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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Los Angeles Galaxy 's David Beckham suffered a groin injury on a miserable night for Bruce Arena 's team , as they were beaten 3-0 by FC Dallas in Major League Soccer 's -LRB- MLS -RRB- Western Conference final on Sunday . Beckham , who only recently returned from an Achilles injury sustained while on loan at Italian giants AC Milan , continued to play despite the strain he picked up early in the match at the Galaxy 's Home Depot Center stadium . A first half goal from Colombian David Ferreira was added to in the second period by strikes from 23-year-old George John and Honduran Marvin Chavez to give Dallas the win , a result which ended Galaxy 's hopes of winning a third MLS cup . `` It 's just disappointing we 've gone out the way we 've gone out , '' Beckham told the league 's official website . '' -LSB- In the -RSB- first two minutes , I pulled my abductor . It wore off a little , but obviously had nothing to do with our loss . '' Former U.S. national team coach Arena admitted he was aware of the injury and had considered substituting the 35-year-old , but he decided against it and went on to praise the attitude of his star player . `` We saw in the very beginning of the game probably 15 minutes in , he had a problem . He hung in there , '' said Arena . `` If we have all of our players with his kind of character and commitment , we would continue to do well . '' Team-captain Landon Donovan revealed the former Real Madrid midfielder has been playing through the pain barrier for sometime . `` He has n't been at full strength since he 's been back . When you come back that quickly at that age from an Achilles injury , there are going to be residual effects . `` My hat 's off to him . He played through a lot of pain those last few weeks , more than you guys know , but he 's a competitor and he wants to keep going . '' Beckham 's earlier ankle injury destroyed his dreams of playing for England in the 2010 World Cup , but he has played the full 90 minutes in four of Los Angeles ' last five games since his return to the team . Dallas will now compete in the final championship game -- the decider for the MLS title -- against Colorado Rapids , who beat San Jose Earthquakes 1-0 in the Eastern Conference final thanks to a goal from Kosuke Kimura . The last game of the MLS season will take place on November 21 at Toronto 's BMO Field .
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David Beckham picked up a groin strain in the MLS Western Conference final on Sunday . Los Angeles Galaxy lost the match 3-0 to FC Dallas at the Home Depot Center stadium . FC Dallas will play Colorado Rapids in the MLS Championship game on November 21 .
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Los Angeles , California -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The judge overseeing the Mel Gibson child custody case ordered a probe into the leak of sealed court documents published on celebrity news website TMZ , a lawyer in the case said . The confidential documents `` were stolen probably from the court '' and the leaker `` got paid a good deal of money , '' said Martin Garbus , an attorney for Gibson 's ex-girlfriend , Oksana Grigorieva . Grigorieva and Garbus discussed the leaks in an interview scheduled to air Wednesday night on CNN 's `` Larry King Live . '' `` It 's medical documents , declarations , court opinions , transcripts , everything it seems , '' Garbus told King . TMZ has published sworn statements from Gibson , Grigorieva and another witness in the court fight over custody of 1-year-old Lucia . `` They say over 2,000 pages of documents were leaked and the district attorney 's office has started an investigation , '' Garbus said . A spokewoman for the Los Angeles district attorney said Tuesday that she was not aware of an investigation . TMZ 's spokeswoman declined to comment on the report of the investigation or the source of the documents . Lawyers involved in the case had copies , but Garbus suggested the leaked papers likely `` came out of the courthouse . '' `` Whoever took the files from the courthouse -- it 's 2,000 pages -- certainly got paid a good deal of money , '' Garbus said . The judge ordered the probe on Friday , Garbus said . A lawyer for Gibson declined to comment , but a publicist for Grigorieva said the leaks did not come from her side . `` It could be quite terrible because this case could turn into a gossip story , and swayed from what 's important here , '' Grigorieva said . `` It 's domestic violence and Lucia at stake . '' She has accused Gibson of domestic violence during their breakup earlier this year , while he accused her of extorting him with tapes she secretly made of their arguments . The Los Angeles County Sheriff 's Department is investigating both accusations . In another development , Grigorieva 's family lawyer , Alan Shifman , stepped aside and has been replaced by Los Angeles attorney Ronald Litz , her publicist confirmed . Gibson and Grigorieva are both scheduled to return to court on Monday .
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NEW : TMZ declines to comment on documents ' source . TMZ published confidential court files in the Gibson child custody case . Gibson 's ex-girlfriend and her lawyer discussed the leaks with CNN 's Larry King . Oksana Grigorieva 's full interview will air on `` Larry King Live '' Wednesday night .
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Los Angeles -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor 's right leg was amputated Friday because of a large , deep lesion that proved resistant to antibiotics , her surgeon said . `` She seemed to tolerate it well , although she 's in a somewhat frail condition , '' Dr. David Rigberg said . Doctors have been treating Gabor , 93 , at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center for two weeks without success , leading to Friday 's amputation of her right leg above the knee , Rigberg said . `` We 're guarded in our opinion on how she 's going to do overall , '' Rigberg said . `` She did n't come in from home in very good health , so it 's difficult for me to predict how long she 's going to be here . '' Husband Prince Frederic Von Anhalt said he did not tell Gabor she was being taken to surgery for an amputation . `` Eventually , she will feel it , and then she will ask me and at that moment I do n't even want to think about it , '' he said . Gabor 's only child , daughter Francesca Hilton , complained that doctors had been ordered by Von Anhalt not to talk to her or let her see her mother . Hilton has maintained a strained relationship with Von Anhalt , Gabor 's ninth and current husband of 23 years . In November , Gabor was hospitalized for a swollen leg , her husband said at the time . Paramedics initially suspected Gabor suffered from a blood clot in her left leg , but an emergency room doctor at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center later determined she had an infection , according to Von Anhalt . Gabor has been frail and `` pretty much confined to a wheelchair '' since a 2002 car accident , Von Anhalt has said . The crash happened when the car in which she was riding with her hairdresser slammed into a light pole on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles . She had hip replacement surgery last year after she suffered a fall in her home . The Hungarian-born actress , the second of the three celebrated Gabor sisters , is most famous for her many marriages . Among her husbands was Oscar-winning actor George Sanders .
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Gabor 's right leg was amputated above the knee . The 93-year-old actress `` seemed to tolerate it well '' Doctors are `` guarded '' about Gabor 's recovery . Gabor 's daughter said doctors are not talking to her .
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Tampa , Florida -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- A campaign aide to Florida gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink has been removed after the Democratic nominee was sent a text message during a televised debate -- in violation of the rules that the candidates agreed to . Sink 's campaign did not name the advisor . But a campaign spokesman confirmed it was Brian May , who signed the rules agreement before the Monday evening debate . The incident took place at the CNN/St . Petersburg Times Florida gubernatorial debate when Sink 's make-up artist delivered a two-sentence message on a cell phone during a break . Republican nominee Rick Scott , who was sitting next to Sink in the nationally televised debate , noticed the violation and notified a CNN official . The CNN official approached the make-up artist and Sink , and confiscated the cell phone . The message read : `` The attorney who -LSB- w -RSB- on the Sykes suit said alex sink did nothing wrong . Tell not to let him keep talking about her . '' After the debate , the Sink campaign released a statement from the candidate announcing that the advisor who sent the message has been removed from the campaign . `` After the debate tonight , one of my campaign advisors admitted he tried to communicate with me during one of the breaks , '' Sink said . `` While he told me it was out of anger with Rick Scott 's repeated distortion of facts , it was a foolish thing to do . It violated a debate agreement and I immediately removed him from the campaign . '' Earlier in the day , officials with both campaigns signed a statement that agreed , among other things , that no notes would be allowed . `` There will be no opening and closing statements , no notes and no props on stage , '' read the statement . `` Candidates will be provided water , notepad and pen . '' CNN did not allow campaign aides to accompany the candidates backstage , but Sink and Scott were permitted to use their own make-up artists during the debate . On the air after the commercial break , Scott pointed out the breach . `` First Alex , you say you always follow the rules , '' he said . `` The rule was no one was supposed to give us messages during the break , and your campaign did with an iPad or an iPod . '' For the record , the device Sink read from was neither an iPad nor an iPhone but a Droid smartphone .
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During a break , Sink is shown a text message from an aide . Sink campaign says the sender was angry at Scott 's `` distortion of facts '' Debate rules say no notes are allowed . The incident takes place during the CNN/St . Petersburg Times televised debate .
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TOKYO , Japan -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Given the magnitude of Japan 's recession , it should perhaps come as little surprise that the fantasy-obsessed animation industry has received a hard dose of reality . Nobuki Mitani is an `` in-between '' animator -- one of the lowest paid positions in animation . Yasuo Yamaguchi , executive director of the Association of Japanese Animators , said the industry has been rocked by the country 's deepest recession since World War II . `` The spread of free Internet downloading is having a deadly effect , '' he said . Japanese animation is roughly a $ 2 billion-a-year industry . Revenues peaked in 2006 but have since fallen off , as lower advertising revenues lead to fewer new programs . Yamaguchi said the animation industry is important to Japan 's economy and that the government should be helping it through these tough times with subsidies . Watch CNN 's Morgan Neill report on anime '' Unlike some big screen animated features from the United States that rely almost completely on computer animation , in Japan , almost all features are drawn by hand -- a labor-intensive craft practiced by thousands of young artists each year . For the last six years , Nobuki Mitani , has been working as an `` in-between '' animator -- filling in the cells between `` key '' animations . It is one of the lowest paid positions in the animation hierarchy . Many of these entry-level jobs have been outsourced to the Philippines and South Korea in recent years . Mitani , 27 , said the hours are long , and the pay is low -- about $ 800 a month . `` Every day I work about 10 to 12 hours , '' he said . `` Often , we work on Saturday , and if it 's busy , we work Sunday , too . '' In Tokyo , the world 's most expensive city , that means living in cramped conditions . Mitani lives in a tiny one-room apartment with no air conditioning . In summer , the room is sweltering . `` I try not to drink water , '' he said , `` to control the sweating . '' He has a shared sink at the end of the hall where he can wash his hands and face , but to bathe he has to go to a public bath . At the Tokyo Animation Institute , the classrooms are filled with students honing the craft , faces close to their sheets of paper , the only sound a hum from the electric pencil sharpener . The school 's director , Yosuke Shimizu , said he knows many of his graduates will quit their first jobs after just months . `` Within half a year , some will take freelance jobs , some will take a key drawing job , and some will become sketch directors . Those who are good enough never complain about how hard the job is , '' he said . At Toei Animation Studios , conditions are better for the animators than in smaller studios . Toei has produced countless successes over the years , including the `` Dragonball '' series and the ongoing favorite `` One Piece . '' But even here animation is an intense , demanding job . Naotoshi Shida has been working at Toei for 25 years . He said it takes much more than just a love of drawing to succeed . `` If someone is thinking of doing this just because they love drawing , that 's called a hobby . They 'd better think of doing something else . ''
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- A disastrous blunder by England goalkeeper Robert Green cost his side victory as they drew 1-1 with the United States in their Group C opener in Rustenburg on Saturday night . England were leading 1-0 through a fourth minute Steven Gerrard goal approaching halftime when Clint Dempsey sent in a weak shot from just outside the penalty area . Maradona 's Argentina beat Nigeria . It appeared to be a routine save for Green but astonishingly he let the ball slip through his grasp and despite a despairing dive saw it trickle into the net . England captain Gerrard gave his side a dream start after he latched on to a neat pass from Emile Heskey to beat Tim Howard in the U.S. goal with ease . Fabio Capello 's men were holding onto their lead comfortably enough , aside from a scare when Jozy Altidore connected with a Landon Donovan cross to send his header wide , until the fortunate 40th minute equalizer . The second half saw England press for the winner and Heskey was sent clear by Aaron Lennon but shot straight at Howard . Wayne Rooney also sent a shot narrowly wide and cleverly set up substitute Shaun Wright-Phillips for a chance from the left side of the penalty area which he sent straight at Howard . But English hearts were in their mouths as Altidore outpaced Jamie Carragher , who came on for the injured Ledley King at halftime , and bore down on goal . This time Green came to the rescue , parrying his effort against the post to partially redeem himself for an error which will live long in the memory . There was no masking the disappointment in the England camp at the final whistle . Catch up with CNN 's twitter.buzz . `` The idea tonight was to win the game , but unfortunately we have let a poor goal in and we could n't go on and get the winner , '' Gerrard told ITV Sport . `` The target now has got to be seven points . '' England 's next game is against Algeria in Cape Town on Friday with the United States taking on Slovenia in Johannesburg . Capello would not confirm if he will stand by Green for a game which now takes on added significance . `` Sometimes a forward misses a goal and sometimes the keeper makes a mistake , this is football . The second half he played very well , '' said the Italian .
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England and United States draw 1-1 in their Group C opener in Rustenburg . Steven Gerrard gives England the lead after only four minutes . A goalkeeping error by Robert Green allows Clint Dempsey to equalize for U.S.
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- With only 100 days before the kick-off of the first World Cup to be staged in Africa , the host country 's officials are confident that the footballing showpiece will be a success . South Africa 's Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe told guests at a 100 Day Banquet in Durban to begin the countdown that his nation is ready to welcome the 32 competing teams and their supporters . Sepp Blatter , the president of world soccer 's ruling body FIFA , was also present at the gala dinner . `` As we mark 100 days to the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup , we do so with immense pride , '' Motlanthe said in a speech quoted on FIFA 's Web site on Tuesday . Have your say on the World Cup . Click here to become a CNN Super Fan . `` We are proud because , in many respects , we are able to pronounce ourselves ready to welcome the world three months ahead of schedule . `` We have gathered here to begin a countdown to the greatest football tournament on earth . `` On behalf of the Republic of South Africa , I wish to extend our gratitude to all the men and women who have worked on the World Cup project and those who are still working on the last phase of our preparations . '' When the tournament was handed to South Africa in 2004 , many critics expressed doubts that sufficient infrastructure would be put in place to make such a huge undertaking possible . FIFA was quick to deny rumors that there was a back-up plan should South Africa not be ready for 2010 , but a strike by construction workers in 2009 over pay led to more fears that the stadia would not be completed in time for this year 's June 11 kick-off . However , the chairman of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee South Africa , Dr Irvin Khoza , said that the tournament was now almost a reality . `` When the countdown started there were 2,218 days -- we did not count in years and months . But when you arrive at 100 days it is the last three-digit number on the countdown , '' he said on FIFA 's Web site . `` It is within this time period when people start applying for their leave , plan for their travel and even pay . People no longer say they are going to South Africa . They say ' I am flying to Durban , on this airline and staying in this hotel . ' `` I would like to thank our people . Together , as South Africans and Africans , we have faced doubters and skeptics , we have faced critics and opponents . `` We have heard people say we can not finish stadiums . We have heard people say we can not provide safety and security . We have heard people say we can not host the FIFA World Cup . `` Today , 100 days before the opening match , I ask you to recall the words of US President , Barack Obama . Can we stage an outstanding World Cup in Africa ? Yes we can , we are waiting and we are ready . ''
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Only 100 days before the kick-off of the first World Cup to be staged in Africa . Officials of host country South Africa are confident that the tournament will be a success . A banquet in Durban kicked off the countdown to the start of the showpiece on June 11 . South Africa 's deputy president insists the nation is ready to welcome the soccer world .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Manchester United returned to the top of English Premier League with a 5-0 crushing of crisis club Portsmouth on Saturday , while Liverpool kept their Champions League bid on track with a 1-0 victory in the derby against Everton . United went one point clear of Chelsea , who host third-placed Arsenal on Sunday , and Liverpool climbed into fourth despite having a man sent off . Sixth-placed Manchester City could have joined Liverpool on 44 points but suffered a shock 2-1 defeat at Hull City , who moved out of the relegation zone . Tottenham were unable to reclaim fourth place after being held 0-0 at home by fellow European hopefuls Aston Villa in the late match . Portsmouth 's season went from bad to worse at Old Trafford to end a week that saw Hong Kong-based businessman Balram Chainrai become the club 's fourth owner in six months ahead of a winding-up hearing due to tax debts next Wednesday . England striker Wayne Rooney put United ahead in the 40th minute with his 23rd league goal this season with a header from Darren Fletcher 's cross , then Nani 's close-range effort was deflected off Anthony Vanden Borre , who was credited with an own-goal , onto goalkeeper David James and into the net just before halftime . It was 3-0 after 59 minutes as Portsmouth 's Richard Hughes deflected a shot by Michael Carrick past James , then United striker Dimitar Berbatov fired in a low effort three minutes later . The visitors then conceded a third own-goal in the 69th minute as Mark Wilson diverted Patrice Evra 's cross into his own net to leave Portsmouth six points adrift of second-bottom Wolverhampton Wanderers , who play Midlands rivals Birmingham on Sunday . Liverpool played for 55 minutes with 10 men against Everton after Greek defender Sotirios Kyrgiakos was sent off for a two-footed tackle on Marouane Fellaini , but claimed a vital home victory thanks to Dirk Kuyt 's 50th goal for the Merseyside club . The Dutch striker headed home Steven Gerrard 's corner from close range in the 55th minute , and Everton struggled to break down their rivals ' determined defense before also being reduced to 10 men when South Africa midfielder Steven Pienaar received his second booking in time added on . Manchester City welcomed back England defender Wayne Bridge for his first outing in two months following injury -- and also since tabloid revelations which on Friday saw Chelsea 's John Terry stripped of the national captaincy due to an alleged affair he had with his ex-teammate 's former partner . But it was Hull , who drew 1-1 with Chelsea on Tuesday , who took the lead in the 31st minute when Jozy Altidore scored his first league goal . The United States striker , whose relatives were affected by the Haiti earthquake , curled in a fine shot after a layoff by fellow frontman Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink , whose fellow Dutchman George Boateng made it 2-0 nine minutes after halftime with a 25-yard volley from half-cleared corner . Roberto Mancini 's City pulled one back five minutes when Emmanuel Adebayor scored from close range after a corner by Stephen Ireland , but the visitors could not equalize despite bringing on new signing Patrick Vieira for his debut . Tottenham could not find a way past Aston Villa 's veteran American goalkeeper Brad Friedel , who pulled off a string of fine saves . The hosts appealed in vain for a late penalty when midweek hat-trick hero Jermain Defoe was brought down by Villa midfielder Stiliyan Petrov , then his strike partner Peter Crouch missed with a back-heeled attempt from close range in time added on . Fulham consolidated 10th place with a 0-0 draw at Bolton , who were left a point above the relegation zone after having a late header by captain Kevin Davies ruled out for a push on Brede Hangeland . Stoke leapfrogged Blackburn into 11th place with a crushing 3-0 win over the visitors in manager Tony Pulis 's 300th match in charge of the club . Goals from full-back Danny Higginbotham and striker Mamady Sidibe made it 2-0 at halftime , then Blackburn defender Christopher Samba was sent off for a second yellow card before Matthew Etherington wrapped up victory on 67 minutes . The match was marred by the news that a man , reportedly a Blackburn fan , was taken to hospital in a critical condition with a head injury after being found unconscious at the start of the second half . Police are investigating the matter . Sunderland remained 13th after coming from behind to draw 1-1 with Wigan , who led through Mohamed Diame before Kenywne Jones headed home on 64 to give manager Steve Bruce a point against his former club . Sunderland , however , have not won in 11 games while Wigan -- knocked out of the FA Cup by fourth division Notts County in midweek -- are just two points above the drop zone . Burnley moved out of the bottom three with a 2-1 win at home to fellow strugglers West Ham to give manager Brian Laws his first victory since taking charge and the club 's first in 13 league outings . Loan striker David Nugent opened the scoring before debutant defender Danny Fox doubled the lead , while substitute Ilan pulled one back for West Ham late on after fellow new signing Mido hit the post .
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Manchester United return to top of English Premier League with 5-0 crushing of Portsmouth . United go one point clear of Chelsea , who host third-placed Arsenal on Sunday . Liverpool move into fourth place after beating Everton 1-0 despite having man sent off . Tottenham left in fifth place after drawing 0-0 at home to Aston Villa in late match .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- My every-other-month dinner-and-discussion group met the other night . After a plentiful potluck meal , we got down to the topic designated for the evening : `` If you could solve any issue or problem in your lifetime , what would it be ? '' Less than two weeks after the election , most of the issues raised were political , ranging from redistricting reform to civility in the political process . When it was my turn , I offered up a different fare : ending childhood hunger in the United States . -LRB- In truth , I 'd like to see peace in the Middle East , but thought I 'd be reasonable . -RRB- . The government estimates that as many as 17 million children face `` food insecurity '' -LRB- aka hunger -RRB- . `` Poverty does devastating things to children , '' said Andy Mullins Jr. , co-director of the Mississippi Teacher Corps and associate professor of leadership and counselor education at the University of Mississippi . Teachers will tell you that children who come to school hungry have more difficulty learning . And if education is key to breaking out of poverty , these children are at a disadvantage . Around Thanksgiving -- amid advertising images of tables laden with food -- you can expect the news media to focus attention on those for whom feeding themselves or their families is difficult . In this economy -- one showing the barest hints of a recovery -- more and more people find themselves in this situation . Consider these examples from around the country : . The Community Food Pantry in Merrill , Wisconsin , has distributed 12 percent more food this year than last , according to Denis McCarthy , pantry manager . Mary Louise Verkest , executive assistant for the Hope pantry , said that as the group prepares for the winter it needs residents to come forward with food drives and donations . `` We would not be able to provide the resources and support to the community without the community , '' she said . Texas food banks distributed nearly 43 million pounds of food in the second quarter of 2010 , 14 percent more than in the same period last year . Nearly 11 percent more Texans lived in poverty last year than the year before , including more than one of every four under age 18 . `` If these numbers do n't convey a sense of urgency , I do n't know what will , '' said J.C. Dwyer , state policy director of the Texas Food Bank Network . In Libertyville , Illinois , there are people who go to the township pantry on Tuesdays and to the pantry at the St. Joseph 's Church Formation Center on Mondays and Thursdays . `` It 's very practical , because whatever food we give them wo n't last more than a few days , '' said Jim King at First Presbyterian Church , which operates a monthly pantry . `` I think people are stretched , '' social worker Linda Blatnik said . `` Their unemployment is running out . More seniors are n't getting an increase in their Social Security . '' In Gila County , Arizona , `` Just about everyone is out of money and out of food , '' said Su Hubenthal , with the Payson St. Vincent de Paul Food Bank . Local food banks eked through last winter and an increase in poverty and families losing their health insurance has compounded the problems . Last year , demand at the food bank jumped by about 50 percent and it has n't declined since , said Hubenthal . `` It just has n't gone down . '' One in six people in the Tampa Bay area of Florida received some form of emergency food assistance in 2009 , up 27 percent from 2006 . The 627 area nonprofits that provide food aid are feeling a strain . `` It 's been a real eye opener into how quickly we 're losing ground , '' said Pat Rogers , director of Feeding America Tampa Bay , a food bank serving pantries and social service agencies . In a survey conducted for the Hormel Foods Corp. by Opinion Research Corp. -LRB- which also is CNN 's polling partner -RRB- more than one-quarter of those responding said that in the past year they or someone they know had to choose between providing food for their family or paying their bills . One in 10 said they personally went to bed hungry at least once in the past year . `` It is disheartening to see most Americans feel the hunger problem in the U.S. will not be solved in the next 20 years , '' Jean Kinsey , a professor emeritus of applied economics at the University of Minnesota and director emeritus of The Food Industry Center , said in a release accompanying the study . That 's not an encouraging outlook . What can you do ? Volunteer at a local food bank or pantry . Personal involvement will help you understand the magnitude of the problem and you 'll feel like you 're doing your part to help . Donate money or food items . Individual contributions are as important as those from big charities and grocery chains . And as you enjoy your Thanksgiving meal , remember that not everyone will sit down to a table laden with food and give thanks for their good fortune . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Schechter .
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The government estimates 17 million U.S. children face hunger . Community food pantries need more donations to meet winter needs . Food relief programs are distributing more food this year than last year . Most Americans do n't think the hunger problem will be solved in 20 years .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Michael Vick , the comeback story like no other -- the nation 's largest ongoing rehabilitation project not named Sheen -- makes his postseason splash Sunday night . A bigger audience means more fans than ever face this question : Can I embrace the Philadelphia quarterback 's singular talents without getting the blood of past sins on me ? It 's been more than 19 months since Vick 's release from federal prison in Leavenworth , Kansas , on his dogfighting conviction . And still the debate over his crime and his place back at the forefront of the NFL achieves spectacular extremes . Within two days in late December , the president of the United States congratulated Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie for giving Vick a second chance while a Fox News analyst suggested that Vick should have been executed for his crime . But this process of redemption also works itself out quietly , modestly , one oil change at a time . A Nissan dealer in Woodbury , New Jersey , has a played a small role in reintroducing Vick to the segment of society that does n't kill dogs for sport . Thomas McMenamin , executive manager of the dealership , was the first businessman to sign the ex-con QB to an endorsement deal . Before the feds started digging around Vick 's Bad Newz Kennels in Virginia , he was the hottest property in the league , making a reported $ 7 million a year in endorsements . Afterward , he was an untouchable . Now , for a series of promotional appearances and one television spot , he reportedly is receiving the free use of a $ 50,000 Nissan Armada . `` When we first met , he was n't ashamed to admit that he did wrong and was wrong , '' McMenamin said . Would you buy a car from Michael Vick ? McMenamin said the response has been mostly positive . `` We have gotten some phone calls from people saying , ` We 'll never buy a car from you again , ' but a lot of those came from out of town , from people who would n't buy here anyway . '' To help ease the expected criticism , the dealership struck a promotional arrangement in which it would donate to the local humane society for every car sold until the end of January . McMenamin estimates the total should amount to $ 10,000 . One episode last month struck the manager as telling . A customer came to him irate over how long it had taken the service department to perform a simple oil change . He left dramatically , vowing never to return . The next day , McMenamin 's phone rang . It was the same disaffected customer . He had seen the Vick commercial that night . `` You gave Michael Vick a second chance , and I 'm willing to give your store a second chance '' are the words McMenamin remembers . Sport has always had its gamblers and rogues , its cheats and addicts . In one Super Bowl night in Atlanta , Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis became part of a double murder case -LRB- he eventually pleaded to misdemeanor obstruction of justice -RRB- . The following year , 2001 , he was the Super Bowl MVP . There 'd be none of the usual failings for Vick , though . Like his skill set of speed , elusiveness and arm strength , his downfall had to be so out of the norm as to challenge belief . He 'd bankroll a dog fighting ring . The cruelty of Vick 's crime was spelled out in unsettling detail in the indictment against him , in passages such as : . `` In or about April 2007 -LRB- Purnell -RRB- Peace , -LRB- Quanis -RRB- Phillips and Vick executed approximately eight dogs that did not perform well in `` testing '' sessions by various methods including hanging , drowning and slamming at least one dog 's body to the ground . '' And the price he paid for his crime was steep : 23 months in prison , three years probation , bankruptcy and great heapings of public scorn . But fans love a good comeback story , and they are quick to grant forgiveness to those who lead them back to the top of the standings . Now , with Vick , they are being asked to process an entirely foreign kind of crime along with a startling kind of ability . It 's like trying to read a Greek tragedy -- in Greek . After serving as a backup with the Eagles in 2009 , Vick took over the starting role early this season . The team had shed its longtime marquee quarterback , Donovan McNabb , with plans of plugging in Kevin Kolb as his successor . But Kolb suffered a concussion , and Vick rediscovered his Vickness . At 30 , he appeared to be a star at peak brightness . Against Washington in November , he put on such a show -- passing for four touchdowns and rushing for two others -- that the Hall of Fame requested his jersey . He threw for more than 300 yards three times in a month . -LRB- During six seasons in Atlanta , he had done that only twice . -RRB- Throwing for a career-high 21 touchdowns , with only six interceptions , he was 8-3 as an Eagles starter and led them to a division title . On Sunday , versus Green Bay , Vick returns to the site of his last playoff appearance , this time leading the home team at Philadelphia 's Lincoln Financial Field . It has been seven eventful years since he last played the postseason . And that was a largely forgettable performance , the Atlanta Falcons losing in the 2003 NFC championship by 17 and their quarterback rendered practically invisible . He enters this game with an injured leg , and his last start , a loss to Minnesota , was his least productive of the season . But it 's so much more than the numbers with Vick ; it 's how he amasses them . Dan Reeves , Vick 's first coach in Atlanta and an unabashed supporter , is an old-school , understated football lifer . But on the subject of Vick , he raves : . '' -LRB- Vick 's -RRB- just exciting . I love what Peyton Manning and Drew Brees and Tom Brady do . But it 's different . They are great at what they do ; I love to watch them , but Mike takes your breath away . `` You watch him and you say , ` How did he get away from that guy ; how did he make that deep throw ; how did he throw across his body like that ? ' '' By all accounts , Vick has dedicated himself to the craft of his position as never before . In interviews now , he sounds markedly more clear-headed than during his Atlanta days . He has struck all the right notes thus far this season , including dedicating himself to regular appearances on behalf of the anti-dog fighting campaign of the Humane Society of the United States . That cause has benefited even from those wishing Vick ill . A pair of Green Bay fans this season pledged $ 10 to the Humane Society for every time the quarterback was sacked . The total currently stands at $ 340 . NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told the Philadelphia Inquirer , `` This young man has turned his life around , and he 's going to contribute . '' While Vick never can outrun his past , there are signs that he has begun to at least give it a good race . Nowhere has the Vick conversation been more divisive than in Atlanta , where he was the franchise 's No. 1 overall draft pick in 2001 . His rise lifted the Falcons profile nationally and titillated the fan base like no other player , including Deion Sanders . And his fall absolutely laid waste to the franchise for two seasons . Chris Dimino , co-host of morning sports talk on Atlanta 's 790 The Fan , has found himself moderating the debate over Vick 's standing among Falcons fans . It often swings between vitriol and blind adoration , seeming to break down frequently along racial lines . `` I never thought I 'd see the light at the end of that tunnel . But I do sense that there is a turn -LRB- in the tone of the conversation -RRB- , '' Dimino said . `` Most people now are playing the good-for-him , give-him-a-second-chance card , '' he added . `` He was stupidity personified . He paid the price ; now let 's move on . People like a redemption story . `` Of course , if the Falcons were n't 13-3 now , there might be a heck of a lot more venom than there is now . '' Vick 's past and present teams may be on a collision course for an NFC Championship game meeting in Atlanta , at which time the old scab will be ripped clean off . Deciding on how to deal with Vick here at center stage would be so much easier if only there were a porthole to his soul , allowing a peek at what 's really in there . How can any fan know ? Vick 's road to fan acceptance is the same one that will take him to a new contract ; his two-year deal -LRB- which with bonuses and incentives have earned him a reported $ 7 million -RRB- runs out this season . He seems to realize the practical truth that what he does is going to amount to much more than what he utters . He recently told Sports Illustrated , `` I do n't think me saying the right thing is going to get me a new deal . It 's all about my play . It 's all about how you conduct yourself as you play well . I do n't have to put on a front around anybody . '' The idea that people can change -- that 's the notion Wayne Pacelle 's life is built around . `` If it was my belief that people were static , I do n't think I could come to work every day , '' says the president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States . Vick is just one of a number of former dog fighters and animal abusers that Pacelle 's group has enlisted as spokesmen against cruelty . Vick has made a dozen appearances in major cities in the East , attempting to reach youngsters who could be lured into the practice of pitting dogs against each other in back alleys and abandoned buildings , so-called `` street fighting . '' Pacelle said he has been asked a thousand times whether he believes Vick is sincere . Asked for the 1,001 st time , he said , `` I do n't get into that . '' All he knows for sure is that he has seen Vick speak to hundreds of youngsters who , because of the quarterback 's status , `` sit and listen in rapt attention . '' Will the head of the Humane Society be rooting for the one-time dog fighter this weekend ? Pacelle is one of the very few who remain mute on that subject .
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Philadelphia Eagles quarterback makes his NFL postseason splash Sunday . It 's been 19 months since his release from prison on dog fighting conviction . Fans love a good comeback story , often forgive those who lead them back to top .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- An American relief worker jailed in Haiti under suspicion of kidnapping a 15-month-old boy has been released , the man told CNN Wednesday . `` As soon as they said I was being released I was at first shocked and could n't believe it because it was already dark and normally nothing happens after sun goes down around there , '' Paul Waggoner , who had been held since mid-December in Port-au-Prince , said in an interview . Waggoner was being transported Wednesday to a safe location to receive medical attention , according to a statement from Materials Management Relief Corps , a group that he co-founded . `` Waggoner spent 18 harrowing days incarcerated in Haiti , accused of kidnapping a child despite undeniable evidence that the child in question had died at Haitian Community Hospital last February , '' the group said in a statement . `` No charges were brought against Waggoner ... even though he was held in the notoriously dangerous penitentiary for two weeks , '' the statement said . Waggoner had been held in the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince . Interviewed by phone from an undisclosed location on Wednesday , Waggoner said a judge had found `` contradictions '' in statements from the boy 's father . Waggoner said the boy 's parents had been trying to extort him and that `` it was a matter of a father and a mother trying to make a dime off of their kid . '' A Haitian judge had concluded that sufficient evidence existed to hold Waggoner while investigators evaluated the father 's complaint that the American kidnapped his critically-ill son from a hospital , according to Jon Piechowski , a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Haiti . The Materials Management Relief Corps is a humanitarian organization that seeks to provide logistical support to medical workers in Haiti , where a major earthquake caused extensive damage in January . According to the group 's website , Waggoner lives in Nantucket , Massachusetts . Waggoner was working at the Haitian Community Hospital in Petionville in February when a Haitian man sought treatment for his 15-month-old son . Accounts differ as to what happened next , but the father believes the child survived and that Waggoner kidnapped him , according to Piechowski . Waggoner 's supporters , including two physicians , have said the child died , and that his body was cremated because the father would not claim the remains . Dr. Kenneth Adams , a volunteer physician on staff at the Haitian Community Hospital , said he was present when the child 's father returned to see his son and `` witnessed as the father looked at the baby for several minutes , waiting for the baby to breathe . '' The man took pictures with the deceased baby before he left , Adams said . The father filed a complaint against Waggoner in March . Piechowski said Waggoner left Haiti without answering the accusations and was arrested December 12 after returning to the country . One account provided by supporters says the father handed Waggoner the child at the hospital . Another says Waggoner may have transported the child to the hospital . Regardless , Waggoner had nothing to do with the child 's care , according to his supporters . `` I was there through the whole thing , and what kills me is that Paul basically had nothing to do with the whole situation , '' said Jeff Quinlan , who said he was working as director of security at the hospital when the child arrived . Quinlan said he told the father that the boy had died and instructed him to return within 24 hours to take the body . But he said the father instead returned with a `` witch doctor '' claiming the child was still alive . Quinlan and Waggoner 's organization said a doctor who treated the boy has signed an affidavit confirming that the child died , saying that the father had viewed the body and that he had declined to claim the remains because he did not have resources to bury the child . Quinlan said earlier that he believed Haitian authorities were trying to extort money from Waggoner . A friend of Waggoner 's recently expressed concern that the relief worker would face danger upon being released . `` I think the biggest concern I 've got for his safety once he 's out of prison , '' said Paul Sebring , a fellow aid worker , `` is that , you know , people surrounding this case may not be happy with the ruling that 's happened and may come after him in some sense . '' But Waggoner said Wednesday that he hopes to do more aid work in Haiti . `` I would n't say that anybody needs to have second thoughts about coming down here , '' he said . `` If any aid workers want to do work in Haiti they should absolutely do it . The people here absolutely need it . '' The United States was keeping close watch on the case , the State Department has said , but it was unclear whether officials were working for Waggoner 's release . `` We have monitored his court appearances and continue to track the case closely , '' said P.J. Crowley , a spokesman for the State Department , said earlier this week .
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Paul Waggoner had been held for 18 days in Port-au-Prince . He was jailed on suspicion of kidnapping a 15-month-old boy . Waggoner says boy 's parents were trying to extort him . He says he wants to do more aid work in Haiti .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- About 50 Central American immigrants were kidnapped by gunmen earlier this month from a train crossing through Mexico , a Salvadoran official told CNN en Español Wednesday . The government of Mexico has not confirmed or denied the incident . The incident has been mired in mystery since a priest who runs a shelter for immigrants first reported the story this week . He came forward after a group of immigrants who escaped from their would-be captors arrived and said that the incident took place December 16 in the town of Chahuites , in the state of Oaxaca near the border with Guatemala . Juan Jose Garcia , El Salvador 's vice minister for Salvadorans abroad , said his government can confirm that the mass kidnapping happened as the survivors state . He said about 12 men armed with assault rifles and machetes forced the migrants off the train and divided them into two groups of about 25 each . Then they were taken to an unknown location , he said . But the Mexican government has not officially confirmed the incident happened . Mexican officials said that the country 's National Migration Institute carried out an operation in the same area on the same night and noted that the train company did not report its train being delayed or stopped in the area . `` We can not confirm it or deny it . We are acting on the complaint we received , '' Irma Pineiro , Oaxaca state 's cabinet chief , told CNN en Español . The priest who made the story public , Rev. Alejandro Solalinde , said the immigrants he spoke with believed the kidnappers were the Zetas drug cartel . The cartel is also believed behind the killings of 72 migrants in northern Mexico in August .
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El Salvador says it has evidence that 50 migrants were kidnapped in Mexico . Mexico has not confirmed the incident , which allegedly occurred in Oaxaca state . A priest who runs a shelter for immigrants first reported the story this week . Priest says immigrants believe kidnappers were with the Zetas drug cartel .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- She hit the big time in the 1980 's with Eurythmics and found huge success as a solo artist with her 1992 album `` Diva '' , but for singer Annie Lennox , being able to express her passion has always been the motivating factor in whatever she 's done . Annie Lennox will continue to SING with her AIDS awareness charity . As a result her musical career has taken a back seat to her political activism and charity work in recent years ; most notably with SING her AIDS awareness in Africa charity , as well as working with Amnesty , Save the Children and as a UNICEF ambassador . Yet the 54-year-old maintains that she 'll always keep singing as well as working on the other things that she feels passionate about . `` I 'm a multi-tasker . I have to do a lot of things at once . I love music . And I want to keep making music . I hope that I 'll always be a music-maker and I 'll always be an activist , '' she told CNN in Hong Kong . Growing up in Aberdeen , Scotland , Lennox found enormous success with Eurythmics and the 1983 album `` Sweet Dreams '' and single of the same name . It catapulted her to international success and stardom , something she had always wanted , but at first found difficult to adjust to . `` We were really on a whole kind of roller coaster with -LSB- Eurythmics -RSB- , which on the one hand I was very grateful for , and on the other hand , it sort of sucked out your life , any sort of privacy , '' she said . `` Just the ability to be anonymous which I absolutely really value . I love to just to be mixing with people and not have to be the one person in the room with the spotlight and the heads all turning . So that was a little bit hard to adapt to ... I might as well have a neon light for a head . '' She 's sold over 80 million records during a career that has spanned four decades , which she credits to hard graft fueled by an unending passion for music . `` The glamour side to it is what we see as the end result . But all the rest of it is hard work and dedication . And it 's not easy always , you have to be very focused . And you have to be really , really motivated to do it . You have to have a kind of yearning , a passion for that . `` I was never thinking , ` Oh , I 'm in this for the long haul . ' I just think as I 'm still thinking , I want to have a life where I 'm able to do the thing that makes me feel alive . '' Aware of the downsides of a career in music , Lennox also has a greater sense of the perils and pitfall in life , something she has often expressed in her music . `` I have encountered individuals and I 've encountered things in the industry that were vile . Bad things happen everywhere . And the music industry and all that surrounds it , is no exception . '' . Having experienced unscrupulous people in the music industry and been through her own personal upheaval through two failed marriages , Lennox remain passionate , energetic and sanguine . Ultimately , she says , `` its all part of life 's rich tapestry . ''
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Sold over 80 million records in career that has spanned four decades . Found success first with Eurythmics , British band founded with Dave Stewart . Lennox set up SING charity to combat HIV and AIDS in Africa .
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Belfast , Northern Ireland -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The number of properties lacking running water in Northern Ireland has dwindled to fewer than 1,000 , state-funded water company Northern Ireland Water said Sunday . As of Saturday , the number was about 2,600 , the company said . About 45,000 properties may still have limited water supplies Sunday night , compared to 60,000 on Saturday night . The disruption would cut supplies overnight as reservoirs are refilled . Many customers have been without running water for nearly a week , and some said they have not had water supply for more than 10 days . The shortage was blamed on the bursting of several major water pipes in a rapid thaw that followed record low temperatures last week . The company has said a number of pipes burst when the temperature rose from minus 16 to 10 degrees Celsius -LRB- 3 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit -RRB- `` within a matter of hours . '' The number of customers without water stood at 799 on Sunday , the company said , and 276 have a temporary supply . Northern Ireland Water has drawn criticism from government officials , who held an emergency meeting on the situation last week . The company 's interim chairman , Padraic White , said its response to the `` unprecedented situation '' was `` unacceptable . '' `` There remains a considerable demand for water arising from leaks on customers ' private installations , '' the company said in a statement Sunday . `` Throughout this incident , NI Water has consistently reiterated the need for customers to check their premises for any damage to their own private infrastructure and to repair this as soon as possible . Failure to do so simply adds to the water supply problems for other customers . '' The company asked customers to refrain from using garden hoses and washing cars . Some 500 staffers have been working to restore water service to those without supply , and the company was contacting customers in the affected areas to keep them apprised of the situation , Northern Ireland Water said . Company officials have also complained about a lack of investment in the water infrastructure over the years . Reservoir levels in the greater Belfast area remain low , the company said . Schools are expected to resume this week and next , and the company is `` confident there will be very few , if any , schools affected due to interruptions on the main water supply system , '' the statement said . `` However , many schools will have suffered damage to their internal infrastructure and we understand these are currently being located and repaired . '' Northern Ireland Water is working with the Department of Education , and more information on schools was expected . Water restrictions were also continuing in the Republic of Ireland , where local authorities in many areas had to limit supply because of burst pipes after the freeze .
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799 customers remain without water , state-funded company says . Northern Ireland Water has drawn criticism for its handling of the crisis . More disruptions expected Sunday night as reservoirs are filled .
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Belfast , Northern Ireland -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Northern Ireland 's water supply is in a `` precarious position '' after several major water pipes burst , allowing 10 million liters of water to drain from Belfast reservoirs each day , the Northern Ireland Water interim chairman said Friday . The state-funded water company 's response to the `` unprecedented situation '' was `` unacceptable , '' Padraic White said . Tens of thousands of homes and businesses have lost their supply after frozen pipes burst in a rapid thaw that followed record low temperatures last week . Many customers have been without running water since Monday , but some say they have n't had supplies for 10 days . Pipes at the country 's top hospital , the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast , were among those that failed , White said . Water service might not be fully restored until the middle of next week , but even then hundreds of rural homes could still be without water , he said . The water company 's emergency call center was not prepared to handle `` a disaster of this magnitude , '' but communication with customers will be improved , White said . He recommended a full investigation into the company 's problems . Northern Ireland Water has been heavily criticized for its response to the crisis , with some politicians calling for top officials to resign . Chairman White said company executives were not considering resignations , since their focus at the moment is restoring water service . The company said Friday that there had been an improvement in the situation in the past 24 hours and that the number of customers without water was down to around 5,000 . It added , however , that as many as 24,000 customers could experience intermittent disruption to supplies as repairs continue . Northern Ireland Water has blamed the problems on a rapid thaw , with a huge number of pipes bursting after a dramatic change in temperature -- from minus-16 to 10 degrees Celsius -LRB- 3 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit -RRB- `` within a matter of hours . '' Company officials have also complained about a lack of investment in the water infrastructure over the years . The Republic of Ireland has also experienced problems with its water supplies . The government said Thursday night that most parts of the country would see a resumption of service within two days , but restrictions in the capital , Dublin , were expected to remain in place until January 10 .
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NEW : The water pipe to Belfast 's top hospital burst . NEW : Northern Ireland Water 's response to the crisis is `` unacceptable , '' chairman says . Tens of thousands have been without water since Monday . Parts of the water network may not be repaired until next week .
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Belfast , Northern Ireland -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Someone must be held responsible for a `` shambolic '' response to a water crisis that has left thousands without running water , one of Northern Ireland 's top politicians said Thursday . Speaking after an emergency meeting of power-sharing ministers in Belfast , First Minister Peter Robinson said the government water company 's efforts to restore water supplies to tens of thousands of homes was `` shambolic '' and `` ineffective . '' He said a review would now be carried out by ministers and hinted at action against Northern Ireland Water 's top executives . `` People must assess their own position , and of course if people do n't assess their own position the review will look at where responsibility lies and decisions will be taken on the foot of that , '' said Robinson . Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness was also highly critical of the response , calling it `` totally unacceptable behaviour by an arm 's - length body '' . `` We are not prepared to accept this treatment on behalf of citizens , '' he said . '' ... Under no circumstances are we going to stand here and make excuses for a body that has failed so miserably . '' Northern Ireland Water said Thursday it could be early next week before all customers are reconnected . Up to 60,000 homes and businesses are experiencing water disruption , the company said in a written statement Thursday . Of those , 6,000 have lacked running water since Monday . However , on Tuesday some residents reported they had not had water for nine days . `` The numbers on a curtailed supply will vary from between 3,500 to 60,000 at any given time , '' the statement said . `` NI Water will continue to rotate supplies so figures will increase and decrease as this process is continued in order to protect reservoir levels . '' Northern Ireland Water has said the `` unprecedented problems '' were caused by a rapid thaw , with a huge number of pipes bursting after a dramatic change in temperature -- from minus-16 to 10 degrees Celsius -LRB- 3 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit -RRB- `` within a matter of hours . '' Company officials have also complained about a lack of investment in the water infrastructure over the years . The company said it had increased the supply of water to its highest level ever -- from 600 million liters per day to 850 million liters per day -LRB- 158 million gallons to 224 million gallons -RRB- . `` This increase in demand is to a great degree as a result of leakage from bursts on private properties , '' the statement said . Doctors are warning of an increasing public health risk if the water shortages continue . Two hospitals have experienced supply problems . Emergency supplies were being made available at locations across the province , including recreation centers where those without running water were being offered free showers . The Scottish government has sent 160,000 liters -LRB- 42,000 gallons -RRB- of bottled water to Northern Ireland after supplies ran out . Ahead of the meeting of ministers on Thursday , Ulster Unionist Party deputy leader John McCallister described the situation as `` Third World and horrendous . '' He added : `` If the executive at Stormont -LRB- the Belfast government -RRB- is n't able to deal with this , the UK government will have to take over -- that 's how bad things are . '' In the Republic of Ireland , hundreds of thousands had supplies cut off or restricted , again as a result of burst pipes after the thaw . Repair crews worked to fix leaks , and mobile water supplies were being sent to the worst-hit areas . The Irish government said Thursday night most parts of the country would see a resumption of normal water supply within the next two days , but in the capital , Dublin , restrictions were expected to remain in place until January 10 . Irish Minister for the Environment John Gormley said significant progress was being made across the country to deal with water leaks and stoppages . It was also announced restrictions on water supplies were to be eased in most areas Friday night to facilitate New Year 's Eve celebrations .
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Government officials say the government water company failed `` miserably '' Northern Ireland Water says up to 60,000 customers affected . Some have not had running water since before Christmas . It could be next week before crisis is resolved .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- One evening , when I was 24 years old , I heard Dr. Muhammad Yunus speak to a small classroom of Stanford University students . I was not a student at the time , so I crashed the lecture and sat quietly on the steps in the back of the room . What I heard that night changed my life . Dr. Yunus spoke of his journey in creating the Grameen Bank , which provides small loans to the poor . He told us about the incredible success many of Grameen 's clients had achieved , breaking the cycle of poverty in their lives with only a few borrowed dollars and an entrepreneurial spirit . But beyond sharing his story , and beyond explaining the power of microfinance to change people 's lives , Yunus spoke about the poor in a way I 'd never before heard . He described them as hardworking , motivated , intelligent entrepreneurs who had the power to improve their own lives -- not hopeless , desperate , devastated individuals waiting for a donor to make everything better . Watch an interview with Jessica Jackley . Many of my assumptions about poverty , and about my role in helping to alleviate it , were turned upside down . -LRB- A few years after that evening lecture , Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize , honoring their work pioneering modern microfinance . -RRB- . Listening to Yunus speak that night , I was inspired to do something . I wanted to meet hardworking entrepreneurs like the ones he 'd talked about , and to truly understand their stories . A few weeks later , I quit my job at Stanford and boarded a plane to Nairobi , Kenya , to try to do just that . TED.com : Paul Collier on `` the bottom billion '' Over the next few months , I interviewed over a hundred entrepreneurs throughout East Africa who had received $ 100 to start or grow their microenterprises . I formed powerful connections with many of those entrepreneurs , all of whom were working hard every day to lift themselves and others out of poverty -- a seamstress in Kenya who used her business profits to send her daughters to school ; a goat-herder in Uganda who could finally afford mosquito nets for his family ; a farmer in Tanzania who explained proudly how she could now , for the first time , feed her children three meals a day . These dignified individuals showed me how even a simple endeavor could be run with incredible acumen , creativity , and wisdom . It was through their stories of perseverance and optimism that my beliefs about poverty , about empowerment , about entrepreneurship , and about my own path began to shift . I wondered how the world might be different if more people could hear their stories , in detail , one at a time . And I wondered what it would be like to participate in the next chapter of their stories in a way that dignified them , not pitied them . What if a community of people could gather together to lend the next few hundred dollars they needed for their businesses to grow ? My desire to answer these questions inspired the creation of Kiva -LRB- http://www.kiva.org/ -RRB- , the world 's first peer-to-peer microlending website . On Kiva , people can lend as little as $ 25 to specific entrepreneurs and get their money back when the entrepreneur repays . In a little over five years since its founding , Kiva has been one of the fastest-growing social benefit websites in history , facilitating more than $ 170 million in loans across 208 countries . Building on lessons learned at Kiva , I 've now turned my attention back home to focus on serving small business here in the U.S. as co-founder and CEO of ProFounder -LRB- http://www.profounder.com/ -RRB- . ProFounder is a crowd-funding platform for American entrepreneurs to raise investments from their friends , families and communities . An unlimited number of unaccredited investors can invest and choose either to receive a share of the business 's revenues as cash , or redirect them to a nonprofit . TED.com : Andrew Mwenda takes a new look at Africa . Entrepreneurs can create a simple fundraising website including legally compliant investment terms , raise seed capital online , manage their community of supporters , pay investors dividends over time , provide regular updates on their business 's progress , and much more . It is my hope that ProFounder can change the way we support small businesses and start-ups in America . I believe in entrepreneurs . I believe in their ability to make positive change in the world . I want to see a world in which every entrepreneur has access to the resources he or she needs to succeed , and where through the power of supportive communities -- that means you and me -- every resource can be made available . Whether you are a goat-herder in the Great Rift Valley , a tech start-up guru in Silicon Valley , or someone simply eager to see an entrepreneur succeed , I invite you to join me . Invest in an entrepreneur . Become an entrepreneur . There is a new story to be written together . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jessica Jackley .
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Jessica Jackley was inspired by the example of Muhammad Yunus . She says microlending enables people to break free of the cycle of poverty . Jackley : Entrepreneurs have the power to improve their own lives .
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Business Insider is contributing a series of columns to CNN.com that challenge commonly held beliefs about the tech world . -LRB- Business Insider -RRB- -- Google loves to talk about how `` open '' Android , its operating system for mobile devices , is . Especially when it comes to comparisons between Android and Apple 's iPhone , openness is Google 's favorite talking point . But what , exactly , does it even mean that Android is `` open ? '' Google would point to a number of broadly related facts about the OS , but here 's the essential point : Android is `` open '' in that Google distributes its source code under something called the Apache License . Code distributed under an Apache License is free for anyone to use as they wish . Importantly , unlike some open source licenses , the Apache License lets anyone use the code in question as part of proprietary software . That is , if you write something and distribute it for free under the Apache License , I 'm free to tack on some modifications , keep the added code a secret , and charge customers for the whole package . So , while Google likes to say that Android 's openness is about giving the consumer freedom , the real freedom here has nothing to do with consumers . Consumers do n't buy operating systems . They buy phones . Phone manufacturers -- and the mobile carriers with whom they form partnerships -- are free to add code to Android as they see fit before loading it on to their handsets and selling them to you . They 're also free to throw up all sorts of hurdles to make it difficult for you to get rid of their software and install a `` clean '' version of Google 's OS . The changes that handset makers and carriers make to Android are generally bad news for the consumer . Many pre-install shoddy , proprietary software -- `` bloatware '' -- which ca n't be removed , to drive users to their own services . They also cripple phone features . The latest version of Android , for instance , lets you use your phone as a mobile hotspot , allowing you to access the Internet wirelessly from your nearby computer , using the phone 's data connection . Unfortunately , on most phones , that feature is broken by default , and can only be enabled by paying your carrier an extra monthly fee . Google 's response to this is that because many different manufacturers are competing to sell Android phones , consumers will always win out in the end . If consumers did n't like the bloatware that came with their phones , other manufacturers would n't include it , the bad actors would lose customers , and everyone would have to adjust . As Eric Schmidt put it : `` that 's how markets work . '' That is how markets work in textbooks . It 's also more or less how unrestricted markets for undifferentiated products with large numbers of sellers work in practice . Unfortunately , it 's not how the market for cell phones works . There are just a handful of corporations in the world that make quality , high-end phones . And , in any given area , there are only a few carriers to provide service to those phones . There are two oligopolies in between you and Android , and they 're working together . With all due respect to Eric Schmidt , that sort of market generally does n't work very efficiently at all . To be fair , there are lots of great ways in which Android really does give users more freedom than the iPhone . For one thing , Google does n't try to prevent you from downloading apps of which it does n't approve . And , for the most part , opening up the OS to competition between different hardware manufacturers is terrific . These aspects of `` openness '' are a big part of why I switched to Android , and have no plans to go back . But letting handset makers and , especially , carriers make the Android experience worse is a bad move , and one the hurts Google 's customers . And , contrary to what the company claims , it would n't have to betray any principles of open source to fix this . Google can go ahead and give away its source under the Apache License , and let people run wild with it . But it should n't give away the `` Android '' brand to any company that cripples the product . Google is spending lots of money hyping that brand , and it is staking its reputation on it . These companies are taking full advantage of that . Google can be open without letting companies release inferior products with Google 's name on them . That kind of openness is bad news for the consumer , and ultimately bad news for Google . Copyright © 2010 Business Insider .
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Apache License lets anyone use the code in question as part of proprietary software . Google does n't try to prevent you from downloading apps of which it does n't approve . `` It should n't give away the `` Android '' brand to any company that cripples the product , '' says Saint .
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-LRB- Mashable -RRB- -- Sony has unveiled its newest line of Internet-enabled TVs , complete with the highly-anticipated Google TV software . Sony 's new Internet HDTVs , unveiled earlier today at a press event in New York City , sport 1080p edge-lit LED screens , with the exception of the 24 ? model . They come with four USB ports , four HDMI inputs and Wi-Fi capabilities . They are available in four sizes : 24 ? , 32 ? , 40 ? and 46 ? . The 24 ? model rings in at $ 599 while the 46 ? will cost you a hefty $ 1,399 . The big selling point of the new TVs is their inclusion of Google TV . The Internet TV software brings Hulu , Twitter , Netflix , YouTube and Pandora to your living room screen , not to mention search capabilities and a myriad of Android apps . Web surfing is powered by Google Chrome , while apps are powered by the Android OS . It integrates the web with your existing cable or satellite TV by making it simple to search your TV shows and your favorite websites at the same time . The service was revealed earlier this year at Google I/O . One of the more controversial parts of Sony 's new Google TV-enabled devices is the remote , though . It looks like a combination of a PlayStation 3 controller and a QWERTY keyboard , complete with dozens and dozens of buttons . In fact , Sony says some of the remote 's design elements are borrowed from the PS3 . Some people may love the extra functionality , but others might be turned off by all of the buttons . The new TVs become available this Saturday on SonyStyle.com and in Best Buy stores nationwide this Sunday , making this weekend the first indicator of whether consumers are demanding TVs that can also surf the web . Google desperately wants to dominate the living room screen and get people to use the web even more than they already do . Whether consumers will pony up the extra cash for Google TV devices is a question we 'll soon be able to answer . © 2010 MASHABLE.com . All rights reserved .
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Sony 's new Internet HDTVs sport 1080p edge-lit LED screens . The TVs come with four USB ports , four HDMI inputs and Wi-Fi capabilities . Web surfing is powered by Google Chrome and apps are powered by Android OS .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The holiday season is always a win for video gamers , as software makers jockey to one-up each other with slicker graphics , deeper play and more expansive 3-D worlds . But the larger and more complex modern-day epics like `` Fable III '' and `` Fallout : New Vegas '' become , the more it often pays to keep things simple . Classics such as `` Tetris '' and `` Pac-Man '' clearly illustrate this principle . As engaging today as they were when first launched decades back , it 's these titles ' sheer approachability and user-friendliness that make them timeless . Even the most sprawling modern-day gaming experiences , such as `` World of Warcraft '' and `` Call of Duty : Black Ops , '' still bow to the classic game design principle of keeping play easy to learn but hard to master . The successful games observe two vital rules : . 1 -RRB- Find clever ways to spin the same basic concept -LRB- swapping tiles , stomping enemy heads , etc. -RRB- multiple times . 2 -RRB- Tip learning curves in the players ' favor by slowly introducing added depth at a comfortable pace . There 's a reason why social games , including `` FarmVille '' and `` Mafia Wars , '' and iPhone apps such as `` Angry Birds '' and `` Pocket God '' continue to rack up millions of plays . It 's not that these titles are revolutionary in design . It 's that although the games are easy to start playing and enjoying , they increase in depth and complexity as the player gains more skill . This makes it less intimidating for players of all levels to try these games , which slowly entice us into their web . -LRB- Admittedly , the games ' low price points , on-demand access and ample personality do n't hurt either . -RRB- . Make no mistake : Hardcore gaming enthusiasts do demand more value and substance from their titles than casual gamers . So designers are creating more robust virtual realms and expanding titles ' value and scope through downloadable updates . Games in role-playing , simulation and strategy genres also thrive by adding greater intricacy , not less . In short , we 'd weep for a world without the latest `` Civilization '' or `` Gran Turismo . '' Instead of piling on pointless game variants or needlessly complicated controls , the most popular mass-appeal games often focus on executing a few simple features well -- and presenting them in endlessly novel contexts . What is `` Torchlight '' if not a smartly-placed series of mouse clicks , `` Bejeweled '' a simple slider puzzle or `` Guitar Hero : Warriors of Rock '' a more high-tech version of Simon ? No player likes to feel as if their favorite titles have been dumbed down . No designer appreciates admitting that behind all the fancy mission types , play modes and monsters , their basic play concept amounts to `` checkers with a twist , '' or simply tapping the right keys on cue . Still , why overcomplicate matters ? Freeform missions , jaw-dropping graphics and extensive online multiplayer support make excellent window dressing . But even in the era of sprawling odysseys like `` Alan Wake '' and `` Red Dead Redemption , '' they remain secondary to a fun , engaging and approachable core game experience .
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Simple games , including such classics as `` Tetris , '' are less intimidating to newcomers . The most popular games often focus on executing a few simple features well . Hardcore gamers still love complex challenges , and no one likes to feel their favorite titles have been dumbed down .
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-LRB- RollingStone.com -RRB- -- Bob Dylan has signed a six-book deal with Simon & Schuster , according to Crain 's New York Business , encompassing two sequels to his acclaimed 2004 book `` Chronicles : Volume One '' as well as another book based on dialogue from his Sirius/XM radio show `` Theme Time Radio Hour . '' It 's unclear what the other three books are going to be . According to the Crain 's , Dylan 's literary agent Andrew Wylie was seeking an eight-figure deal for the books . -LRB- Dylan has not responded to Rolling Stone 's request for comment -RRB- . RollingStone.com : Classic Bob Dylan photos from the 1960s . In 2006 Dylan told Rolling Stone that he was stunned by the overwhelmingly positive response to the first volume of Chronicles . `` The reviews of this book , some of 'em almost made me cry - in a good way , '' he told writer Jonathan Lethem . `` I 'd never felt that from a music critic , ever ... Most people who write about music , they have no idea what it feels like to play it . But with the book I wrote , I thought , ` The people who are writing reviews of this book , man , they know what the hell they 're talking about . ' It spoils you . '' RollingStone.com : The artwork of Bob Dylan . In that same article , he discussed his possible plans for `` Chronicles : Volume 2 . '' `` I think I can go back to the ` Blonde on Blonde ' album -- that 's probably about as far back as I can go on the next book , '' he said . `` Then I 'll probably go forward . I thought of an interesting time . `` I made this record , ` Under the Red Sky , ' with Don Was , but at the same time I was also doing the -LSB- second -RSB- Wilburys record . I do n't know how it happened that I got into both albums at the same time . `` I worked with George -LSB- Harrison -RSB- and Jeff -LSB- Lynne -RSB- during the day -- everything had to be done in one day , the track and the song had to be written in one day , and then I 'd go down and see Don Was , and I felt like I was walking into a wall . He 'd have a different band for me to play with every day , a lot of all-stars , for no particular purpose . `` Back then I was n't bringing anything at all into the studio , I was completely disillusioned . '' Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone .
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Bob Dylan has signed a six-book deal with Simon & Schuster . Deal will include two sequels to his acclaimed 2004 book `` Chronicles : Volume One '' Another book will be based on his Sirius/XM radio show `` Theme Time Radio Hour ''
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- European football clubs are bucking the trend of the worldwide recession , with England 's Premier League leading the way after posting $ 3.4 billion in revenues for the 2007-08 season . Premier League clubs spent more on wages last season than in any year since its inception in 1992 . The Premier League extended its financial superiority over its nearest rivals in Germany and Spain to more than $ 1.4 billion , according to Deloitte 's Annual Review of Football Finance . This result from its 20 clubs came despite the British pound 's 15 percent devaluation against the Euro currency , Deloitte said . Italy 's Serie A was the fastest growing league , increasing its total revenue by 34 percent to $ 1.99 billion -- with the return of Turin giants Juventus to the top flight contributing two-thirds of that upturn . The total European football market grew by $ 1.4 billion to $ 20.76 billion , fueled by a $ 995 million increase in the ` big five ' leagues plus the staging of the Euro 2008 finals in Austria and Switzerland . Deloitte 's Dan Jones , one of the authors of the report , said he expected English clubs to continue being profitable despite the uncertain economic climate , but perhaps not at the same `` remarkable '' rate . `` Between 1992 and 2008 , revenues for the top 20 clubs grew at a compound annual rate of 16 percent , compared with 5.4 percent for the UK economy as a whole , '' he said . `` Revenue increased by 26 percent in 2007/08 and Premier League clubs generated $ 1.3 million more revenue than their nearest rivals from the other ` big 5 ' leagues . `` It will , of course , be hard to maintain this pace in the immediate future . The new economic realities may lead to flat match-day revenues . While attendances continue to hold up well , many clubs have frozen or reduced ticket prices . `` However , the stepped increases in the current domestic broadcast deal and the new UEFA Champions League TV deal make it likely overall revenues will edge up . '' Deloitte said most of the increased broadcast revenue had been spent on player wages and transfers . Wage costs in the Premier League soared by $ 372 million , or 23 per cent , in 2007/08 to reach $ 1.96 billion -- which represented its largest annual increase since its inception in 1992 . Chelsea were the biggest spenders on $ 282 million , ahead of champions Manchester United -LRB- $ 198 million -RRB- , Arsenal -LRB- $ 165 million -RRB- Liverpool -LRB- $ 148 million -RRB- and Newcastle -LRB- $ 123 million -RRB- -- whose relegation at the end of the 2008/09 season could have dire financial implications for the club . Meanwhile , Premier League clubs ' spending on player transfers in both the summer 2008 and January 2009 transfer windows reached new record levels with an estimated $ 1.1 billion paid out . Deloitte 's Alan Switzer commented : `` Despite this increase in wage costs , Premier League clubs improved their wages/revenue ratio to 62 percent and generated record operating profits in 2007/08 of # 185 million -LRB- $ 303 million -RRB- . `` However lower revenue growth in forthcoming seasons means clubs will have to focus on improving cost control -- both wages and other operating costs -- if profits are to be maintained . '' Deloitte said while the Premier League 's total debt had risen , two-thirds of this was taken up by the top four clubs -- Arsenal , Chelsea , Liverpool and Manchester United -- and around $ 2 billion of it was non-interest bearing `` soft loans '' . `` On the positive side of the balance sheet , these four clubs also had # 1 billion -LRB- $ 1.64 billion -RRB- of assets in respect of investment in stadia and other facilities and a further # 450m -LRB- $ 738m -RRB- from investment in players , '' said Deloitte 's Paul Rawnsley .
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Europe 's leading football clubs are bucking the trend of worldwide recession . England 's Premier League posts $ 3.4 billion in revenues for 2007-08 season . Its return was $ 1.4 billion higher than their nearest rivals Spain and Germany . Italy the fastest growing European league with 34 per cent increase in revenue .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Manchester United returned to the top of the Premier League on Sunday after a 0-0 draw against Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane . A close fought affair -- which marked the 600th league appearance of Ryan Giggs -- ended with honors even despite United defender Rafael Da Silva being sent off for two bookable offences in the 74th minute . His second yellow for a trip on Assou-Ekotto was adjudged to be deliberate , but a clearly incensed Rafael thought otherwise as he remonstrated with referee Mike Dean about the decision . Spurs had the better chances to win the match with Rafael Van der Vaart missing a glorious opportunity to claim three points in the 80th minute after a mistake in the United defence gave him a unopposed shot on goal . But the Dutch international could only curl his shot narrowly over the bar . Kenny Dalglish earned the first point of his second spell in charge of Liverpool as the Merseyside derby against Everton ended in a 2-2 draw at Anfield . Raul Meireles ' first goal for Liverpool gave the Reds a deserved lead after 30 minutes in a half in which they dominated . But Everton hit back after the break with two goals in six minutes to take the lead . Sylvain Distin headed home after 46 minutes and Jermaine Beckford stunned the home supporters as he drilled home past Jose Reina to hand the Toffees the lead . But when Tim Howard brought down Maxi Rodriguez following a corner in the 66th minute , Dirk Kuyt made no mistake from the penalty spot . Liverpool and Everton both have 26 points , with Everton one place above their rivals thanks to a superior goal difference . In the other two matches played Sunday , the Tyneside derby ended in a 1-1 draw as Sunderland 's Asamoah Gyan scored four minutes into injury time to deny Newcastle the three points and a season double over their arch rivals . A neat backheel by Kevin Nolan had given the Magpies the lead seven minutes into the second half . Newcastle looked destined to win the match until the Ghanaian striker put the ball in the net after a shot from Phil Bardsley shot had been saved by Steve Harper . Sunderland stay in sixth place , while Newcastle are ninth . Aston Villa have moved out of the relegation zone after salvaging a 1-1 draw with local rivals Birmingham at St Andrews . Roger Johnson volleyed home early in the second half to give the home side the lead but James Collins squared things up after 73 minutes when he drove a shot home after Gabriel Agbonlahor had flicked the ball onto him . Birmingham remain in 16th place with 23 points on points , one place and one point ahead of Villa .
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Man U draw 0-0 with Spurs to return to the top of the Premier League on goal difference . Merseyside derby between Liverpool and Everton ends in 2-2 draw at Anfield . Newcastle and Sunderland draw 1-1 in local derby ; Aston Villa salvage point at Birmingham .
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Nova Friburgo , Brazil -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The death toll from devastating flooding in Brazil continued to rise Sunday , surpassing 600 , the government said . At least 631 deaths were reported in a mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state , northeast of the city of Rio . Other states in the South American country have also seen heavy rainfall . Are you there ? Share your photos , videos and stories . Last week , authorities in neighboring Sao Paulo state said 24 people had been killed by flooding . Forecasters there said late Sunday that an approaching cold front could bring more flooding and landslides . Most of the deaths in Rio de Janeiro state were reported in the cities of Nova Friburgo and Teresopolis , with 287 and 269 fatalities , respectively . The state 's health and civil defense department reported 56 fatalities in the town of Petropolis and 19 in Sumidouro . Officials in that office also warned residents of the risk of waterborne diseases . Several thousand vaccines against tetanus and diphtheria have been distributed , they said . Rescuers have not been able to reach some hard-hit areas , and many more people are feared dead . The rain is predicted to continue for several days in areas already submerged in water or slathered with mud . Members of the army entered parts of Teresopolis and were able to rescue 110 families . Thousands of families are still living on mountain slopes or on riverbanks and face extreme risk of being washed away . One resident described the disaster as a tsunami that fell from the sky . In a statement , Rio Gov. Sergio Cabral said he had a panic attack when he was traveling to Nova Friburgo and saw a devastated mountainside . Outside a makeshift morgue in Teresopolis , a crowd of people waited for their turn to identify loved ones . Marco Antonio Siqueira Costa said the last time he saw his brother , sister-in-law and niece was a few days ago , before mud buried their house . `` I think that last meeting was God 's way of granting us a farewell , '' he said . Residents in the city donned masks and helped clean streets or deliver first aid . Others combed the city , searching desperately for missing loved ones . Red Cross volunteer Maria Helena de Jesus was helping with first aid . `` You have to almost have a heart of stone , '' she said . `` It was very difficult . '' Teresopolis Mayor Jorge Mario Sedlacek declared his city a natural disaster area . President Dilma Rousseff flew over flood-affected areas last week and landed in Friburgo , the agency said . The floods are her first test as president . She trudged through mud to talk to residents in a neighborhood where four of seven firefighters trying to rescue people had been buried under mud . The other three were pulled out alive . `` We are going to take firm action '' to help the devastated areas , said Rousseff . Brazilian authorities have been criticized for a lack of disaster planning and allowing people to build homes in areas known to become treacherous in the rainy season . They are under increasing pressure to show a strong response . Brazil is scheduled to host the World Cup in 2014 and the 2016 Olympics . Journalist Fabiana Frayssinet contributed to this report .
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NEW : Forecasters say more flooding and landslides could hit Sao Paulo state . At least 631 deaths are reported in Rio de Janeiro state . Officials warn of the risk of waterborne diseases . Troops arrive to help rescue those who are trapped .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Liverpool striker Ryan Babel has been fined # 10,000 -LRB- $ 15,890 -RRB- by the English Football Association -LRB- FA -RRB- for posting doctored photos of referee Howard Webb on his Twitter blog . Babel was found guilty of improper conduct Monday by an FA regulatory commission and warned about his future conduct . He is the first Premier League footballer to be charged and fined for `` inappropriate '' tweeting . The Dutch international used his Twitter account to criticize Webb , who took charge of Liverpool 's FA Cup third round match against Manchester United . World Cup final referee Webb awarded United a disputed penalty and then sent off Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard as they slipped to a 1-0 defeat in Kenny Dalglish 's first match at the Anfield helm . Babel later posted a mocked-up picture of Webb wearing a Manchester United shirt and also wrote : `` And they call him one of the best referees ? That 's a joke . '' He later apologized and said it was meant to be light-hearted , but the FA took a dim view . Dalglish makes losing start as Liverpool go out . Commission chariman Roger Burden said : `` Social network sites must be regarded as being in the public domain . `` All participants need to be aware , in the same way as if making a public statement in other forms of media , that any comments would be transmitted to a wider audience . `` It is their responsibility to ensure only appropriate comments are used . '' Babel had run into trouble on Twitter before , being forced to apologize to former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez for comments he published after being dropped . Meanwhile , Manchester United full-back Rafael has been charged with improper conduct by the FA for his outburst at referee Mike Dean after being sent off in Sunday 's goalless draw at Tottenham . Rafael was sent off for a second yellow card for a foul on Benoit Assou-Ekotto in the second half .
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NEW : Manchester United 's Rafael charged with improper conduct . Ryan Babel is the first footballer to be charged by FA over a Twitter posting . Babel used a mock-up picture of referee Howard Webb and made derogatory comments . The Dutch international could face a ban if found guilty of charges .
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London , England -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Irish football officials have lodged an official complaint with world ruling body FIFA after Thierry Henry confessed that he handled the ball in the build-up to the goal which sent France to next summer 's World Cup . Television cameras showed Henry guiding the ball with his hand twice , before William Gallas scored from his resulting cross to give `` Les Bleus '' a narrow win in the two-legged World Cup play-off against the Republic of Ireland . `` I will be honest . It was a handball but I am not the referee , '' the Barcelona striker told reporters after the match in Paris . The Irish Justice Ministry confirmed to CNN that Dermot Ahern had asked the Football Association of Ireland -LRB- FAI -RRB- to demand a replay in the interests of fair play . `` Thierry Henry has admitted handling the ball , claims he told the ref he handled it . Millions of people worldwide saw it was a blatant double handball -- not to mention a double offside -- and we should put the powers that be in the cozy world of FIFA on the spot and demand a replay , '' Ahern said in a statement sent to CNN . `` They probably wo n't grant it as we are minnows in world football but let 's put them on the spot . It 's the least we owe the thousands of devastated young fans around the country . Otherwise if that result remains it reinforces the view that if you cheat you will win . '' The FAI later confirmed that it had taken the matter to FIFA . `` I really believe the integrity of the game has been questioned last night , '' chief executive John Delaney told reporters . `` The governing body of world football have to step up to the plate and accede to our call for a replay . '' Delaney said the FAI had also written to the French football federation . `` They need to look at themselves in this situation . Henry is their captain and a wonderful footballer , but does he want to be like Diego Maradona and his legacy to be this handball , this goal that got them to the World Cup in an unjust manner ? If we had qualified in this manner , I would n't be happy , '' he said . `` It is up to the people who govern the game now . Every time I go to a FIFA congress I hear about fair play and integrity . This was a defining game with the whole world watching , and if FIFA believe in fair play and integrity , this is their opportunity to step forward . '' The FAI has argued that there is a precedent for the result to be struck out , following FIFA 's ruling that Uzbekistan had to replay a play-off against Bahrain for the 2006 World Cup in Germany after the referee made a mistake in awarding a penalty . `` The Football Association of Ireland is hoping that FIFA and its disciplinary committee will , on behalf of football fans worldwide , act in a similar fashion so that the standards of fair play and integrity can be protected , '' the FAI said . FIFA confirmed it had received the Irish request for a replay , but gave no timescale on a decision . However , it said that under its regulations the referee 's decision can not be changed . `` Law 5 states that the decisions of the referee regarding facts connected with play , including whether or not a goal is scored and the result of the match , are final , '' it said . `` The referee may only change a decision on realising that it is incorrect or , at his discretion , on the advice of an assistant referee or the fourth official , provided that he has not restarted play or terminated the match . '' Irish captain Richard Dunne , who spoke to Henry on the final whistle , said he felt cheated by the goal . `` He admitted he handled it , but it does n't make me feel any better because we are not going to the World Cup finals , '' the defender said . `` FIFA will probably be happy . Yet again the big decisions have gone for the bigger team . '' Football 's international governing body had faced criticism from several Irish players that the seeding system for the play-off draw favored more powerful nations such as France . Blog : When will FIFA see what 's staring them in the face ? Dunne 's teammate Robbie Keane admitted it was `` hard to speak , '' as he struggled to come to terms with the result . `` With the way we played , we certainly deserved to win the game and it killed us near the end with that handball , '' he was quoted by the FAI Web site as saying . `` I 've seen the replay but we knew anyway -LRB- it was handball -RRB- . You could see by the reaction of the players , especially Shay -LRB- Given -RRB- who was two yards away from it . You do n't get a reaction like that . It was a clear handball . `` He -LRB- Henry -RRB- almost caught the ball and actually ran into the net with it . We 're devastated . '' Ireland team manager Giovanni Trapattoni told reporters that the referee had time to ask the linesman and then Henry . `` It would not have been the first time a player would have asked and it would not have been out of turn . `` We are angry , '' the Italian continued . `` It is a bitter evening for me . I would prefer to have gone out on penalties . '' Fanzone : Five of football 's most famous injustices . But former France international David Ginola was emphatic that Henry should not have `` owned up . '' `` You do n't do that , '' he told CNN . `` Henry was doing his job . You ca n't blame him for doing everything he could for his team and country to get them to South Africa . `` But it was a shame to finish the game like that as Ireland had played very well . `` Referees need more help on the pitch , so as not to allow things like that . Obviously the referee was not well-positioned and could n't see . '' English Referees Union chief Alan Leighton told CNN that Swedish official Martin Hansson had clearly missed a huge decision . `` I think the incident was more of instinct than deliberately attempting to cheat but it does seem that the ball hit his hand twice and therefore there is an issue . '' But on the wider issue of cheating , Leighton said : `` It is all very well to blame the referees for not spotting it but fundamentally it starts with the players . `` I think the players have to think about the game , think about the reputation of the game and their own reputations and say look actually there is a line that we will not cross . ''
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NEW : Republic of Ireland officials lodge official complaint with world ruling body FIFA . NEW : FAI also writes to French counterparts asking for World Cup play-off to be replayed . Cameras showed France 's Thierry Henry guiding ball with his hand twice , before William Gallas scored . Ex-France player David Ginola said Henry was only doing his job for his country and should not be blamed .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Taking dietary supplements containing essential fatty acids can help reduce the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome , according to the results of study by researchers at a Brazilian university . The study , published Monday in the journal Reproductive Health , found that taking capsules containing about 1 gram of a blend of three essential fatty acids produced a significant reduction in PMS symptoms . Essential fatty acids are substances that are not produced by the human body and are only available from diet . Eggs , nuts , vegetable oils and fish are examples of foods that provide such acids , which are also available in supplement form . The study , authored by researchers from the Federal University of Pernambuco , is not the first to address the possible link between PMS and essential fatty acids , substances that play a complicated role in a woman 's reproductive system . The study cites research dating back to 1983 examining such a possible link . According to the study , the 120 women who participated reported few side effects , and most of those were mild and may have been due to sensitivity to mineral oil , the placebo taken by some of the participants . The supplements taken by women in the study contained 210 mg of gamma linolenic acid , 175 mg of oleic acid , 345 mg of linoleic acid , 250 mg of other polyunsaturated acids and 20 mg of vitamin E , according to researchers . According to the study , women who took the supplements for six months saw a bigger benefit than those who took them for three months . The researchers do not make any recommendation in their study about whether women who suffer from PMS should increase their intake of essential fatty acids or , instead , consult with their doctor . Other treatments studied for PMS include vitamin B6 , ascorbic acid and niacin .
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A new study suggests esential fatty acids may help ease the symptoms of PMS . The report found significant reductions in symptoms among women studied . Such substances are found in nuts , some vegetable oils and fish , as well as supplements .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Ashes hero Alastair Cook has all but given up hope of playing for England in the World Cup in the sub-continent next month . Despite his run-scoring feats in the recent 3-1 Test series win against Australia , the opener has not featured recently in the England squad for the shorter forms of cricket , including the 50-over per side format used in the World Cup . Cook told CNN that he is in direct competition for an opening slot with captain Andrew Strauss and does not rate his chances of inclusion very highly when the final 15-man line-up is announced on Wednesday . `` Myself and Straussy do quite a similar role at the top of the order , our styles are very similar . Possibly as he 's captain he 's going to take a lot to shift , '' he said . The 26-year-old amassed 766 runs in the five-Test Ashes series , the second best ever by an England player , and clearly wants to keep up the momentum . Injured Tendulkar gets World Cup call . `` It 's a little bit frustrating , especially when you 're in a little bit of form , but the selectors have been building towards this for a while now and they 're plans and unfortunately I 've not been in it , '' he admitted . `` But cricket 's a strange game , sport 's a strange game , and you never know , '' he added . Whether he gains a place for the World Cup , or gets a call-up later during the tournament as a replacement , Cook 's place in cricket history is assured after a hitting double century and two other centuries as England emphatically retained the Ashes Down Under . `` To achieve that , and the manner in which we achieved it , was very special , '' he said . `` The support we 've had from everyone in Australia and back here has just been fantastic , '' added Cook , who has been awarded the freedom of the City of London in honor of his exploits . Yet , ironically , the Essex opener 's place was under threat for the tour after a sorry run of form in England 's summer Tests which left him low on confidence and self-belief . `` It was very low , confidence is only bred by success . `` That was quite a defining moment for me in my career . When I really , really needed a score personally and under pressure from the media and probably thinking I should n't play , to be able to deliver , I think that really helped me in Australia . '' Cook has scored 16 Test hundreds and 24 other scores of 50 or above in his 65-Test match career and also captained his country for the 2010 series in Bangladesh as Strauss was rested .
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Alastair Cook not hopeful of winning place in England 's World Cup squad . Cook scored 766 runs as England beat Australia 3-1 in Ashes Test series . Tells CNN that ` it 's a little bit frustrating ' to be left out of England one-day squads . World Cup in 50-over-per side format starts next month on sub-continent .
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London , England -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The group poised to launch a takeover bid for English Premier League side Manchester United has signaled its intent by appointing a major international bank to act as its financial adviser . The `` Red Knights '' consortium , made up of wealthy businessmen , has employed Japanese investment bank Nomura to help with its $ 1 billion move for the club , currently owned by the American Glazer family . The Knights say Nomura will now work closely with the Manchester United Supporters ' Trust -LRB- MUST -RRB- and other potential investors to `` coordinate and formulate the proposal to be put to the Glazer family , '' according to a statement . The bank 's team will be led by Guy Dawson and Andrew McNaught , both of whom advised Manchester United 's board when the club was sold to the Glazers in 2005 . Their first job will be to firm up offers of financial support pledged to the Red Knights ' cause , and help on any proposal that is eventually put to the club . The Glazers have been criticized for the levels of debt at the current English champions , with the latest accounts showing that United are more than $ 1 billion in the red . The owners recently launched a bond issue to raise $ 750 million to reduce the debt . They also own NFL side Tampa Bay Buccaneers . The Red Knights ' announcement comes just hours after the most vocal protest yet from Manchester United supporters against the Glazer family , during Wednesday 's European Champions League last 16 victory over AC Milan . Fans unveiled banners that read : `` Love United Hate Glazer . '' The green and gold scarves that have become a symbol of their disquiet were also prevalent at Old Trafford . The club 's chief executive , David Gill , told a football conference last week that the Glazers were not interested in selling the club . Nevertheless the Red Knights are pressing ahead . In a statement confirming the appointment of Nomura , the group said : `` The Red Knights are pleased to confirm that Nomura , the global investment bank , has agreed to advise on a possible acquisition of Manchester United . `` Nomura will work closely with the Red Knights , MUST and other potential investors to co-ordinate and formulate the proposal to be put to the Glazer family . `` Nomura is beginning its role by contacting the many expressions of financial support the Red Knights have received to date . ''
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Group eyeing takeover for Manchester United appoints leading bank as adviser . Japanese bank Nomura will help `` Red Knights '' consortium on bid . Manchester United fans protested against current owners at last game . United are currently $ 1 billion in debt , according to accounts .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Former Inter Milan striker Adriano has revealed he had to leave the Italian Serie A giants because of alcohol problems . Brazili striker Adriano is now enjoying his football again after returning home to play for Flamengo . The Brazilian ended his contract with Inter by mutual consent in April after a torrid eight years at the San Siro . Adriano returned to his homeland and signed for Flamengo and the 27-year-old claims he now feels like a new person . `` After the death of my father I fell into a depression that I only managed to cure with alcohol , '' Adriano told Brazilian magazine R7 . `` I was happy only when I was drinking and I never stopped . I went out every night and drank whatever happened to be in front of me : wine , whisky , beer ... a lot of beer . `` People think that it was madness to give up the millionaire 's contract that I had but the truth is that there is not money enough to compensate for family . I gave up so many millions but I bought happiness . '' Adriano had a troubled time in Italy and his career was often called into question by off-the-field reports . In September 2007 , he was sent home to Brazil by Inter as he was unhappy , and he went on to join Sao Paulo on loan for six months before heading back to Italy . Reports at the time suggested Adriano was once again turning up to training drunk and the Brazil international has admitted that was why the Nerazzurri eventually gave up on him . He continued : `` I turned up every day drunk . I could n't sleep for fear of being late but at the end I arrived in unpresentable conditions anyway and so they used to send me to sleep in the infirmary while they told journalists that I had some muscle problems . `` I went back to Inter because of coach Jose Mourinho , but it was not enough . I started again with parties , women and alcohol . `` The club did n't want to accept the situation and gave up insisting on my recovery . I 'm upset for Mourinho , who rightly argued with several directors in an attempt to convince them to treat me . ''
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Former Inter Milan striker Adriano has revealed why he left the Italian giants . The 27-year-old has admitted having alcohol problems after death of his father . However , he told Brazilian magazine R7 he is better now back playing at home .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Police and the mother of a 4-year-old California boy clung to hope Thursday for the child 's safety , days after a man allegedly snatched the pre-schooler from his grandmother 's arms then took off . An Amber Alert was issued for Juliani Cardenas , who authorities say was abducted by Jose Esteban Rodriguez in the northern California town of Patterson . `` He -LRB- Rodriguez -RRB- wanted to be with my son , '' Tabitha Cardenas told reporters Thursday , adding that she had broken up with Rodriguez four or five months ago . `` He wanted to be with my son so bad that he took it to the extreme . '' Yet authorities feared the worst , after a witness reported seeing a car matching that of the alleged kidnapper plunge into the Delta-Mendota Canal . But they were not able to locate the vehicle during searches Thursday . `` We believe the suspect drove the car into the canal , with little Juliani inside , '' Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson told HLN 's Nancy Grace . `` But so far , we have n't been able to locate the car . '' Christianson said that the search will resume Friday , with help from the neighboring Merced County sheriff 's department , using side-scanning sonar . The sheriff , though , also held out hope that the witness may have been mistaken -- and Juliani , in fact , never went underwater . `` There 's still hope that we 're going to be able to find Juliani alive , '' he said . In an emotional press conference Thursday , the boy 's mother said she believes Rodriguez is troubled -- claiming he told her that he sometimes `` hears voices '' and that he had been abusive when they were dating -- but she did not think he would drown her son or consciously put him in danger . Rodriguez is not the boy 's biological father . `` He 's scared , Jose 's scared -- I know he is , '' said Cardenas . `` He probably does n't know what to do . '' The suspect had come to Cardenas ' house early Tuesday morning , according to the boy 's mother , leaving after she told him to leave because Juliani was asleep and had a cold . The boy 's school later called Tabitha Cardenas after Rodriguez had gone there asking to spend time with the boy . In the late afternoon , Cardenas got a call from her frantic mother , who claimed that the Rodriguez had again come by and , despite her struggle , had taken the boy from the grandmother 's arms . Cardenas said that her mother told her that the suspect then flashed an obscene gesture , laughed and got into his 2003 silver Toyota Corolla , which he had left running . The boy , Juliani , is 3 feet , 6 inches tall , weighs 40 pounds and has brown eyes and black hair , according to the Amber Alert . He was wearing dark pants and a light blue shirt at the time of his abduction . Rodriguez , 27 , is described in the same alert as being a Hispanic male , about 180 pounds and 5 feet , 9 inches tall . Tabitha Cardenas , who broke down several times while addressing reporters , said she especially was worried that her son was not getting enough water or food . She issued an urgent plea to Rodriguez , who she said took their break-up hard but stayed in contact , to drop off her son at a hospital or fire department . `` Please , I need him home , '' she said . `` I know he 's telling you that he 's missing me . You need to bring him home . ''
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An Amber Alert has been issued for Juliani Cardenas , 4 , of Patterson , California . Police say he was abducted by Jose Rodriguez , the ex-boyfriend of the boy 's mother . The boy 's grandmother says the man took the boy from her arms then fled . Police are searching a canal after a tip that the kidnapper drove his car into it .
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NEW YORK -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Global markets were reeling Monday after a historic day on Wall Street that saw two famous names become the latest victims of the credit crunch . The leading U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and brokerage Merrill Lynch was the subject of a $ 50 billion buyout by Bank of America . The fate of other big name financial institutions remained in doubt and stock prices plunged in Asia , Europe and the United States . In New York , the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 504 points down , or about 4.4 percent . The Nasdaq composite lost 3.6 percent , its worst single-session percentage decline since March 24 , 2003 . It left the tech-fueled average at its lowest point since March 17 of this year . In Europe , FTSE index in London declined 3.92 percent while the Paris CAC 40 was down 3.78 percent . It was the worst day for the index since the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001 . Major Asian indexes were closed but India 's Sensex fell 5.4 percent , Taiwan 's benchmark dropped 4.1 , Australia 's key index dropped 2 percent and Singapore fell 2.9 . Check markets . The turmoil at Merrill Lynch and Lehman is bound to mean job losses in the already hard-hit financial services industry , but so far neither company has indicated how many will be cut . `` This crisis is clearly deeper than anybody had imagined only a short time ago , '' Peter Stein , an associate editor at the Wall Street Journal in Asia , told CNN . The chaos followed a roller-coaster weekend for a Wall Street already concussed by woes at other major financial firms and mortgage-financing titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac . Sound off : What do you think ? At one point the U.S. Federal Reserve was forced to step in , announcing plans to loosen lending restrictions to the banking industry in an effort to calm markets , while a consortium of 10 leading domestic and foreign banks agreed a $ 70 billion fund to lend to troubled financial firms . U.S. President George W. Bush said Monday he is confident that the markets are resilient and can deal with the latest financial blows . `` We are working to reduce disruptions and minimize the impact these financial market developments on the broader economy . '' Watch what went wrong '' He added : `` In the short run , adjustments in the financial markets can be painful for people worried about their investments and for employees of the firms . '' U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said eight years of Bush `` brought us the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression . '' His Republican rival said John McCain said he was happy the federal government decided not to use taxpayer dollars to bail out Lehman Brothers . In an effort to calm market jitters , the European Central Bank on Monday said it has pumped $ 42.6 billion into money markets . The Bank of England in London also took steps , offering nearly $ 9 billion in a three-day auction . In another development , American International Group , the world 's largest insurer , was reportedly struggling to secure billions of dollars in capital after months of seeing its share values slide . Police cordoned off Lehman 's headquarters in New York on Sunday as staff , some in suits , others in casual clothes , left the building with cardboard boxes while tourists and onlookers gathered to watch the spectacle . The 158-year-old bank , which has weathered previous financial upheavals and saw its offices destroyed in the September 11 World Trade Center attacks , filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy , which grants protection while it works out a plan to pay back creditors . The collapse of Lehman came after shares declined 94 percent in the space of a year , prompting speculation over its fate . It took a turn for the worse Sunday when Bank of America and British bank Barclays , both viewed as potential `` white knights , '' pulled out of deal talks , sources told CNNMoney.com . Both Lehmans and Merrill have been caught with huge exposures to unsecured mortgages , the bad debts at the heart of the so-called credit crunch that has devalued the U.S. housing market and sent financial shockwaves worldwide . Analysis : Different rules for different names '' Lehman 's collapse and the sale of Merrill reduces the number of independent firms on Wall Street to two -- Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs -- following the sale of Bear Stearns to JP Morgan at a bargain price earlier this year . `` Acquiring one of the premier wealth management , capital markets and advisory companies is a great opportunity for our shareholders , '' Bank of American Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ken Lewis said in a statement Monday . `` Together our companies are more valuable because of the synergies in our businesses . '' Like Lehman , Merrill Lynch has been suffering from bad real estate bets , and its stock price lost 27 percent last week -- shares are down 65 percent this year . Watch why Bank of America thinks Merrill is the opportunity of a lifetime '' Merrill , known for with its famous bull logo , has been an icon of Wall Street and investing . But billions of dollars in losses in the last year due to fallout in the U.S. mortgage market proved too much for the 94-year old firm . David Ellis of CNNMoney.com contributed to this report .
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U.S. investment banking giant Lehman Brothers to file for bankruptcy . Merrill Lynch agrees to be taken over by Bank of America . Job losses certain but numbers not yet known . NEW : Dow Jones suffered worst day since 9/11 ; Asia , Europe markets tumbled .
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PARIS , France -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Al Qaeda threatened to `` take revenge '' on France `` by every means and wherever we can reach them '' because of a debate in France over whether the burqa , a traditional Islamic woman 's covering , violates French law , according to a statement posted on radical Islamist Web sites . A woman wears traditionnal Muslim dress in Venissieux , near Lyon , France . `` We will not tolerate such provocations and injustices , and we will take our revenge from France , '' said the statement , signed by Abu Musab Abdul Wadud , calling himself `` commander of al Qaeda in North Africa -LSB- Islamic Maghreb -RSB- . '' The statement is dated June 28 , five days after French President Nicolas Sarkozy controversially told lawmakers that the traditional Muslim garment was `` not welcome '' in France . A day later , the French National Assembly announced the creation of an inquiry into whether women in France should be allowed to wear the garment . A cross-party panel of 32 lawmakers will investigate whether the burqa poses a threat to the secular nature of the French constitution . They are due to report back with their recommendations in six months . The al Qaeda statement accused France of `` organizing its ranks to fight a new blatant war against our sisters wearing the burqa . '' CNN can not verify the authenticity of the statement , which also accused the French of `` committing all of these grievances in a time when we see their women flooding our nations , filling our shores , poorly dressed and nude in a deliberate defiance to the feelings of Muslims and in clear contempt to the teachings of the Islamic faith , traditions and norms . '' `` Our Muslim brothers in France in particular and in Europe in general are increasingly troubled by the practices of the French politicians and their leaders , and their constant harassments of our people regarding the burqa issue , '' said the statement . `` Yesterday they targeted the veil , today the burqa and maybe tomorrow their evil hands could be extended to defame our pillars of faith , like praying , fasting or the pilgrimage , '' it added . Sarkozy made the statement last week , in an address to parliament . `` The problem of the burqa is not a religious problem . This is an issue of a woman 's freedom and dignity . This is not a religious symbol . It is a sign of subservience ; it is a sign of lowering . I want to say solemnly , the burqa is not welcome in France , '' Sarkozy said . The right of Muslim women to cover themselves is fiercely debated in France , which has a significant Muslim minority but also a staunchly secular constitution . In 2004 , the French parliament passed legislation banning Muslim girls from wearing head scarves in state schools , prompting widespread Muslim protests . The law also banned other conspicuous religious symbols including Sikh turbans , large Christian crucifixes and Jewish skull caps . Last year , France 's top court denied a Moroccan woman 's naturalization request on the grounds that she wore a burqa . Between 5 and 10 percent of France 's population of 64 million is Muslim , according to CIA estimates . The country does not collect its own statistics on religion in accordance with laws enshrining France 's status as a secular state . France is not the only European Union country to consider banning the burqa . Dutch lawmakers voted in favor of a ban in 2005 , although the government at the time left office before legislation could be passed .
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Threatening statement posted on radical Islamic Web sites . Statement threatens to take revenge `` by every means and wherever we can '' French lawmakers to consider whether burqa threatens French secularism . Panel set up after President Sarkozy says burqa not welcome in France .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The Trans Alaska pipeline is expected to return to full service this week after a leak near Prudhoe Bay brought the flow of oil to a stop this month , a company spokeswoman said . `` We are in the final stages of the bypass line , '' said Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. spokeswoman Megan Egan . The 800-mile line was shut down January 8 when a leak was found during an inspection of a pump house . The pipeline then was reopened from Tuesday through Saturday to flush remaining oil from the line . When the pumping resumes , the flow will start at about 500,000 barrels of oil a day -- about three-quarters of normal flow -- and then move to its full capacity , Egan said . The pipeline 's daily average output is about 642,000 barrels , according to the company website .
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A leak is found in a booster pump building . The pipeline will start pumping at a reduced rate . The Trans Alaska pipline is about 800 miles long .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- World No. 2 Rafael Nadal overcame last year 's nemesis Robin Soderling to win the World Tennis Championship exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi on Saturday . The Spaniard , whose defeat to the Swede in the French Open triggered the unraveling of his season amid injury problems , won 7-6 -LRB- 7-3 -RRB- 7-5 as he began his build-up to the defense of his Australian Open title in encouraging style . Soderling , who also defeated Nadal at the season-ending ATP World Tour finals in London , had come into the match buoyed by his breakthrough first victory against world No. 1 Roger Federer in the semifinals on Friday . Having taken the first set to a tie-break , Soderling fought back from 4-2 down in the second set to level at 4-4 but Nadal -- who lost to Andy Murray in the final last year -- showed no signs of the inconsistency that plagued the latter half of his 2009 campaign as he clinched victory . Earlier on Saturday , Federer claimed third place with a 6-1 7-5 victory against Spain 's David Ferrer . The tournament , which is not an official ATP Tour event , also featured Russia 's Nikolay Davydenko and Federer 's Swiss compatriot Stanislas Wawrinka . Wawrinka replaced Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the field after the Frenchman pulled out with a wrist injury . Federer and Nadal will next head to Doha for the opening tournament of the ATP Tour schedule , while world No. 8 Soderling will be top seed for the Chennai Open in India .
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World No. 2 Rafael Nadal wins World Tennis Championship exhibition event in Abu Dhabi . Spaniard defeats Robin Soderling in final to avenge two key defeats to Swede in 2009 . Nadal , who lost in last year 's final to Andy Murray , will next play in Doha ATP Tour event . He will be second seed behind Roger Federer , third in Abu Dhabi after beating David Ferrer .
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LONDON , England -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- English football clubs have always attracted wealthy owners . Traditionally , club chairmen were bluff local businessmen with a few spare millions in the bank , perhaps looking to put something back into their local community , somewhere to schmooze clients and colleagues , and seduced by the idea of being a player -- albeit at boardroom level -- in a sport that is an obsession for millions . Long-suffering City fans overnight saw their club transformed into one of the world 's wealthiest . But this week 's purchase of Manchester City by an Abu Dhabi-based consortium from the controversial former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra provided further proof that the English Premier League has become an altogether different ball game , attracting an altogether different caliber of super-rich investor . For decades City have lived in the shadows of local rivals Manchester United . While United are one of the world 's most famous clubs and current champions of England and Europe , it is now more than 40 years since the last of City 's two league titles . City followers have long sought solace in the hackneyed idea that all United supporters are glory hunters while they represent the true spirit of long suffering , gray-skied Mancunian fandom . Yet now City supporters find themselves following a club capable overnight of breaking the British transfer record in an audacious $ 58 million swoop for the highly-rated Brazilian Robinho , formerly of Real Madrid , and with aspirations of both out-spending and out-playing their red-shirted rivals . `` We are going to be the biggest club in the world , bigger than both Real Madrid and Manchester United , '' multi-billionaire property tycoon Sulaiman al-Fahim , the public face of the Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment which has taken over City , declared in an interview Monday with Arabian Business magazine . `` This is like all their Christmases come at once , '' World Soccer magazine 's Kier Radnedge told CNN . `` Manchester City have been a great soap opera over the years ; lots of hope , lots of dreams and really very little to celebrate and cheer along the way . All of a sudden , out of the blue , it seems as if they really can compete with Manchester United and that is really all their fans have ever wanted to do . '' Watch why the sky is now the limit for the Blues '' Middle Eastern football expert James Montague , author of `` When Friday Comes : Football in the War Zone , '' sees the Abu Dhabi 's group 's purchase of Manchester City as an attempt to steal a march on rival emirate Dubai , which has itself been linked with a move for City 's Premier League rivals Liverpool . `` There is an almost messianic love of Premiership football in the Middle East , especially in the Gulf countries , '' Montague told CNN.com . `` But this move is n't about profit , or business acumen . This is about prestige . For the Abu Dhabi group , which is basically a consortium of the emirate 's royal family , this is more about putting their flag in the sand and putting Abu Dhabi -- and the United Arab Emirates -- on the map . '' In recent seasons English football has become a billionaire 's playground with foreign owners drawn to the game by the global success , international exposure and financial strength of the Premier League . Accountants Deloitte estimate that the combined revenue of the Premier League 's 20 clubs for the 2007-08 season from television rights , gate receipts and global marketing will reach # 1.9 billion -LRB- $ 3.4 billion -RRB- . The financial landscape of English football was transformed in 2003 when Russian oil tycoon Roman Abramovich bought west London club Chelsea and bankrolled them to back-to-back Premier League titles under the leadership of Jose Mourinho . Since then other clubs have followed foreign money in an effort to compete . Manchester United are now controlled by the family of U.S. sports magnate Malcolm Glazer while Liverpool are co-owned by American pair George Gillett and Tom Hicks . Elsewhere in the Premier League , Aston Villa , Portsmouth , Fulham and West Ham all have foreign owners while the trend has also spread to lower league clubs . Last year London side Queen 's Park Rangers were bought by Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone , Renault F1 team chief Flavio Briatore and steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal . But not all supporters have welcomed the transformation of clubs rooted in local communities into multinational businesses . A core of Manchester United fans have bitterly opposed the Glazers ' involvement at Old Trafford , going as far as forming a breakaway club called FC United of Manchester . At Liverpool meanwhile , where relations between Gillett and Hicks have soured amid continuing rumors that the club will be sold to a Dubai investment group , supporters have launched a campaign -- ShareLiverpoolFC -- to buy the club themselves , attracting interest from thousands of fans . `` Clubs like Liverpool -- and there are many others -- feel like family to those who love and support them , '' Rogan Taylor , a lifelong Liverpool fan and founder of the Football Supporters ' Association , wrote in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper . `` The biggest may have international brands , which accounts for their attraction to multinational investors ; but at heart the brand is their fans and the history of their club . It can never really belong to anyone else . '' Yet many fans appear happy enough to see foreign investment coming into their clubs if it means better players , better football and success on the field . At City that is likely to mean `` fireworks '' when the transfer window reopens in January , according to Montague . `` Abu Dhabi is so awash with cash , they have difficulty spending it all , '' he said . `` They will turn the transfer market on its head . They 've already smashed the British transfer record with Robinho and have targeted the six biggest players in the world with a transfer kitty of $ 400 million . ''
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Abu Dhabi investment group agree takeover deal for Manchester City . Club immediately breaks British transfer record to sign Brazilian Robinho . English Premier League has become a playground for billionair foreign owners . New owners say they plan to turn City into the world 's biggest club .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- North Korea qualified for the 2010 World Cup finals for the first time since 1966 by battling to a 0-0 draw away to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday night . North Korea have qualified for the World Cup for the first time since 1966 . The point captured in searing temperatures in Riyadh , saw the Koreans edge into second place in Asian qualifying Group 2 to finish ahead of Saudi Arabia on goal difference and seal their place in the finals . It means both group winners South Korea , who co-hosted the World Cup with Japan in 2002 , and neighbors North Korea will play in the 2010 showpiece in South Africa . North Korea coach Kim Yong-Jun Kim had nothing but praise for his players after the final whistle . `` We focused on the defending as we had come under a lot of pressure from the Saudis and I think our preparation for the game was one factor that earned the victory tonight , '' the North Korean boss told FIFA 's official Web site . `` We monitored the Saudi team from the beginning of our campaign and I noticed that they have a problem in finding good strikers . We battled to qualify for the World Cup finals and I would like to thank my players for the great performance that they showed during the whole match , '' added Kim . `` It was so hot in Saudi Arabia and as you know the journey from Korea was long but our belief in the ability of the players snatched the ticket to South Africa , '' Kim stated . The booking of North Korea 's ticket to the finale will see the reclusive nation compete against the world 's best despite growing international political concern regarding Pyongyang 's testing of a nuclear bomb recently . Their form in the tournament is one of upsetting the odds after they Italy 43 years ago en route to the quarter-finals . The home draw sees Saudi Arabia finish in third place to go into the playoffs where they will face Bahrain . The winners will play New Zealand for a place in the finals , while Iran miss out after finishing fourth in Group 2 . Earlier on Wednesday , they were denied a victory in Seoul as Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-Sung scored a late equalizer to give South Korea a 1-1 draw . Iran took the lead from an own goal early in the second half against the group winners , but Park popped up to score a brilliant 81st minute goal as he beat several men before firing home . In Group 1 , Tim Cahill scored twice as Australia came from behind to beat Japan 2-1 to clinch top spot in the section . The result was academic as both teams had already sealed automatic qualification for the World Cup finals in South Africa . Japan went ahead in front of a big crowd of nearly 70,000 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground -LRB- MCG -RRB- as Marcus Tulio Tanaka headed home a Kengo Nakamura corner in the 40th minute . But the Socceroos , who went through qualifying unbeaten , hit back in the second half . Everton 's attacking midfielder Cahill again worked his scoring magic to secure the victory . He was on target in the 59th and 76th minutes to take his tally to 16 in 33 internationals . `` This is a step forward for us , it 's great to finish top of the group , '' Cahill told FIFA.com after the win , while captain Lucas Neill paid tribute to their opponents . `` They really played the game with intensity and they were running us ragged for a bit and we could n't get ourselves in the game , '' Neill said . Bahrain later clinched third spot in the group and their playoff spot with a 1-0 win over Uzbekistan . A 74th minute goal from Mahmood Abdulrahman from a free kick gave his side a crucial three points .
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North Korea qualify from Group 2 with 0-0 draw against Saudi Arabia . Australia top Group 1 of Asian qualifying with 2-1 win over Japan . Bahrain clinch playoff spot from Group 1 with 1-0 win over Uzbekistan .
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LONDON , England -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- CNN followed two die-hard football fans as they traveled to Rome to watch their teams battle to become champions of Europe . Ivan Papell partied until the early hours after seeing Barcelona win the champions League final . Ivan Papell is a Barcelona fan and managing director of the Spanish arm of a multinational company . He is in high spirits today after seeing his team beat Manchester United 2-0 , but confesses to being a little tired . He did n't make it to bed until six o'clock this morning after partying the night away with thousands of other Barcelona fans , . `` It was a great night for Barcelona , but I 've lost my voice from screaming , '' he told CNN . Manchester United fan Geoff Pearson is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool in England and lives in Manchester . He traveled to Moscow to see his team beat Chelsea in last year 's Champions League final , but United were unable to repeat their success last night . `` We were outplayed , apart from for the first 10 minutes of the match , '' he admits . His match ticket cost him $ 106 , but that only accounts for a small part of his expenses . Pearson could n't get tickets for a direct flight to Rome -- instead , he had to fly to Milan , then hire a car and drive to Rome , where he stayed for three nights . In total , traveling to the final cost him about $ 750 , but he does not regret making the journey . Manchester United fan Geoff Pearson does n't regret traveling to Rome , despite seeing his team lose . `` The atmosphere at the match was brilliant , '' he told CNN . `` The Manchester United fans did themselves proud . They outnumbered the Barcelona fans and made more noise . '' How much have you paid to see your team play abroad ? Sound Off below . While Pearson was impressed by the atmosphere inside Rome 's Stadio Olimpico , he says he and other traveling Manchester United fans had difficulty getting to the match . He says the fans ' bus was delayed up by police and that there was a crush to get through the turnstiles into the stadium , putting it down to `` the usual chaos of Italian away matches . '' Papell had no such trouble getting to the game and , sitting with Manchester United fans , he says he was impressed by their sporting behavior . He says that many United fans congratulated him after the match , telling him Barcelona had deserved to win . After seeing Barcelona beat the reigning European Champions Papell was justifiably proud of his team 's performance . `` Barcelona were lucky to have scored first , but after that it was the sort of match Barcelona wanted . Manchester United were always behind the ball and Barcelona dominated the game , '' he said . `` I was expecting more from Manchester United but Barcelona can play the ball very fast and they make it hard for other teams . '' While Papell catches up on some sleep , Pearson has to catch a train to Milan this afternoon , before flying back to England tomorrow morning . `` It was definitely worth it , '' he said . `` It was a European final and they do n't come round every year . '' But if the United and Barcelona do make it to next year 's final , Pearson and Pappell will no doubt be in Madrid to cheer them on .
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Fans Geoff and Ivan traveled to Rome to see the Champions League final . `` The atmosphere at the match was brilliant , '' says United fan Geoff Pearson . `` I 've lost my voice from screaming , '' says Barcelona fan Ivan Papell .
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San Antonio , Texas -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Melissa Coleman has amazing stories to tell and some family members still ca n't get enough of the harrowing tales of her 33 days as a prisoner of war during the first Gulf war . Even 20 years after the start of that war , Coleman can captivate an audience . She tells family friends or her daughters ' classmates about American bombs that struck close to where she was held by her Iraqi captors . `` That was the biggest fear for me , I did n't think the Iraqis were going to kill me , but I was afraid of one of our bombs , '' Coleman tells CNN . Or the story of how the Iraqi soldiers spared her the worst punishment because they were convinced she was an ignorant woman . She outsmarted them anyway . `` I played along with it , '' Coleman says . `` I really do n't know anything . I 'm just a woman . '' But 20 years after her 33 days as a POW , Coleman is fighting another battle : breast cancer . She was diagnosed five months ago and is preparing for a fourth round of chemotherapy . Coleman says being a POW `` helped me keep a positive outlook because I know what I can withstand . '' `` I know that I 've survived something as dangerous , if not more dangerous , so I feel like I 'm going to make it . '' Coleman says her doctors have removed all of the cancerous tumors for now and that she 's been given a `` good '' prognosis . The former Army specialist says she rarely thinks about her days as POW , but during those 33 days , Coleman was one of the most visible faces of the war . Coleman was driving a truck on January 30 , 1991 , near the southern Iraq border . After a couple of confusing wrong turns , Coleman and another soldier riding alongside her found themselves in the middle of a firefight and surrounded by Iraqi soldiers . Her parents , Leo and Joan Rathbun , held vigil from their home outside Grand Rapids , Michigan . It was an excruciating and painful wait . Not knowing if she was still alive , the Rathbun 's received a Valentine 's Day card that she had mailed just hours before being captured . `` When I first heard , I just sat by the TV and just cried the whole rest of the day . So , it was difficult , '' Leo Rathbun says . But then came the 3 a.m. phone call that sent an eruption of joy through the Rathbun 's home . A CNN producer called and told the family to turn on their television . For the first time in 33 days , the Rathbun 's saw their daughter safe and alive being turned over by the Iraqis to the International Red Cross . Looking back through the long lens of time , Coleman 's parents say the POW experience changed their daughter in a fundamental way . `` She 's a lot more serious about life and relationships now than what she was before , '' Joan Rathbun says . `` Everyone means more to her . Life means more to her now . '' Now she lives a quiet life in San Antonio with her husband and two teenage daughters . Her oldest daughter , Briana , wants to join the Army and that 's sparked a minor tug-of-war in the family . Coleman is n't comfortable with the idea , but Briana is n't giving up . The Coast Guard might be an acceptable compromise . That 's the kind of battle Coleman prefers these days , the struggles of raising teenagers and watching her girls prepare to venture out into the world . `` I 'd like to be remembered for being a good mom , '' Coleman says . `` I 'd rather be remembered for that than being a prisoner-of-war . ''
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Melissa Coleman spent 33 days as a prisoner of war during the first Gulf war . Now , Coleman faces another battle : breast cancer . Coleman : Being POW `` helped me keep a positive outlook ''
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- As much as 8 feet of snow has fallen in parts of Japan since Sunday , slowing train travel and forcing automaker Toyota to close down 12 factories . The heavy snow disrupted the bullet train , or Shinkansen , system in central Japan on Sunday and Monday , affecting 67,000 passengers , according to Central Japan Railway . Snow totals on the ground Monday ranged from nearly 3 feet in Shimane Prefecture to 8 feet in Tottori Prefecture , according to CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller . Passengers on the bullet train network also suffered delays Monday due to a problem with a computer control system . The failure disrupted traffic for 75 minutes Monday morning , disrupting bullet trains nationwide for most of Monday morning , according to East Japan Railway . Toyota also had to close 12 factories Monday in Aichi Prefecture as heavy snowfall caused problems getting car parts to the facilities . CNN 's Yoko Wakatsuki contributed to this report .
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Heavy snowfall in parts of Japan temporarily snarled the country 's bullet train system . As much as 8 feet of snow has fallen in parts of the country . The storm also forced Toyota to close some factories because parts could n't be delivered .
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New Delhi , India -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- India set the stage for a new wave of competition in its booming telecom industry Thursday as it allowed its 750 million mobile users to change operators without losing their existing cellphone numbers . Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched the mobile number portability -LRB- MNP -RRB- service , a facility that he said would cost a subscriber as less as Rs . 19 or 41 cents . `` Today 's occasion marks a very important milestone in the evolution of telecommunications in our country , '' Singh said . Home to 1.2 billion people , India has made rapid strides in telecommunications in the last decade . The nation 's mobile subscriber base has now swollen to around 750 million from a mere 33 million in 2004 , Singh said . About 15 million new users are added each month , he added . `` More of our countrymen have been touched by this revolution than by any other program , product or service in the history of our nation and that too at a pace unprecedented in the world at large , '' Singh said . Not too long ago -- until India unleashed economic reforms in the 1990s -- Indians had to wait for years to get landline connections at their homes and businesses from state-run telephone companies . Today , a number of private players are locked in stiff price wars as they jostle for a pie in what is now billed as the world 's fastest-growing telecom market . '' -LRB- The -RRB- implementation of -LRB- the -RRB- MNP will not only give wider choices to the Indian subscribers but will also compel service providers to offer innovative , affordable and competitive tariff plans for the benefit of the masses , '' said the country 's telecommunications ministry . Ironically though , one of the worst corruption scandals to have hit India in recent times is also linked to the same lucrative sector . Singh has come under intense attack from opposition lawmakers after a government audit reported the treasury lost up to $ 31 billion from below-price sale of second-generation wireless spectrum in 2008 . The alleged scam has forced the country 's telecom minister , A. Raja , to step down . Raja , a member of a key regional ally of Singh 's Congress party , denies the charges . Singh insists wrongdoers will be punished .
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India 's mobile subscriber base has swollen to about 750 million , Singh says . In 2004 , there were 33 million , he says . At one time , Indians had to wait for years to get landline connections .
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LONDON , England -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- On the court they have unparalleled balance , grace and power . Unfortunately , for too many NBA stars , life away from the game can be a far trickier proposition . On target : Desmond Mason was one of the stars on the program . This can be particularly the case when it comes to money , despite the stratospheric salaries on offer , currently averaging more than $ 5 million a year , higher than in any other U.S. sport . Some players , it seems , are as adept at signing checks as they are shooting hoops . A report earlier this year cited an internal NBA Player 's Association -LRB- NBPA -RRB- study as showing that more than half ex-basketball pros are broke within five years of retirement , many struggling to maintain expensive lifestyles without the regular salary payments to match . But now one business school hopes to help at least some of the current crop of NBA stars become as business savvy as they are athletic . Illinois-based Northwestern University 's Kellogg School of Management has just hosted its first intake of basketball stars for a four-day executive education program covering topics including business leadership , negotiations , brand building and investing . Jointly developed by the NBPA , the scheme follows a similar program , run for several years by Kellogg and several other schools , which teach business skills to NFL stars -LRB- covered previously on Executive Education -RRB- . While their team mates enjoyed some downtime in the summer off season -- or at least those who were n't winning the men 's Olympic basketball gold in Beijing -- players including Quentin Richardson of the New York Knicks , Desmond Mason of the Milwaukee Bucks and Jeff Foster of the Indiana Pacers headed to the classroom for sessions with some of Kellogg 's top professors . `` It sounds kind of boring , but it 's really not , '' Richardson said afterward . `` There 's a lot of interaction and discussion . '' `` As pro athletes , we 're approached all the time with people saying , ` You can do this or that , just give me the money . ' Now maybe we 'll be a little better equipped to handle the situation , to know whether the person is serious or not , or whether they have really thought it through to see if it really makes sense . '' Mindful of the fact that the average professional basketball career lasts less than five years , the program is intended to both make the most of their earnings while they play and also consider what they might to subsequently . `` We realize that business education is helpful in preparing a person for a career move , especially for professional athletes , '' said Steve Rogers , professor of entrepreneurship at the school , who devised the syllabus , adding that the course does not `` dumb anything down '' for the sports stars . `` The program is optional for these NBA players , so their commitment level is high and they want to learn these business principles . '' Rogers now hopes to devise similar programs for other pro sports players in hockey , auto racing and other fields .
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New business school program teaches business to NBA stars . Players learn brand building , investment and negotiation . Teaching comes from top faculty at a leading U.S. business school .
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Washington -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The White House will announce a new economic advisory council on Friday , one that will be headed by Jeffrey Immelt , the CEO and chairman of General Electric . `` Because we still have a long way to go to get Americans back to work and strengthen our economy , the President will announce on Friday that he will sign a new Executive Order creating a new board , the President 's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness , which will have a new composition and new mission as we move to a new phase in our economic recovery , '' a White House statement said . `` The Council will focus on finding new ways to promote growth by investing in American business to encourage hiring , to educate and train our workers to compete globally , and to attract the best jobs and businesses to the United States . '' The council replaces the old Economic Recovery Advisory Board that was headed by Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker . `` President Obama has asked me to chair his new President 's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness , '' Immelt said in a Washington Post op-ed piece published Friday . `` I have served for the past two years on the President 's Economic Recovery Advisory Board , and I look forward to leading the next phase of this effort as we transition from recovery to long-term growth . `` The president and I are committed to a candid and full dialogue among business , labor and government to help ensure that the United States has the most competitive and innovative economy in the world , '' he said . `` Jeff Immelt 's experience at GE and his understanding of the vital role the private sector plays in creating jobs and making America competitive makes him up to the challenge of leading this new Council , '' President Barack Obama said in a statement . `` I also want to thank my friend Paul Volcker , whose service not just during this difficult period but for decades has been invaluable to me and the American people . '' The development is the latest in a series of economic policy moves made by the White House in the new year . Two weeks ago , the president tapped Treasury aide Gene Sperling as the new director of the National Economic Council . Sperling , who succeeds economist Larry Summers as head of the council , currently is a counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner . Among other things , he helped lead the administration 's tax negotiations with congressional Republicans during December 's lame-duck session of Congress . Sperling also headed the National Economic Council during the Clinton administration . Top Democrats are pointing to Obama 's decision to have him head the council as another sign the president is leaning more heavily on Clinton-era veterans as he starts working with a divided Congress . Obama also named Clinton Commerce Secretary Bill Daley as his new chief of staff this month . The U.S. economy continues to try to dig itself out of the job losses created by the recession that began in 2008 . In its most-recent unemployment report , the Labor Department said the U.S. economy added 103,000 jobs in December , while the unemployment rate fell from 9.8 % to 9.4 % . Obama noted that there have now been 12 months of private-sector job growth for the first time since 2006 . A CNN/Opinion Research poll shows at least three-quarters of Americans consider economic conditions to be somewhat poor or very poor . CNN 's Greg Clary contributed to this report .
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The White House creates the President 's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness . Jeffrey Immelt , the CEO and chairman of General Electric , will lead the group . The U.S. unemployment rate lingers between 9 % and 10 % .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Mexico bounced back from two successive defeats to beat Trinidad and Tobago 2-1 on Wednesday and keep alive hopes of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup finals . Mexico 's match-winner Oscar Rojas tussles with Trinidad and Tobago 's goalscorer Hayden Tinto . The result lifted the Mexicans up to fourth place in the six-team CONCACAF group , from which only the top three nations automatically progress to next year 's showpiece in South Africa . If Javier Aguirre 's side can not do any better than the position they find themselves at the halfway stage of the qualifying schedule , then a two-leg play-off against the fifth-best team from the South American group will follow . Mexico , on six points , are one behind third-placed Honduras , who defeated El Salvador 1-0 on Wednesday thanks to a 14th-minute winner from Carlos Pavon . Aguirre experienced a much more positive result than his first match in charge , a 2-1 defeat away to El Salvador on Saturday . In Mexico City , Guillermo Franco gave the hosts a perfect start when he cut in from the right and beat goalkeeper Clayton Ince . However , Hayden Tinto made Mexico pay for missing several chances when he pounced on a defensive mistake and fired into the top corner on the stroke of halftime . But Oscar Rojas netted a long-range winner three minutes after the interval to leave the bottom-placed Soca Warriors with just two draws from five outings . Costa Rica top the group on 12 points , two ahead of the United States .
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Mexico bounce back from two successive defeats to beat Trinidad and Tobago . Javier Aguirre experiences first victory since taking over again with 2-1 triumph . The result puts Mexico up to fourth in six-team CONCACAF group at halfway . Honduras move up to third position in the group after defeating El Salvador 1-0 .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro is rejoining Juventus after three years at Real Madrid , the Serie A club announced on their Web site on Tuesday . Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro won two Primera Liga titles during his three-year stay at Real Madrid . News of Cannavaro 's return comes less than 24 hours after the Turin-based club sacked coach Claudio Ranieri and replaced him with former player and youth coach Ciro Ferrara . The 35-year-old Cannavaro was voted world player of the year after leading Italy to World Cup glory in 2006 and has helped Real to achieve two title triumphs during his stay in Spain . Cannavaro was in Italy on Monday for a charity match and told the Juventus Web site : `` I am happy to have returned to Turin and to have the opportunity to wear the black and white jersey again . `` I am sorry that for a section of the fans the anger for having been transferred is greater then the appreciation for the glorious seasons which we lived together . `` I am sure that I can convince the most sceptical through my work , professionalism and the passion with which I will face this new adventure '' . Defender Cannavaro won two scudetti with Juventus , in 2005 and 2006 , while the side are currently fighting to clinch third place behind champions Inter and their city rivals AC Milan . His one-year contract will come into force as from the start of July and club official Alessio Secco enthused : `` Fabio is a world champion , a golden ball winner and a great team-spirit builder . `` During the Summer of 2006 the club was forced to sell him due to great economic necessities . `` This year we took advantage of the natural expiration of Cannavaro 's contract to bring him back to Turin and we are sure that his technical abilities will help Juventus become more competitive '' . Cannavaro left Juventus after the club had been relegated to Serie B following the match-fixing allegations that rocked Italian football . He was born in Naples and played for them for three seasons before joining Parma where he won the UEFA Cup and two Italian Cups over a seven year period from 1995 . Cannavaro , who has 124 caps for Italy , left Parma to join Inter Milan in 2002 but after only two seasons moved on to Juventus . New coach Ferrara is determined to take Juve straight into next season 's Champions League group stage and said on Monday : `` I think the players need to understand that we 're in a tight spot . `` They need to rediscover the right motivation to tackle our last two matches with the right attitude . The players need to rediscover their pride and the right motivation . ''
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Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro rejoining Juve after three years at Real Madrid . News comes less than 24 hours after the club sacked coach Claudio Ranieri . Defender Cannavaro , 35 , won two scudetti with Juventus , in 2005 and 2006 .
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SEOUL , South Korea -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- As a symbol of national pride and success , South Korea and Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-Sung , carries more weight on his shoulders than the need to perform . South Korea 's Park Ji-Sung celebrates after at the 2006 World Cup against France . Park , once rejected from his country 's own K-League , is now considered the ambassador of Korean football . A responsibility he seems to able carry . `` I want to push my way through Manchester United 's star players and put my name on the list of the best 11 team . Park Ji-Sung talks to CNN . `` I want to show the world how good Korean players are by playing well in the top flight , '' Park wrote in his book `` Neverending Challenge '' before he joined United . Park 's autobiography , which illustrates his life as a football player since he started out at the age of ten , became a bestseller after being published in 2006 . It is no surprise . Park is a celebrity in South Korea and is swamped with fans wherever he goes . His hometown , Suwon , near to Seoul , built a park and named a road after Park to commemorate him becoming the first Premier League-r in South Korean history . Park may even become the first Asian to win a Championship League medal after this season . Nicknamed `` Three-lung Park '' for his seemingly overflowing energy supply , the South Korean papers plaster their front pages with Park if he scores and give out the smallest details of how many minutes he ran in each match . But Park 's football career had not really drawn much attention until the recent years . He was mostly unknown to the public until he scored the winning goal to defeat Portugal in the 2002 World Cup in which South Korea reached the semifinals for the first time ever . `` People like him because there 's a touching story behind him , '' football commentator Park Moon Sung at SBS , one of Korea 's major broadcasters , said . `` They can see how this player , who never really got much attention , is maturing over the years . '' The South Korea player , after receiving no calls from the K-League , started his professional career in Japan with Kyoto Purple in 2000 . It was only after the 2002 World Cup that he joined PSV Eindhoven and proceeded to join Manchester United in 2005 . Park has so far managed to keep his private life out of spotlight , most likely due to his quiet personality , a quality that is also reflected in his performances . `` He 's someone who pumps energy into the entire team . He 's not like a magician who can save the team from its worst moments with dazzling skills , '' the SBS commentator said . `` It 's more like he plays for the others and brings the team together which is something very much needed in a team like Manchester United with all its stars . '' Park 's joining of Manchester United has enriched the football culture in Korea . Many who started watching European games because of Park have now become avid fans . `` I would like Park Ji-Sung to become a symbol of challenge for all Koreans , '' 30-year-old Kim Young Woo , who is a great fan of Park , said . Kim said he admires Park for never giving up and admits to watching at least 70 percent of all Manchester United games even if it means staying up until three in the morning on weekdays . `` I think young people will look at him and tell themselves that they want to take on challenges , too , '' Kim said . Something Park wants to see as well . The midfielder signed on a deal to build a Park Ji-Sung football center in his hometown fully equipped with training areas and football fields . He believes there should be a better future for Korean football .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Hosts Qatar have qualified for the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup after a comfortable 3-0 win over Group A strugglers Kuwait at the Khalifa Stadium . Goals from Bilal Mohammed -- who headed home after 12 minutes -- and Mohamed El Sayed -LRB- 16th minute -RRB- gave Bruno Metsu 's men a comfortable lead which they never looked like letting slip . Fabio Cesar rounded the evening off in style with a well-taken free kick in the 86th minute to seal their second win of this year 's competition . Iran first into Asian Cup quarterfinals . Meanwhile , China -- Qatar 's rivals for the runners-up spot in Group A -- could only draw 2-2 against group winners Uzbekistan meaning they crash out of the tournament early yet again . Yu Hai gave China the lead in the seventh minute only for the Uzbeks to mount a comeback . Strikes from Akhmedov on the half hour and CSKA Moscow forward Alexander Geynrih shortly after the break saw them take the lead . But it was short lived as Junmin executed a brilliant free kick to level the scores . Qatar will now face the team who finish top of Group B , which looks likely to be Japan -- one of the favorites to win the tournament .
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Qatar ease through to the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup with 3-0 victory over Kuwait . Goals from Bilal Mohammed , Mohamed El Sayed and Fabio Cesar secured win for hosts . China draw 2-2 with Group A winners Uzbekistan to crash out of the tournament . Qatar to face winners of Group B in last eight with Japan appearing the likely opponents .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Veteran Dutch goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar will retire at the end of this season , according to his Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson . Earlier this month United confirmed the signing of Anders Lindegaard from Aalesunds FK , and Ferguson has now admitted the 26-year-old Dane is likely to replace van der Sar as the English club 's No. 1 next season . `` We are planning for this being Edwin 's last season . But even if he finishes as a player , he might stay at the club because of his knowledge and standing in the game , '' Ferguson told reporters on Thursday . Lindegaard has signed a three-and-a-half-year deal for an undisclosed fee and he will be formally registered in the January transfer window . Ferguson added : `` He is training with us now and that is important . It will bring him to a better level of fitness because he has not played for a few weeks . We will see how his progress goes . '' Meanwhile , Aston Villa manager Gerard Houllier has confirmed he will decide on the future of veteran American goalkeeper Brad Friedel in February . The 39-year-old Friedel is close to becoming the oldest player to ever appear for the Premier League club , but his contract expires at the end of the season and Houllier has admitted he is looking for a new custodian . `` We are looking at several goalkeepers and we 've told Brad we are looking for a keeper for the future , '' the Frenchman told reporters on Thursday . `` If Brad is fine in February , then we will keep him . We 've told him that , if he feels OK . ''
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Alex Ferguson expects veteran Dutch goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar to retire . The 40-year-old is likely to hang up his boots at the end of the current season . Manchester United have already signed Danish goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard . Aston Villa manager considers future of veteran U.S. goalkeeper Brad Friedel .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Titleholders Inter Milan will take on Bayern Munich in the last 16 of the Champions League after Friday 's draw produced a repeat of last season 's final . Italian side Inter went into the pot knowing that a tie with one of Europe 's top sides was likely after qualifying for the knockout stages in second place in Group A behind Tottenham . `` It 's an interesting draw , '' Inter chairman Massimo Moratti told the club 's official website . `` We 've faced Bayern Munich lots of times in the past , it 's almost a traditional fixture . '' Rafael Benitez 's side will have home advantage for the first leg , which will be played in February , while the trip to Germany will take place in March . Bayern , beaten 2-0 in May 's final when Jose Mourinho was in charge of Inter , have struggled in the Bundesliga but topped Group E with five wins from six matches . `` Inter is an extremely tough draw . Probably the most difficult draw open to us , '' Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge told the club 's website . `` But it 's also a very appealing draw for us . This is now our chance to take revenge . '' Barcelona will play English club Arsenal in a repeat of the 2006 final and last season 's quarterfinals , both of which were won by the Spanish champions . `` Difficult but possible , '' was Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger 's reaction to the draw . `` I did n't want anybody really , all teams would have been difficult , '' he told his club 's official website . `` Barcelona are certainly the favorites but they did not want us either because they know they will get a game . '' Barca 's Spanish rivals Real Madrid have the chance to avenge last season 's second-round defeat by French club Lyon , who went on to reach the semifinals . Mourinho will seek to take his expensively-assembled team past the last-16 stage for the first time since 2004 as Real bid for a 10th title . Madrid legend Emilio Butragueno , who was present at the draw , believes his former club will reach the later stages of the competition this year . `` This is a cruel but thrilling competition . We drew Lyon and must accept it , '' he said on Real 's website . `` We must be very focused . We are more than capable of making the quarterfinals . '' English club Tottenham 's reward for finishing top in Group A in their first appearance in the competition is another trip to Italy to face AC Milan . The Serie A leaders , who finished second behind Real in Group G , are seeking an eighth title , having last won it in 2007 . Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp described the match as a `` great challenge . '' `` I said before the draw that I would n't mind playing AC Milan , '' he told the London side 's website . `` You want to take on the best teams in the world , and that 's what the fans want to see as well . '' Three-time champions Manchester United will travel to France next month for the first leg against 1993 winners Marseille . Manager Alex Ferguson told the United website it would be a `` difficult tie '' . `` Marseille are a handful at their own ground , their fantastic atmosphere and incredible support guarantees that . They 've had a good change in fortunes in the last two or three years , '' he said . English rivals Chelsea , who also topped their group , will face Copenhagen -- the first Danish team to reach the knockout stages after finishing second in Group D behind Barcelona . But Chelsea chief executive Ron Gourlay said the Premier League champions would not underestimate their opponents . '' ` There 's no easy games at this stage and we 'll be very careful , '' he told the club 's website . Shakhtar Donetsk will also face a last-16 tie for the first time after topping Group H ahead of Arsenal , and the Ukrainian side will travel to the Italian capital to play AS Roma in next month 's first leg . German club Schalke , who topped Group B ahead of Lyon , will travel to Spain for the first leg of their second-round clash with Valencia -- second behind Manchester United in Group C. Champions League last-16 draw . AS Roma -LRB- Italy -RRB- v Shakhtar Donetsk -LRB- Ukraine -RRB- AC Milan -LRB- Italy -RRB- v Tottenham -LRB- England -RRB- Valencia -LRB- Spain -RRB- v Schalke -LRB- Germany -RRB- Inter Milan -LRB- Italy -RRB- v Bayern Munich -LRB- Germany -RRB- Lyon -LRB- France -RRB- v Real Madrid -LRB- Spain -RRB- Arsenal -LRB- England -RRB- v Barcelona -LRB- Spain -RRB- Marseille -LRB- France -RRB- v Manchester United -LRB- England -RRB- Copenhagen -LRB- Denmark -RRB- v Chelsea -LRB- England -RRB- . First leg to be played on February 15-16 and 22-23 Second leg on March 8-9 and 15-16 .
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Bayern Munich handed chance to avenge Champions League final defeat . German champions will take on titleholders Inter Milan in the second round . Barcelona drawn with Arsenal in repeat of last season 's quarters and 2006 final . Real Madrid will play Lyon in a repeat of last season 's last-16 defeat to the French club .
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Teresopolis , Brazil -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Leticia Lima was buried up to her neck in mud . Her forehead was crushed and her teeth knocked out . `` I remember my mother shouting , and a loud noise . I hugged my baby tight . That 's the last thing I remember , '' she said , lying bandaged in a hospital bed . Her baby and her mother did n't make it . They were among at least 759 people killed after flooding and massive mudslides flattened houses and wiped out entire neighborhoods in hillside towns of Rio de Janeiro state last week . Other states in the South American country have also seen heavy rainfall . Last week , authorities in neighboring Sao Paulo state said 24 people had been killed by flooding . Victims like Leticia Lima repeat stories of loss and survival throughout the Clinical Hospital of Teresopolis -- located in one of the hardest hit cities . `` On the first day , we treated 178 people in less than 12 hours , '' hospital director Rosane Rodrigues Costa said . Liziel Madureira was one of them . He managed to grab his 5-year-old son , but saw half of his family swept away . He then went on to save his neighbor and her three children . `` I would do it all again , '' he said . `` What else could I do ? '' His 18-year-old daughter Erica also survived -- by climbing into a refrigerator . `` It shook and shook , '' she said . `` I opened the door and it was floating . '' She cried as she recounted the experience , and said the family was still searching for her mother 's body . As the rains subside , donations are pouring in from around the country . A gymnasium in Teresopolis is packed with stacks of clothes , water , rice and beans . Residents said they are starting to think about the future . Erica has hope because she made it this far . But she said she is worried . She is the only woman left in her family .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Kim Clijsters has regained the WTA Tour Championship title , seven years after last winning it , after a hard-fought three-set victory over Caroline Wozniacki in Doha , Qatar on Sunday . Belgian Clijsters , who was lifting the trophy for a third time following back-to-back wins in 2002 and 2003 , beat world number one Wozniacki 6-3 5-7 6-3 in a thrilling two hour and 20 minute clash . It marked a remarkable return for 27-year-old Clijsters , who was appearing in her first tournament since retaining her U.S. Open title seven weeks ago , following a foot operation . Is Wozniacki a worthy world number one ? `` It was a very tough battle , and I think it was a fine advert for women 's tennis , '' Clijsters told reporters . `` I 'm glad I won but I do n't know how many more years I will play -- and I think Caroline has a great future ahead of her , '' added Clijsters . Dane Wozniacki , who will end the year as number one following six WTA Tour titles this season , said : `` It was still a fantastic week for me . `` I would love to come back here , and I would love to try for this title once again . '' Meanwhile , Sunday saw three ATP Tour finals take place around Europe with home favorite Gael Monfils claiming his third career title with a 6-2 5-7 6-1 win over Croatia 's Ivan Ljubicic in the final of the inaugural Montpellier tournament . World number 15 Monfils has been beaten in both of his two previous final appearances this year , in Stuttgart and Tokyo . Elsewhere , top seed and world number 12 Jurgen Melzer fought back from the brink of defeat to see off fellow-Austrian Andreas Haider-Maurer 6-7 7-6 6-4 to win the Austria Tennis Trophy in Vienna for the second year in a row . And there was a surprise in the final of the St Petersburg Open in Russia when unseeded Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan shocked top seed Mikhail Youzhny to win his maiden ATP title . The 22-year-old from Astana completed a 6-3 7-6 victory after two hours and 25 minutes of play .
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Kim Clijsters regains the WTA Tour Championship title after beating Caroline Wozniacki . The 27-year-old Belgian wins 6-3 5-7 6-3 to regain the title she last won in 2003 . Despite the defeat , Dane Wozniacki will still complete the year as world No. 1 .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Samantha Stosur stopped Caroline Wozniacki from clinching the year-end women 's No. 1 tennis ranking with a shock 6-4 6-3 victory at the WTA Championships in Qatar on Wednesday night . The Australian romped to her second straight victory in the Maroon Group , following her revenge win over French Open champion Francesca Schiavone on Tuesday . The Roland Garros runner-up 's kick serve was a potent weapon against Wozniacki , with the triumph giving the 26-year-old every chance of reaching the semifinals ahead of her final group match against Russia 's Elena Dementieva on Thursday . It was her second victory over a top-ranked player this year , having beaten Serena Williams on the way to reaching the final in Paris . The fifth seed fired 26 winners to Wozniacki 's 14 , and could afford to serve two double-faults in the deciding game before the Dane returned a backhand long on her first match-point . Wozniacki , who thrashed seventh seed Dementieva on Tuesday , will next take on Italy 's Schiavone on Thursday . Kim Clijsters , who won the $ 4.5 million season-ending event in 2002 and 2003 , earlier triumphed in her opening White Group match 6-2 6-3 against fellow former No. 1 Jelena Jankovic despite serving 10 double-faults . The Belgian , returning to action after having a mole cut off her foot , broke Jankovic to love in the first game of the match and then again in the seventh . The three-time U.S. Open champion was less impressive in the second set but had enough to see off the Serbian , who is struggling with illness in the oppressive heat in Doha . `` It was n't my best tennis , but it was good enough . I felt I did a lot of good things , and there are a few things I need to tweak . The more matches I get , the better it will go , '' said Clijsters , who plays eighth seed Victoria Azarenka on Thursday . Azarenka was disappointed after squandering a great chance to upset second-seeded Russian Vera Zvonareva , with the Belarusian losing 7-6 -LRB- 7-4 -RRB- 6-4 in the day 's first match despite leading by a break in both sets . `` I had a lot of chances and was very unlucky in some moments . There were like one million nets from her side , '' Sunday 's Kremlin Cup champion told the event 's official website . `` It 's part of the game though . I think I played a good match and I 'm still in the group -- I still have chances to play further . I 'm going to keep fighting and trying to do my best . `` It 's very humid here . Sometimes your racquet just slips out of your hands . It 's the same conditions for everybody , but I had less time to prepare than anybody else . I 'm still happy to be here and I have to regroup from today . '' It was Zvonareva 's second successive win , following her victory over Jankovic on Tuesday , and she is the only player in the eight-woman field who can overtake the 20-year-old Wozniacki in the rankings . `` It 's maybe one of the longest straight-set matches I 've ever played . We 've played so many times before , I 'm just happy to get through , '' said Zvonareva , who trailed 4-2 in the first set and 3-1 in the second before winning in one hour 45 minutes . Meanwhile , the United States has named former men 's No. 1 player Jim Courier as the successor to Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe . The 40-year-old , who twice won the teams event as a player , takes charge ahead of next March 's World Group first-round clash with Chile . McEnroe had been captain for 10 years , but stood down last month . The U.S. lost 3-2 to Serbia in the opening round in March .
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World No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki beaten by Samantha Stosur at WTA Championships . Australian wins her second successive match , while Dane suffers first defeat . Kim Clijsters wins on return from injury and second seed Vera Zvonareva also triumphs . Jim Courier appointed as captain of United States men 's team for the Davis Cup .
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-LRB- CNN Student News -RRB- -- August 19 , 2010 . Download PDF maps related to today 's show : . • Pakistan • South Africa • Georgia . 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 : Well , you 've made it to Thursday . I 'm Carl Azuz . This is CNN Student News ! Your hearing : Listen up , 'cause we 're gon na be talking about that in just a bit . We start off today , though , in Pakistan . First Up : Pakistan Aid . AZUZ : Severe flooding has left 20 percent -- one fifth -- of the country underwater , and officials are worried about the threat of disease . A lot of the victims are walking through dirty flood waters , and that can lead to the spread of things like cholera or typhoid . Experts are estimating that as many as 3.5 million children are at risk of getting sick . Of course , the most immediate concern is aid : food , medical supplies . The United Nations has asked for $ 460 million from the international community . Only about half of that has been raised so far . U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to announce today that the United States will be sending more aid to Pakistan . Sara Sidner has more on the relief efforts . SARA SIDNER , CNN CORRESPONDENT : We 're here off the shores of Karachi on the USS Peleliu with the Expeditionary Strike Group 5 . It is their whole mission to make sure to be available when there is some sort of disaster . They patrol these waters , and they were in the area to help those in the flood zones in Pakistan . They 've been able to get about 5,000 people out of those flood zones , rescuing them with helicopters . They 've also been able to drop about a half million pounds of aid . They say they will be here for as long as it takes . There are more helicopters coming in ; there are more ships coming in . The U.S. says that it has a humanitarian commitment that they 're going to make to Pakistan . They 've already given about $ 90 million in kind . But the U.N. continually saying that there is simply not enough aid being offered to this country . South Africa Strike . AZUZ : More international news for you now , our next story taking us to South Africa , the country that hosted the World Cup this past summer . If you watched any of that , you saw huge crowds of people . And the nation 's streets are crowded again . This time , it 's with South African workers who are on strike . People who work in the public sector -- hospital employees , teachers , federal workers -- walked off the job all across South Africa yesterday . Organizers have threatened that this strike will go on indefinitely . They want the government to give them more pay and better benefits . South African officials say those demands just ca n't be met right now . They 're worried about the impact of this nationwide strike , though . They claim it could end up hurting the entire country , including the very people who are protesting . What 's the Word . TOMEKA JONES , CNN STUDENT NEWS : What 's the word ? a man-made item from an older time period . It 's an ARTIFACT . That 's the word ! Civil War Discovery . AZUZ : Artifacts are n't always big or spectacular . Sometimes simple items , like a button or fork , those can be important , too . They can offer clues about a culture , a civilization we did n't know much about before . In fact , some scientists think a huge collection of artifacts that was recently discovered in the state of Georgia could offer clues about what life was like in a Civil War prison camp . Camp Lawton : If you have n't heard of that , you 're not alone . It 's not very well known because it was only open for six weeks . But recently , a group of college students found it , and they found hundreds of artifacts from prisoners there . Buttons , bullets , coins , a pipe . Some of these artifacts will go on display soon . And the reason why experts think this finding is so significant is that the site barely seems to have been touched . A lot of Civil War sites get torn up by people hunting for relics ; not so at Camp Lawton . Is This Legit ? APRIL WILLIAMS , CNN STUDENT NEWS : Is this legit ? Your ear is part of your olfactory system . Not legit ! It 's part of your auditory system , your sense of hearing . Hearing Loss Study . AZUZ : Well , that sense may be getting worse , especially for you all . And as somebody who played the drums in middle and high school , I sympathize with you . There 's a new study out about 12 to 19 year olds . It found that the number of teens who suffer from early signs of hearing loss is going up dramatically . We want you to look at these statistics ; they 're pretty surprising . Back in 1994 , around one in every 20 teens had some kind of hearing loss . By 2006 , that number was up to one in every 5 . That means about 6.5 million teens experience hearing loss . So the next question is , why ? What is causing this increase ? Researchers say that 's what they need to focus on in the future . One of the authors of this study , though , was asked if technology might be part of the reason . DR. JOSEF SHARGORODSKY , BRIGHAM AND WOMEN 'S HOSPITAL : Is it the iPod ? From our study , in specific , it is actually -- we can not say what the cause is of this increase from our data . Of course , the world around us is getting louder . You can stand in a busy intersection in New York , for example , and get sound levels that are dangerously high if you are exposed to it for a prolonged period of time . You can also get it from driving in a convertible on the highway . And so , of course , teenagers are using headphones and are using portable music devices now that they have not been using previously . And so , that 's certainly one possibility . New Orleans Rising . AZUZ : Five years ago this month , Hurricane Katrina slammed into America 's Gulf Coast region . `` New Orleans Rising '' -- a new CNN documentary -- tells the story of one neighborhood 's struggle to rebuild after the storm . The program airs on CNN this Saturday and Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern . And CNN Student News has put together a teacher and parent guide to go along with the show . You can find them in the Spotlight section at CNNStudentNews.com . Blackout Danger . AZUZ : When the power goes out , a lot of times it 's because of that huge lightning storm outside your window . If lightning hits a power line , you 're in the dark . But there are times when it seems like blackouts happen when there is n't a single cloud in sight . Allan Chernoff sheds some light on why some of us could see more days in the dark . -LRB- BEGIN VIDEO -RRB- . ALLAN CHERNOFF , CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT , NEW YORK : Sizzling temperatures as much of a strain on the power system as on the public . Why does the power system always strain when the temperature soars ? It 's our electricity grid system , which was not designed for today 's demands . Matthew Cordaro , a former chief executive of two power companies , warns that the system is at risk . MATTHEW CORDARO , ENERGY EXPERT : We are nowhere near where we have absolute certainty that we can avoid a major outage or a disturbance . It 's not that it will happen every day , but indeed a strong possibility that that could occur . CHERNOFF : When the heat is on and air conditioners are on full blast to fight it , power demand can overburden circuits and transformers that allow electricity to travel from power plants across transmission lines and into your home . ARSHAD MANSOOR , ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INST. : The circuits and the transformers , they do n't have the time to cool down , so they get overloaded . An overloaded circuit could cause an outage . CHERNOFF : President Obama , aware of the problem , last year committed $ 3.5 billion in stimulus money to modernize the grid . But it is only about two percent of what the power industry would have to invest for a smart grid . And much of the government money has yet to be spent . New York 's Con Edison recently put off a plan to install smart grid equipment in part of Manhattan . It 's a disappointment to a Massachusetts company that supplies high capacity power cables , superconductors that can protect against dangerous power surges . JASON FREDETTE , AMERICAN SUPERCONDUCTOR CORP. : Superconductors are a key component of those smart grids in Korea , in China . And here in the U.S. , we need to do the same thing , and we urgently need to update our grid . CHERNOFF : Smart grid technology would allow utilities to see precise , real-time demand from every customer , so they could take action to minimize the risk of an outage . But most power companies have only just begun such an upgrade . In fact , the North American Electric Reliability Corporation says that two regions are especially vulnerable : Colorado , suffering from drought conditions that are reducing power output from the Hoover Dam power plant ; and south central Louisiana , where transmission lines need upgrades to improve reliability . -LRB- END VIDEO -RRB- . Before We Go . AZUZ : And finally today , we 're gon na go ahead and call in the B-team . Yes , that is a pun . All 50,000 members of the B-team . You know they work well together ; you 've had honey before . This time , they teamed up to trap a police officer inside his car for 3 hours ! Officer is totally fine . But can you imagine being trapped in your car by bees in the summer heat ? You know that 's got ta be swarm . Eventually , some experts came out to box up the bees and free the deputy . Goodbye . AZUZ : Which put an end to this arresting development . Arres-sting : That 's a two-for-one ! You ca n't beee-at that . Next time , they should just call out the swat unit ! Okay , we 'll buzz off . But just 'til tomorrow . If you watched CNN Student News last year , you know that Fridays are awesome . I 'm Carl Azuz . We will see you then . Thanks for joining us .
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Learn about the U.S. role in efforts to get aid to flood victims in Pakistan . Find out why experts are excited about newly-discovered Civil War artifacts . Shed some light on why extreme heat could leave many Americans in the dark . Use the Daily Discussion to help students understand today 's featured news stories .
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Cap-Haitien , Haiti -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Haiti reported more cholera deaths Wednesday as chaos reigned in this country 's second-largest city , and cases among people who had traveled from Haiti were reported in Florida and the Dominican Republic . At least six people were wounded in related violence in Haiti . Photos : Cholera in Haiti . The cholera-infected woman who had recently traveled from Haiti to Florida was recovering , the Florida Department of Health said . Her case was identified through the state 's disease surveillance system and sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta , Georgia , where it was confirmed , the state health department said . Florida , home to about 241,000 Haiti-born residents , has asked local health care providers to watch for people who become sick or show symptoms of cholera after returning from travel to Haiti . `` We are working with our health care partners to ensure appropriate care of this individual and prevent the spread of this disease within the community , '' said State Surgeon General Ana Viamonte Ros . `` We will continue to monitor the state for any future cases . '' The first confirmed case in the Dominican Republic was a 32-year-old Haitian construction worker who returned Friday from Haiti with symptoms of the illness , the health ministry said Tuesday night . The man , who was vomiting and had diarrhea , was hospitalized in Higuey , near the eastern resort town of Punta Cana , said Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez . The man was in stable condition , according to the newspaper El Nacional . According to data provided by the Caribbean countries , the Dominican Republic is the second-most popular Caribbean destination for American tourists , only behind Cancun , Mexico . More than 900,000 Americans have visited the island through August of this year . However , tourism and public health experts said that at the moment , the risk to tourists in the Dominican Republic were minimal . Neither case was a surprise , said Dr. Jordan Tappero , team leader in Haiti for the CDC in Port-au-Prince . `` CDC has been expecting to see cholera cases elsewhere in the region , including the United States , '' he told CNN in a telephone interview . But he said cholera was unlikely to spread widely in the United States or in the Dominican Republic , since both countries have public health infrastructures -- i.e. , chlorinated drinking water and intact sewage lines -- that are more robust than those in Haiti . In addition , health officials in the Dominican Republic , which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti , have been watching the epidemic spread across Haiti for several weeks , during which they have been preparing by putting into place a surveillance system and educating the populace about what to do if they should come down with symptoms , he said . `` We are very hopeful that the magnitude of the cholera problem in the Dominican Republic will not be on the scale of Haiti , '' Tappero said . `` Diligence in public health messaging and people doing the right thing with water and food preparation and managing waste is going to be critical to that success . '' In Haiti , the outbreak had claimed 1,110 lives , the health ministry reported Wednesday . Another 18,382 people had been hospitalized with the disease . The hospital death rate was 4.0 percent , far above the 0.0 to 1.0 percent that infectious disease experts said they expect in developed countries . `` It 's telling me that the treatment is not optimal in the hospitals , '' said Dr. Eugene Gangarosa , a professor emeritus at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta . `` It leaves something to be desired . '' The risk factors in Haiti make that country `` a perfect storm '' for the disease to spread , Gangarosa said . He cited `` a highly susceptible population , crowding , flawed infrastructure and a virulent strain '' of the bacteria , which the CDC reported this month as having resistance against some drugs commonly used to fight the infection , though other commonly used drugs -- including tetracycline -- are effective against it . Though a vaccine against cholera exists , `` health authorities generally have mixed feelings because it is expensive , it has some serious limitations and mobilizing the population to get the vaccine is problematic , '' Gangarosa said . Aid agencies appealed for calm in the northern port city of Cap-Haitien , where angry demonstrators accused United Nations peacekeepers of starting the outbreak . Residents erected burning barricades , then hid in alleyways and pelted convoys of armored personnel carriers driven by United Nations peacekeepers as they drove past . Cap-Haitien convulsed in a third straight day of violence . At Hopital Universitaire , the city 's main hospital , doctors treated a patient with a gunshot wound on Wednesday afternoon . Soon after , wheelbarrows holding two more patients were rolled into the hospital . One man had an apparent bullet wound to the chest , the other a bullet wound through the leg . `` MINUSTAH shot them , '' said a man pushing one of the wheelbarrows and referring to the U.N. forces in Haiti by their acronym . During the night , a medical worker told CNN that the hospital had received three more patients with gunshot wounds . The violence occurred as medical workers struggled to cope with a dramatic increase of patients infected with cholera . At a basketball stadium that has been turned into a makeshift cholera treatment center , Dr. Esther Sterk of the humanitarian group Medecins Sans Frontieres -LRB- MSF , known in English as Doctors Without Borders -RRB- estimated nearly 200 new patients had arrived overnight . At noon , an elderly woman joined the arrivals , her head slumping as she was rolled in a wheelbarrow through the gates of the compound . The stadium was packed with patients on cots , many of them being rehydrated with intravenous fluids . Those patients who did not fit into the main area were being quartered in a hallway underneath the stadium risers . MSF workers said a child died overnight at the stadium . They also said that some patients had been unable to reach the treatment center , their way blocked by protesters who continued to prevent most cars and trucks from traveling the streets of this port city . At one of the burning barricades in the center of town , angry residents chanted in Creole for the United Nations to go away as white U.N. armored-personnel carriers rolled through piles of burning garbage . The United Nations has a peacekeeping force of more than 10,000 foreign police and soldiers deployed in Haiti . The global body has denied Haitian assertions that Nepalese peacekeepers had introduced the cholera bacteria to Haiti . Aid workers said the tense situation on the streets of Cap Haitien was hampering medical and logistical efforts . Aid agencies have suspended clean water projects to slum areas , and canceled flights to deliver soap and other supplies to affected areas , a statement from aid agencies said . Supplies in Cap-Haitien were running out and the medical staff was overwhelmed as cholera mortality numbers climbed , said Nigel Fisher , coordinator for humanitarian action for the United Nations . `` We call upon all involved in these clearly orchestrated demonstrations to stop immediately so national and international partners can continue to save lives with our response to the cholera , '' Fisher said . `` Every day we lose means hospitals go without supplies , patients go untreated and people remain ignorant of the danger they are facing . It is vital that everything possible is done to contain this outbreak in Cap-Haitien while we still can -- but this is very difficult in the current environment . '' Stefano Zannini , head of the MSF mission in Haiti , said the organization 's medical staff members were able to continue treating patients in Cap-Haitien as they have been for the last 10 days . But , he said , `` it is not an easy environment to work in . '' In the capital , Port-au-Prince , Zannini said the number of cases MSF is treating has increased significantly . In the northern slum of Cite Soleil , MSF doctors were seeing 10 times the number of patients than they were seeing last week , he said . MSF has been increasing bed capacity every day and hoped to raise it to 800 by the end of Wednesday , Zannini said . `` It 's not enough , '' he said . As capacity rises , so do the number of patients . Meanwhile , the Clinton Foundation announced Wednesday that it has committed $ 1.5 million for cholera response in Haiti . The foundation said in a news release that it plans to partner with Haiti 's health ministry to train 10,000 community public health workers across the country . Also , it will purchase and distribute 10,000 portable treatment packs containing oral hydration salts , soap , aqua tabs , chlorine , hand sanitizer , garbage bags , educational material and stationery . The other $ 500,000 will be spent on a national awareness campaign . `` The recent outbreak of cholera is a devastating development for the people of Haiti , and serves as an important reminder of all that remains to be done in our work to help Haiti build back better after the earthquake , '' said former President Bill Clinton . The last cholera epidemic in the Western Hemisphere began in Peru in 1991 and spread to some 16 other countries , from Argentina to Canada , according to the Pan American Health Organization . From 1991 to 1997 , Peru alone saw more than 650,000 cases . A similar pattern in Haiti could produce some 270,000 cases , which means public health officials likely face long-term challenges in Haiti . The United Nations denied an assertion promoted by some Haitians that Nepalese peacekeepers were responsible for starting the cholera outbreak . U.N. statements said the protests may be politically motivated to create insecurity ahead of November 28 elections . Symptoms of cholera , an acute , bacterial illness caused by drinking tainted water , can be mild or even nonexistent . But sometimes they can be severe : leg cramps , profuse watery diarrhea and vomiting , which can cause rapid loss of body fluids and lead to dehydration , shock and death . Journalists Dmitri Foucard and Diulka Perez and CNN 's Ivan Watson , Moni Basu and Tom Watkins contributed to this report .
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At least 6 people suffered gunshot wounds . The Dominican health ministry confirmed its first case of cholera . The sickened man is a Haitian worker who just returned from home . In Florida , a woman who recently returned from Haiti was sickened .
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Rome -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Tens of thousands of university students took to the streets of Rome on Wednesday , Italian media estimated , amid heavy security to protest educational reforms planned by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi 's government . Students say the reforms will harm their futures and Italy 's educational system . The demonstrations came in the wake of violent protests on December 14 , after Berlusconi survived a parliamentary vote that could have ended his tenure as prime minister . He pulled through by three votes . Ensuing violence on that day caused an estimated 20 million euros -LRB- $ 26 million -RRB- damage to Rome 's historic center when cars , garbage cans and benches were set aflame and cash machines and store windows were smashed . More than 100 people were injured , although none seriously . Protesters on Wednesday opted to avoid the heavily patrolled city center by aiming for the outskirts of town , where they blocked a major thoroughfare . `` We are peaceful . We think the only violence is the reform the government is imposing on our country in these days , '' Simone Oggionni , a demonstrator outside Rome 's La Sapienza University , told CNN . The student marches remained peaceful into the mid-afternoon in the Italian capital . However , there were reports of pockets of violence in other Italian cities , including Milan and Palermo . Backers of the reform say it will save Italy 's education system by increasing transparency and reinforcing a meritocracy . Students claim the reform package amounts to cuts and the privatization of the education sector . Known as the `` legge Gelmini '' after Education Minister Mariastella Gelmini , the reform was scheduled for a vote in the Senate Wednesday , but voting is now likely to be put off until Thursday . Students are reaching out to Italy 's President Giorgio Napolitano and planned to meet with him later on Wednesday . Napolitano has the power to block the reform 's passage by withholding his signature . A group of university neuroscience researchers were also at the march . One protester who identified herself only as Federica told CNN , `` We are researchers in cognitive neuroscience and are not going to get our projects funded ... plus a lot of hospitals where we carry on our research are going to close because of budget cuts . '' Some estimates say the reform will result in 130,000 job losses in the education sector .
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NEW : Scientists say their funding will be cut by the reforms . The government 's plans will harm students ' futures , they say . Demonstrations a week ago turned violent . Heavy security blanketed Rome for the demonstration .
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Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy has joined Hamburg on a free transfer from Real Madrid , the German Bundesliga club have confirmed . The 33-year-old Holland international had been linked with a number of clubs during the transfer window , including English Premier League sides West Ham and Tottenham Hotspur , but has signed a a one-and-a-half-year contract at the HSH Nordbank Arena . Hamburg coach Bruno Labbadia revealed he was pleased to capture the former Manchester United striker and is confident he will find the net regularly for the club . Labbadia said : `` Ruud has proven his qualities impressively at some of Europe 's top clubs . I am convinced that he will also score some important goals for HSV . `` It just emphasises the reputation of our club that a player like Ruud van Nistelrooy decides to join Hamburg . '' Van Nistelrooy , who had been frozen out at Real Madrid and was keen to see first-team football in order to boost his hopes of making Holland 's World Cup squad , was equally thrilled to have made the switch . `` I am really happy that it has worked out and I am looking forward to Monday when I come to Hamburg , '' he added . `` I had great talks with both Bernd Hoffmann -LRB- Hamburg president -RRB- and Bruno Labbadia -LRB- coach -RRB- and had a very positive impression from the very beginning . `` HSV is a great club with a strong team and big ambitions . I also have big ambitions . ''
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Ruud van Nistelrooy has joined Hamburg on a free transfer from Real Madrid , the German Bundesliga club have confirmed . Hamburg coach Bruno Labbadia revealed he was pleased to capture the striker and is confident he will find the net regularly for the club . English Premier League sides Tottenham and West Ham had also been interested in signing the ex-Manchester United forward .
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LONDON , England -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- This week 's Champions League semi-finals are poised to offer a feast of the world 's best strikers . Didier Drogba : Is he good enough to be called the best striker in the world ? The game 's best finishers will face off against each other in the ties involving Manchester United , Arsenal , Chelsea and Barcelona . But of all the strikers who is best ? The storming return to form for Chelsea 's Didier Drogba has certainly pushed his case as the best in the game . The Ivory Coast forward , who had a forgettable first half of the 2008/2009 season , has relished the arrival of Guus Hiddink as temporary manager . He has since proved too good for some of the best sides in Europe . See our list of the top strikers in the world '' Drogba 's Chelsea face Barcelona in their Champions League semi-final -- a match that pits him against Barcelona 's potent attacking triumvirate of Samuel Eto'o , Thierry Henry and Lionel Messi . Who do you think is the best striker in the world ? Tell what you think of our picks and who should be number one . Eto'o makes a compelling case for himself as the best in the business this season . Having scored 27 league goals to be La Liga 's top scorer , the Cameroon striker is in great form and pushing Barca towards the league title . And what about the glittering array of talent at the disposal of Manchester United and Arsenal ? Wayne Rooney will once again be crucial to United if they are to retain their European crown . The England striker has been a huge threat this season for both club and country , whether deployed as a striker or pushed out wide . Rooney is ably supported by none other than world player of the year Ronaldo , the club 's top scorer , even though he 's not really a striker . Arsenal may be out of the running for England 's domestic title , but Emmanuel Adebayor and the injured Robin van Persie have fired the Gunners into the last four in Europe 's premier club competition . Indeed Adebayor 's stunning equalizer against Villarreal in Spain is a contender for goal of the season . Outside of this week 's matches in Europe there are still some players who are worthy of consideration . Liverpool 's Fernando Torres is undoubtedly one of the best in the game , while it 's also tough to look past the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic -- who has helped Jose Mourinho 's Inter Milan top Italy 's Serie A for much of the season .
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CNN 's Football Fanzone picks 11 of the world 's best strikers . Didier Drogba makes the list after an amazing return to form . Who do you think is the best forward in the world ?
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Some of the world 's largest airlines are conducting safety checks after debris fell from the engine of a Qantas Airbus A380 as it flew over Indonesia . Australia 's national airline has now grounded its Airbus A380 fleet indefinitely . How serious is the incident -- and what does it mean for the aviation industry ? What do we know about the Qantas engine incident ? One of the four engines on the Qantas A380 , which was carrying 440 passengers and 26 crew Thursday , shut down shortly after it left Singapore 's Changi Airport . The most obvious sign of damage to the plane is that part of one engine cowling , or covering , had been blown away . Debris was later found on the Indonesian island of Batan . Why is this being taken so seriously ? This type of incident is known as an `` uncontained engine failure , '' explains Richard Quest , CNN 's aviation correspondent . `` Probably something happened at the front of the engine , it ingested into the engine , out the other side and that 's where the explosion or non-containment happened . '' Quest highlighted damage to the wing above the engine , including puncture marks . `` Whatever event took place in engine number two , the debris from that event exploded outwards , removing part of the cowling and , it seems , going upwards through the wing . '' Quest said the debris hit the wing by the forward slats , several meters away from critical areas such as the fuel tanks and fuel lines . `` Any form of debris that leaves an engine and has upward momentum sufficiently that it can go through the wing in that sort of mode has to be taken very seriously indeed , '' Quest said . `` That is why , in this case , Qantas has decided to ground the fleet . '' Quest highlighted other signs of damage on the engine casing , including the presence of soot marks where the fan and combustion chambers meet the exhaust . `` That suggests there was clearly some sort of an event , some sort of fire , '' he explained . Were the passengers and air crew in any danger ? While the incident was serious , the plane landed with no reported injuries . Quest said the pilot would have faced a challenging landing : one of his reverse thrusters would not work and he would be carrying too much fuel . But air crews practice for such eventualities . `` This was not even a difficult landing for him . '' How common is this type of incident ? An uncontained engine failure is extremely uncommon , said Quest -- but it has happened on several occasions before . In 1985 a British Airtours Boeing 737-236 at Manchester International Airport in northern England , caught fire as it readied for take-off . Debris from the engine punctured an underwing fuel tank access panel , according to a later Air Accident Investigation Branch report into the incident . The resulting blaze engulfed the fuselage in a matter of minutes , killing 55 passengers and crew . What do we know about the engine itself ? The engine used on the Qantas Airbus A380 is the Rolls Royce Trent 900 . All A380s -- save those flown by Emirates -- are fitted with it , accounting for more than half the 37 A380s in operation before Thursday 's incident . In a statement to CNN , a Rolls-Royce spokesperson said : `` Safety is always our highest priority . We are currently analyzing the available information and working with our customers to support their operations . '' Shares in Rolls Royce dropped more than five percent Thursday in trading on the London Stock Exchange . What 's the safety record of the Airbus A380 ? The plane involved in this incident would be about two years old , with the engine of a similar age . The Airbus A380 has a 100 percent safety record , Quest explained . `` There have been niggles with the fuel systems and engines but nothing like this , they have more been operational issues . It is an extremely complicated airplane . The plane is designed for an uncontained engine failure . '' `` The airlines love it , '' adds Quest . `` Everyone who flies on the A380 says it 's quiet , it 's roomy , it 's comfortable . '' The incident happened in the same region as Indonesian volcano Mount Merapi , which is now active . Could this have been a factor ? Investigators will look at all possibilities . Earlier this year , no-fly zones were imposed across Europe due to ash clouds from Iceland 's Eyjafjallajökull . It was feared that dust and ash from the volcano might damage airplane engines . However , while Mount Merapi is also in Indonesia , it is located several hundred miles from where the incident took place . IVolcanic activity has not yet been flagged as a serious possible cause of the engine failure . What is Airbus saying about the incident ? In a statement to CNN company spokesperson Justin Dubon confirmed that `` a Qantas A380 returned safely back to Singapore . The Singaporean authorities have launched an official investigation and these will be led by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau -LRB- ATSB -RRB- . `` Airbus is providing full technical assistance and is dispatching a technical team to Singapore where Airbus already has resident technical personnel . '' Has there been any comment from other operators of the A380 ? Singapore Airlines said in a statement on its website that it would delay all its A380 flights for the time being . `` Our engine manufacturer Rolls Royce and aircraft manufacturer Airbus have advised us to conduct precautionary technical checks on our A380 aircraft , following today 's incident involving another operator 's A380 . '' Lufthansa , which operates three A380s , including to Tokyo , said : `` Our operations are as normal . We are on standby to go further but no decisions have been made . '' CNN 's Richard Quest contributed to this report .
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Incident , known as an `` uncontained engine failure '' is rare but not unknown , says CNN 's Richard Quest . Engine type is fitted to more than half the 37 A380s currently in operation . Quest : There have been niggles with the fuels systems and engines but nothing like this .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Shark experts began arriving in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday to investigate what led to four attacks over the last week that killed a German woman and injured three snorkelers , officials said . The behavioral experts will form an advisory team to assess and advise on the best course of action following the attacks , according to Jochen Van Lysebettens , general operations manager of the Red Sea Diving College in Sharm el-Sheikh . The tab for the expert advice is being picked up by the Ministry of Tourism . Van Lysebettens said the reason behind the shark attacks needs to be determined in order to stop it . Sharm el-Sheikh beach will remain closed until the shark responsible for Sunday 's fatal attack is found , according to Egypt 's Interior Ministry . A 70-year-old woman , a regular guest at the resort , was snorkeling near a reef on Sunday when she was attacked , he said . She called for help , and a lifeguard brought her to shore , but she had lost too much blood and resuscitation efforts failed , Van Lysebettens said . The woman 's arm and leg had been severed , he said . Amateur video of the attack showed splashing in shallow water as boaters looked on . `` It came at her , '' said the tourist and videographer , who asked not to be identified . The shark `` kept biting her while she was screaming for help and trying to get away , '' he said . The videographer 's voice can be heard in the video , growing increasingly loud as the attack continued without apparent intervention from onlookers aboard nearby boats . `` Look at the blood , '' he said . `` Oh my god . '' After the incident , the Chamber of Diving and Watersports called on its members in the region `` to stop any snorkeling activities happening from any boats or shore . '' The chamber is under the umbrella of the Egyptian Tourist Federation . On Friday , two sharks were caught and killed near the South Sinai National Park on the Sharm el-Sheikh coast , according to the Chamber of Diving and Watersports . The three injured snorkelers -- two Russian women and a man from the Ukraine -- were attacked in a 24-hour period November 30 and December 1 , the chamber said . Van Lysebettens said he is not a marine biologist , but many have speculated an oceanic white-tipped shark was responsible for the German woman 's death , as well as the other attacks . But the videographer of Sunday 's attack said the shark he filmed did not have white markings on its fins . Some are upset because the two sharks killed Friday are thought to be innocent . They were a mako shark and another oceanic white-tipped shark -- which did not match pictures taken by someone accompanying one of the injured snorkelers , Van Lysebettens said . `` This incident has clearly shocked our community , and the CDWS is continuing its investigation into why this may have happened , '' Hesham Gabr , head of the Chamber of Diving and Watersports , said in the statement . `` It is clear from our initial discussions with shark behavioral experts that this highly unusual spate of attacks by an oceanic -LRB- white tipped -RRB- shark was triggered by an activity , most probably illegal fishing or feeding in the area . '' Several divers in the area saw carcasses of dead sheep in the water last week , Van Lysebettens said . It 's not known how they got there , he said , but they could have washed out to sea or fallen off a boat . The shark may have been attracted by the carcass , he said , and could now be attacking slow-moving things on the water 's surface . Van Lysebettens also said chumming could be to blame for the attacks . Chum is a mixture of blood and dead fish parts , which is used to lure sharks . CNN 's Brian Walker and Karen Smith contributed to this report .
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Officials have closed area beaches until the shark is found . A German woman dies Sunday in a shark attack . 3 snorkelers injured previously ; 2 sharks have been caught and killed .
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Copiapo , Chile -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Chile 's Atacama Desert is no place to live . At night it 's a freezing moonscape and when the sun comes up it becomes as hot as a burning skillet . There is little life and almost no water . The Atacama has been described as the driest desert in the world . Only when the `` camanchacas , '' or thick blankets of fog , blow in from the coast is there any precipitation . The brief watering can cause desert wildflowers to spring up and cover the rocky slopes in purple . But at the foot of a gold and copper mine a small and unlikely community -- part vigil , part refugee camp -- has also blossomed . It is called '' Campo Esperanza '' or Camp Hope and it is where many of the families of 33 miners have vowed to stay until their loved ones are pulled from the earth . It 's almost certain to be a long wait . Two drills have already begun hammering away at the collapsed mine to free the men and a third is expected to begin work soon . Even so , Chilean mining officials say the men may not be freed until December . Maria Segovia is dug in for the long haul . She shares a tent with her sister in a row of encampments that line the road leading to the mine . On weekends more family members come . The rock wall behind her temporary home is a shrine to her younger brother Dario Segovia adorned with his picture , mining helmet and uniform . How faith is playing an important role for the families . Sevogia 's spartan quarters are luxurious compared to the living conditions the families first endured after the collapse . `` It was empty , '' Segovia said . `` After the accident we began to build a camp . But at first it was terrible : We slept outside and in the day it was boiling , at night freezing and the worst was we did n't know if our boys were alive . '' Seventeen days after the collapse , the families learned the miners had miraculously survived , but that freeing them would be an epic and lengthy undertaking . Across the street from Segovia 's tent , Miguel Valenzuela pours water on the ground to slow the flow of dust pouring into his tent . A 25-year veteran of the mines , Valenzuela worked at the San Jose Mine , but was n't inside when it caved in . Three close friends of his were entombed in the mine . `` It 's a job but with a risk . Every day we walked in with the risk that something could happen , '' he said . Valenzuela lights candles to pictures of saints to assist the rescue , he sweeps and cooks and cleans for miners families to stay occupied . He does n't want to think about what his friends are going through . `` I know better than anybody how they are doing . I have been where they have been , I know what it 's like in a mine . '' The drilling at the mine is the constant backdrop and barometer for Camp Hope . Its residents gaze out at the drilling to see if work is being done and if they can divine how much longer they -- and the miners -- will be here . They make small talk , watch TV in a cafeteria tent set up by the local government , or walk to the hill overlooking the camp to tend flags bearing the names of their loved ones . Every day Jose Sanchez watches a cell phone video of his son-in-law Victor Segovia , a self-taught musician , in which Victor plays a ranchera and sings to the camera with an easy smile . `` I watch it all the time to feel close to him , '' Jose said . `` Soon we 'll be with him , spending afternoons together , having him play guitar and harmonica . It 's the gift God will give us . '' In the meantime , the families continue to lean on each other and fill the time . If the miners are a symbol of resolve for the world , their families want to provide their own example . After the mine collapse , many of the families did not know each other , said Segovia as she greeted new friends passing her tent . `` Now I see them and we are one family . We worry , talk and fight for each other . '' `` What happened here was 33 families became one . ''
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`` Camp Hope '' is a makeshift tent community set up by the families of the 33 trapped miners . Family members are living there despite the harsh conditions of Chile 's Atacama Desert . The tent village is part refugee camp , part vigil to the miners . The men may not be freed until December .
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Johannesburg , South Africa -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela led mourning for his great-granddaughter at a chapel in Johannesburg , South Africa , on Thursday , his office announced . Zenani Mandela , 13 , was buried in a private ceremony earlier in the day , Mandela 's office said , after she was killed in a car crash June 11 . `` I should have let you sleep longer when you told me you were tired . I should have let you wear all the make-up in the world , '' Zenani 's mother Zoleka Mandela said in a message read by a family friend at the service , according to the Mandela Foundation . `` I should have given you more money , more hugs , more kisses , and I should have whispered more in your ear ' I love you , ' '' Refiloe Seakemela said , overcome with emotion as she read the mother 's statement . Zenani was returning from the World Cup soccer tournament 's kickoff concert when she was killed . Mandela , who did much to bring the tournament to his country , skipped the World Cup kickoff , which came only hours after Zenani died . Zenani turned 13 two days before she died . Her uncle , Prince Zinhle Dlamini , told mourners that she had met Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo on her birthday . `` Ronaldo is here because it 's my birthday and he does n't even know who I am , '' Dlamini remembered her saying . `` My gift from him was a kiss and two signed T-shirts of Real Madrid . '' `` She was a precious little girl who shined bright for everyone to see , '' he said , choking up , the foundation said . Zenani was in a car returning from the show at Orlando Stadium in Soweto when the wreck occurred . No other vehicle was involved in the wreck , the foundation said . The driver was arrested for culpable homicide and drunk driving , police told CNN . Zenani was one of Mandela 's nine great-grandchildren . Her great-grandmother Winnie Madikizela-Mandela -- Mandela 's ex-wife -- also attended the memorial , as did Mandela 's wife Graca Machel , along with other relatives , schoolfriends and teachers . Mandela , who is 91 , has limited his public appearances recently , although he did meet the South Africa soccer squad before the World Cup began .
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Zenani Mandela , 13 , was killed in a car wreck last week . `` I should have whispered more in your ear ' I love you , ' '' mother says at memorial . Zenani thrilled by meeting soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo two days before she died . Former South African president , 91 , had 9 great-grandchildren .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Colombia 's president says devastating flooding forced him to cancel his scheduled trip to the United Nations climate change conference in Mexico this week -- even though global warming itself could be causing the disaster his country faces . `` I canceled the trip I was taking to Cancun ... to attend the international conference on climate change , which is what is affecting us , but I canceled this meeting , '' President Juan Manuel Santos said in a statement Sunday . At least 194 people were killed and 248 injured after torrential rains in Colombia that have affected nearly 1.6 million people , according to the country 's interior ministry . The downpours have caused landslides and overflowing rivers , destroying at least 2,040 houses and damaging nearly 270,000 more nationwide , the ministry said . Rescue crews continued to work Monday after a landslide in the suburbs of Medellin , Colombia , buried between 30 and 50 homes , Red Cross National Deputy Director Jorge Ivan Nova told CNN . Up to 150 people were affected , he said . As of Monday night , they had found 23 bodies , Nova said , and more than 120 others could still be trapped underground . Seven others were injured . Better weather on Monday helped rescuers , but there was so much water on the ground that further mudslides were a risk , he said . Bersabe Alzate cradled her head in her hands and held back tears as she described the search for her family members . `` Two little girls , my sister-in-law and my niece -- they are trapped and they have n't been found , '' Alzate told Caracol . `` They have n't been able to get them out . '' The landslide occurred Sunday afternoon , while volunteers elsewhere in the province of Antioquia held a telethon to raise money for winter weather victims . `` From this tragedy that has no precedent in the history of our country , we are going to forge ahead , '' Santos said Sunday after flying over some of the most severely affected areas , according to a statement on the government 's website . Colombia is considering declaring a state of emergency to devote more resources to response and rescue efforts , Santos said , noting the number of victims throughout the country could climb to 2 million . CNN 's Catherine E. Shoichet and Esprit Smith contributed to this report .
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NEW : The Red Cross says 23 people are dead after a landslide , and more than 120 are missing . At least 194 people have died in Colombia 's floods , authorities report . Climate change `` is what is affecting us , '' Colombia 's president says . The interior ministry says as many as 200,000 homes have been damaged .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Four ferries carrying about 1,000 passengers have been freed from heavy ice off the coast of Sweden and were back in port Friday , said the Maritime Search and Rescue Center . Arctic winds hampered icebreakers ' efforts to free the ferries and at least 30 other ships from the icy grip of the Baltic Sea on Thursday , according to Birger Knutsson , a spokesman for the maritime center , in Gothenburg , Sweden . The area with the worst ice was bounded by mainland Sweden , the Stockholm archipelago and the Finnish island of Aland , according to the Swedish Maritime Administration . `` It has been a lot colder than normal in the southern parts of the Baltic Sea . But in the north , all is normal , with normal levels of ice , '' said Tommy Gardebring with the maritime group . `` However , in the worst-affected areas , the icebreakers that normally operate have n't been able to cope with the ice . `` There was never any danger for the safety of the vessels . But we have increased our preparedness , just in case , since the ice puts a lot of pressure on the sides of the ships , '' Gardebring said . CNN 's Stephanie Halasz contributed to this report .
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Arctic winds and exceptionally cold weather hampered efforts to free the ferries . Ferries were carrying about 1,000 passengers . Swedish maritime spokesman expects most of the ships will be freed by Friday .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Yemen could turn out like Somalia if the current rate of international investment does n't increase , the country 's deputy finance minister told CNN Monday . `` I 'm not suggesting a failed state , '' Jalal Yaqoub said . `` What I 'm suggesting -LRB- is -RRB- a state where citizens do n't get the right services delivered to them . '' Yemen sparked an international security alert this weekend when two packages mailed from the poor Arab nation were found to have explosives inside . The bombs could have brought down the planes carrying them , officials said . Yemen has become a major new battleground for al Qaeda , but Yaqoub denied it could become a `` failed state '' with no effective central government , like Somalia . `` I do n't think Yemen is a collapsing state . I do n't think Yemen is a weak state , '' he told CNN 's Becky Anderson in an interview for `` Connect the World . '' But it needs $ 45 - to $ 50 billion in investment over the next decade to give people jobs , water , and electricity because `` extremism flourishes in an area where people have no jobs and too much time on their hands . `` We have ideas . We have plans . We have visions . And we need the support of the international community to make sure that jobs are being created and services delivered to these people and that will certainly help stabilize the country and reduce extremism . '' Yaqoub said it `` would not surprise '' him if the United States increased its covert activities in his country in the wake of the foiled bomb plot , but that `` as a Yemeni citizen '' he did not like the idea of unmanned U.S. drones . The United States is thought to use drones to fire missiles at suspected terrorists in Pakistan , among other locations . It does not officially confirm such strikes . A U.S. official said Monday the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency continues to expand its intelligence operations in Yemen with more operatives and analysts working closely with the Yemen government and other U.S. partners inside the country . The increased focus on Yemen predates the Christmas Day attempt to blow up an airliner over Detroit . There has been no decision on expanding the CIA role to include running a drone campaign in Yemen . The official said the Agency has the capability to do so , but it ultimately is a White House decision to move forward on that front . Regarding the threat of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula compared to al Qaeda Pakistan , the official said `` this is not a zero sum game . '' Al Qaeda Pakistan remains very dangerous even though it is under intense pressure by the United States because of drone missile attacks . The official pointed to the European plot as having its roots in Pakistan . AQAP is an affiliate that has become increasingly more active . The two groups communicate and share ideas . Al Qaeda in Pakistan encourages AQAP to carry out attacks . However , the official said AQAP makes its own tactical decisions , runs its own day to day operations . The official said Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is clearly playing a more prominent operational role in AQAP , he is part of the senior leadership . It would not be surprising if in the end , al-Awlaki had a role in the cargo bombing plot , but so far there is no direct evidence of that , the official said . Another U.S. official also said it `` would n't be a surprise if he ends up implicated in this . '' Both officials said it is still unclear the intent of the cargo plot , this is whether the bombs were to explode in the planes or at the synagogues or had another purpose . The second official said the fact these were `` real devices , a real attempt '' pretty much discounts any theory that this was merely a trial run by the terrorists -- `` it does n't hold much water anymore . '' This official said experts are examining the devices to determine how they would have worked and whether they had the capability to work as intended . CNN 's Pam Benson contributed to this report .
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Yemen 's deputy finance minister calls for $ 45 - to $ 50 billion international investment . He denies his country could become a failed state . Good jobs and infrastructure help fight extremism , he says .
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Baghdad , Iraq -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- All Christians in the Middle East are now `` legitimate targets , '' al Qaeda in Iraq announced Wednesday , as the group 's deadline for Egypt 's Coptic church to release alleged Muslim female prisoners expired . An audio message released Monday gave the church 48 hours to disclose the status of Muslim women it said are imprisoned in Coptic churches in Egypt . The message purportedly came from the Islamic State of Iraq , which claimed responsibility for an attack on a Baghdad church Sunday that killed 58 people and wounded 75 . The umbrella group includes a number of Sunni extremist organizations and has ties to al Qaeda in Iraq . The group said the women 's alleged plight was the reason it stormed the church . Wednesday , the group released a new message saying , `` The Ministry of War of Islamic State of Iraq declares that all the centers , organizations and bodies of Christian leaders and followers have become legitimate targets by the Mujahedeens , wherever our hands will reach them . '' Shortly after the message was released , Egyptian police sources confirmed that security has been reinforced at churches around the country . Additional protection was also being provided to the head of the Coptic Church , Pope Shenouda III , who is scheduled to give a sermon in Cairo in the evening , according to a police spokesman who could not be named in line with policy . Copts are adherents of an Egyptian sect of Christianity . About nine percent of Egyptians are Coptic , according to the Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook ; 90 percent of Egyptians are Muslim . `` This is a matter of extreme seriousness and we should not underestimate the threat , '' said Yusif Sidhom , editor-in-chief of Watani , a weekly Coptic newspaper published in Cairo . `` We have to keep our eyes wide open and take all measures to ensure that our buildings and churches are not infiltrated . '' Sidhom said he was encouraged by the security measures taken by the Egyptian government , as well as by the position taken by political forces in Egypt , including the Muslim Brotherhood , which has condemned the attack on the church in Baghdad and condemned threats against Egyptian Copts . Worshippers at the Sayidat al-Nejat church in Baghdad were about to begin Sunday night services when gunmen entered the church , according to Martin Chulov , a journalist for Britain 's Guardian newspaper , who was at the scene . As many as 120 people were taken hostage , said Lt. Col. Eric Bloom , a U.S. military spokesman . The gunmen held them for hours before security forces stormed in to end the standoff , arresting eight suspects . Most of the hostages were killed or wounded when the attackers set off explosives inside the church , Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul Qader Obeidi said . At least two of the attackers were wearing explosive vests , which they detonated just minutes before security forces raided the church , police officials said . The gunmen were demanding that the Iraqi government release a number of detainees and prisoners in Iraqi prisons , saying the Christian hostages would be freed in return , according to the police officials . Iraq 's defense minister later said on state television that the kidnappers had demanded the release of a number of prisoners in both Iraq and Egypt . `` The sword of slaughter will not be lifted off the necks of their followers until they denounce what the dog of the Egyptian church has committed , and until they show the Mujahedeens their serious endeavor to pressure the combatant -LRB- Coptic -RRB- church for the release of our Muslim sisters , who are captive in the prisons of their monateries , '' the militant group said Wednesday . The group 's claim that the Coptic Church in Egypt is holding female prisoners is based on widespread rumors of Coptic women in Egypt converting to Islam and being detained by the church in an attempt to compel or persuade them to return to their original faith . Both the Egyptian Interior Ministry and the representatives of the Coptic Church in Cairo declined to comment on the matter . As for Iraqi Christians , the chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom , said Wednesday they face `` a grave terrorist threat . '' Leonard Leo said Christians are among the country 's `` smallest religious minorities , '' which face a `` pattern of official discrimination , marginalization and neglect . '' USCIRF , an independent , bipartisan U.S. federal government commission , reviews violations of religious freedom internationally and makes policy recommendations to the administration and Congress . `` It also is time for the Obama administration to acknowledge the sectarian aspects of the conflict in Iraq , which are evident in this attack , and ensure that U.S.-Iraq policy prioritizes the plight of the country 's vulnerable religious minority communities , '' Leo said . `` Congress already has taken this step , as reflected in House and Senate resolutions that call on the U.S. government to , among other measures , work with the Iraqi government to enhance security at places of worship and ensure that members of ethnic and religious minority communities do not suffer discrimination and can effectively convey their concerns to government . The administration should act accordingly as quickly as possible . '' CNN 's Saad Abedine in Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates , and Ben Wedeman in Cairo , Egypt , contributed to this report .
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Al Qaeda in Iraq had issued a deadline for the release of alleged female prisoners . The group claimed responsibility for Sunday 's attack on a Baghdad church . Egypt reinforces security at churches around the country .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Juanita Castro , the younger sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro , worked for the CIA during some crucial years of the Cold War , she says in her new memoir . Juanita Castro , originally a supporter of the Cuban revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959 , said she became disillusioned by growing injustice . `` They wanted to talk to me because they had interesting things to tell me , and interesting things to ask of me , such as if I was willing to take that risk , if I was ready to listen to them . I was semi-shocked , but I said yes anyway , '' she told CNN affiliate Univision-Noticias 23 in Miami , Florida . Univision 's interviewer , journalist Maria Antonieta Collins , co-wrote the book . `` My Brothers Fidel and Raul , the Secret History '' was released Monday . In the book , Juanita Castro said she was introduced to the world of the CIA through a close friend on the island nation , Virginia Leitao da Cunha , wife of the Brazilian ambassador to Cuba in the early 1960s . In June 1961 , under the guise of visiting her sister Enma in Mexico City , Castro met a CIA agent who called himself `` Enrique , '' the memoir says . In those first meetings in Mexico , which took place shortly after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion , Enrique asked the young woman about general information regarding Cuba since the revolution , and then asked whether she would work for the agency , according to the book . The job that Enrique described was to help protect CIA agents working in Cuba , Castro said . `` The CIA has people in Cuba . Some could be discovered or already have . The mission is to protect them and move them from one place to another , providing the most security possible , '' the agent told her , according to the book . The CIA declined to comment on the book 's claims . Her first mission was to deliver documents , money and messages hidden in canned goods from Mexico to Cuba , according to the book . Castro wrote that she agreed to help on the condition that she would not do anything violent against her brothers . She also refused payment when it was offered , she said . The CIA communicated through a short-wave radio . At an appointed hour daily , if the waltz `` Fascination '' aired on the radio , Castro would know that a message would follow . An overture from `` Madame Butterfly '' meant that no message was coming , according to the book . A special code was made up of numbers , which Castro would decode with a manual , she wrote . The period of her cooperation , from 1961 to 1969 , included the Cuban Missile Crisis , which changed the way the Cold War was being waged . To resolve the crisis , the Soviet Union agreed to dismantle the missiles it had placed in Cuba in exchange for assurances that the United States would not invade Cuba . In 1964 , Castro decided to leave Cuba for good , becoming an exile in Miami . She worked with anti-Castro exile groups there , and continued to cooperate with the CIA , according to the book . The relationship ended when U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union changed during Richard Nixon 's presidency . As tensions eased with the Soviet Union , the United States would no longer back anti-Castro exiles , two CIA agents told her . When they asked her to use her influence to downplay rhetoric of a communist threat , she quit . The Cuban government had no immediate response to the publication of the book , Jorge Bolanos , chief of the Cuban Interest Section in Washington , told CNN en Español on Monday . `` I have n't received any reaction from the Cuban government , '' he said . `` I am not in the position to comment about a book which I have not read yet . '' CNN 's Mariano Castillo and Carol Cratty contributed to this report .
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Memoir by Fidel Castro 's sister , Juanita , says she worked for CIA . Communicated via coded messages on short-wave radio . Cooperated with CIA between 1961 and 1969 ; left Cuba in 1964 for Miami . Agreed to help on condition she did not do anything violent against her brothers .
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New Orleans , Louisiana -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Tropical Storm Alex -- the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season this year -- formed in the Caribbean on Saturday as BP continued to battle a massive oil spill in the Gulf . Alex had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph -LRB- 65 kph -RRB- and was about 250 miles away from Chetumal , Mexico . It was moving toward Belize and over the Yucatan Peninsula . It was not clear whether the storm could hit the part of the Gulf affected by the massive oil spill that has been gushing since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20 , killing 11 workers . A tropical storm in the oil-tainted Gulf of Mexico would disrupt BP efforts to drill relief wells and capture the oil at sea . It would also complicate efforts to clean up miles of coastline . High winds and seas could distribute the oil -- still gushing from a blown deepwater well -- over a wider area while storm surges could wash more oil ashore , according to a fact sheet prepared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . A tropical storm warning is in effect for the coast of Belize , the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico , and various islands of Honduras . It means storm conditions are expected within the warning area within 36 hours . Meteorologist Karen Maginnis says the `` preferred scenario '' actually would be for the storm to head to northern Florida . That 's because the oil spill has been gradually rotating counterclockwise . If the storm heads to the east of it , it would send the oil farther out to sea . If the storm heads more directly towards the central Gulf and Louisiana , it might push the oil toward Florida . Of course , forecasting where oil spills are headed in not easy . `` We 're really in unchartered territory , '' Maginnis said . `` We 've never been in this situation before . We 've never seen an oil spill that encompassed the Gulf like this , end up so close to shore . '' She noted that the latest models do point to the storm heading to the central Gulf . Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen , who 's heading the federal cleanup operation , says he 'll have to redeploy people and equipment to safer areas 120 hours -LRB- five days -RRB- in advance of gale-force winds . And he agreed there is `` no playbook '' when it comes to responding to a massive oil spill as a storm brews . `` But I will tell you there 's been an extraordinary amount of planning being done , '' he told CNN . `` We are going to try to merge two response structures . One has proven effective in the past , and that 's a central coordination of search and rescue and how operations are conducted , and that 's done out of Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida for hurricanes . And we are in the process of integrating our planning processes so the oil spill response is integrated fully within the search and rescue recovery operations . '' But a powerful storm would not just disrupt efforts to drill relief wells and capture the oil at sea , of course . It would complicate efforts to clean up miles of coastline . `` It 's going to mean we 're going to have to find a way to maneuver all our resources , change things , '' said Grover Robinson , chairman of the Escambia County Commission in Pensacola , Florida . `` We wo n't be able to fight the oil for a couple of days . And we have no idea about winds and current and what it will do to the oil in the gulf . So obviously , it 's a very big concern for us . '' Allen said he and some top Obama administration officials , including Vice President Joe Biden , will be headed back to the Gulf region next week to assess the oil relief efforts . But in a new blow to fishermen , Mississippi officials announced that waters east of the Gulfport shipping channel would be closed to shrimping , because of oil sighted in the area . Meanwhile , there been some promising news for potentially tens of thousands of people seeking claims against BP . Kenneth Feinberg , who is administering the $ 20 billion fund set up by BP under White House prodding , says that people who work in support of oil rigs will be able to file claims -- and not just fishermen and businesses along the coast . Employees of businesses that brings tools to oil rigs , for example , also would be able to file a claim . The company previously agreed to set aside the $ 20 billion in an escrow account for spill-related costs , a sum that does not cover fees and penalties that could be imposed by the federal government . BP had resisted approving claims by people who said they were affected by the moratorium on oil drilling , saying it was imposed by the Obama administration . But Feinberg said BP and the administration now have agreed those claims will be covered . `` I now have discovered -- I did n't realize this until yesterday , but the moratorium claims will fall under my jurisdiction , '' he told CNN . To date , almost 74,000 claims have been filed and more than 39,000 payments have been made , totaling almost $ 126 million , according to the company . In another development , there has been some promising news in the effort to permanently stop the leak . BP said Friday its `` ranging '' process , by which it sends an electrical current that puts out an electromagnetic field down the well bore , detected Wednesday where the leaking well is in relation to the first relief well , at a depth of 16,275 feet . BP said subsequent ranging runs will be needed to more precisely locate the leaking well and figure out how to best intersect the two . `` What they will do is continue to drill down in short intervals , withdraw the pipe , put that sensing device down and slowly close on the well bore to the point where they 're ready to do the intercept drilling . This last part takes some time because they only do several hundred feet at a time . '' said Allen . `` They 'll also have a vessel standing by full of mud on the top , so in the event there were to get really close and potentially nick the well bore , they could actually put the mud down to control any hydrocarbons that might come out . '' Drilling and ranging operations will continue over the next few weeks toward the target intercept depth of approximately 18,000 feet . `` Kill '' operations are expected to begin when the relief well reaches the leaking well . BP said drilling also continues on a second relief well , which has reached 10,500 feet . Costs associated with the Gulf oil disaster have gone up more than $ 300 million in less than a week , BP said Friday . `` The cost of the response to date amounts to approximately $ 2.35 billion , including the cost of the spill response , containment , relief well drilling , grants to the Gulf states , claims paid and federal costs , '' a company statement said . BP put the tab at $ 2 billion on Monday . Meanwhile , Deepwater drilling could resume by the end of July . U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman in New Orleans , Louisiana , on Thursday denied a request to keep a six-month moratorium imposed by President Barack Obama on May 27 in place , pending a government appeal . The government has 30 days to show it is beginning to comply with Feldman 's order and start issuing permits . The appeals process can continue , but until the appeal , the government must act as if Feldman 's order will be upheld . Feldman turned down the government 's request for a stay of his order late Thursday , and the Justice Department appealed that ruling to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans . Government lawyers filed an appeal to the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Friday , asking the court to stay Feldman 's order pending the appeals . CNN 's Brandon Miller contributed to this report .
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NEW : Tropical Storm Alex forms in the Caribbean . NEW : Not clear whether storm could hit part of Gulf affected by oil spill . NEW : Justice Department goes to appeals court to keep moratorium on drilling .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Four months after an auto accident and reports of extramarital affairs put his golf career on hold , Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that he plans to return to the sport at the Masters Tournament in April . Woods dropped out of professional competition in December after a Thanksgiving weekend wreck outside his Florida home turned a harsh spotlight on the golfer 's personal life . In March , the 34-year-old golfer issued a public apology for cheating on his wife and said he was undergoing treatment for unspecified `` issues . '' But on Tuesday , he said he was coming back to play in the Masters , which he has won four times since 1997 . `` After a long and necessary time away from the game , I feel like I 'm ready to start my season at Augusta , '' Woods said in a statement released by his agent . `` The major championships have always been a special focus in my career and , as a professional , I think Augusta is where I need to be , even though it 's been a while since I last played . '' The tournament is scheduled for April 5-11 at Georgia 's Augusta National Golf Club . Can Tiger the Great 's return restore his legend ? Billy Payne , the club 's chairman , welcomed the return of the sport 's top draw . `` We support Tiger 's decision to return to competitive golf beginning at this year 's Masters Tournament , '' Payne said in a statement shortly after the announcement . `` Additionally , we support and encourage his stated commitment to continue the significant work required to rebuild his personal and professional life . '' And PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem added , `` We were pleased to learn that Tiger Woods will be playing the Masters in a few weeks . He has invested a lot of time taking steps , both in his personal and professional life , in order to prepare for his return . We all wish him and his family the best as he rejoins the tour . '' Woods has won four PGA championships and six of the association 's Grand Slam title . Tuesday 's announcement comes nearly a month after Woods publicly apologized for what he called `` irresponsible and selfish '' behavior , which he said included infidelity , and said he was working to `` become a better man . '' `` I have undergone almost two months of inpatient therapy , and I am continuing my treatment , '' he said in Tuesday 's statement . `` Although I 'm returning to competition , I still have a lot of work to do in my personal life . '' Woods ' public woes began with an early-morning crash November 27 outside his Orlando-area home , when he suffered minor injuries after striking a fire hydrant and a tree with his Cadillac SUV . Woods was not required to talk to police about the wreck and declined to talk with investigators on several occasions . Eventually , he was cited for careless driving . He paid a $ 164 fine and received four points on his driving record . The wreck occurred days after the tabloid National Enquirer named Woods as having an affair with a New York nightclub hostess . The woman has denied the allegation , but several others have come forward to claim that they had sexual relationships with Woods , who is married to former model Elin Nordegren . The couple has two children . In his carefully managed March statement , delivered to a small , hand-picked crowd , Woods said he was in inpatient therapy for 45 days from the end of December to early February for `` issues , '' which he did not explain . The controversy prompted several major sponsors to suspend or drop their relationships with Woods , who also apologized to his business partners for his behavior . And he denied speculation that Nordegren attacked him the night of the accident , saying she showed `` enormous grace and poise throughout this ordeal . ''
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Superstar athlete sidelined by sex scandal . `` I feel like I 'm ready to start my season at Augusta , '' he says . Woods won Georgia tournament four times since 1997 .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Serie A leaders Inter Milan have confirmed they have cancelled the contract of Brazilian striker Adriano with immediate effect . Adriano walked out on Inter Milan to return to Brazil , citing depression and saying he needed a break . Inter confirmed on their official Web site that they rescinded Adriano 's contract from April 1st , after the 27-year-old walked out on the club to return to his homeland , citing depression and claiming he needed a break from football . `` Inter would like to thank Adriano for his 74 goals and the eight years spent together , '' the club said in a short statement . Adriano joined Inter in 2001 , although he had three loan spells with Fiorentina -LRB- 2002 -RRB- , twice with Parma -LRB- 2002 and 2004 -RRB- and Sao Paulo -LRB- 2008 -RRB- . He played 177 times for the club , scoring 48 goals in 123 league appearances and 18 in 35 European matches -- winning the Serie A title in 2006 , 2007 and 2008 as well as two Italian Cup victories . Adriano was last seen in public on the Brazil bench during the April 1 World Cup qualifying win over Peru .
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Brazil international striker Adriano released from his contract with Inter Milan . 27-year-old walked out on club citing depression and saying he needed break . Adriano joined Inter in 2001 and scored 48 goals in 123 league appearances .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Steven Gerrard returned to Liverpool 's starting line-up but he was only able to help the English Premier League side claim a point as they were held to a goalless draw by Wolves on Tuesday . Liverpool struggled to break down a resilient Wolves defence and rarely tested home goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann as both sides opted for a solitary striker up front at Molineux with chances at a premium . Gerrard , who had returned earlier than expected from a hamstring problem , was clearly short of match fitness and the Reds captain was unable to have his usual influence on the game . Spain winger Albert Riera had the best opportunity for the visitors when he lashed a speculative lob from distance which appeared to be creeping under the bar before American goalkeeper Hahnemann produced a one-handed save to push the ball over . Despite the result Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez remained upbeat and was pleased with Gerrard 's return to match action . `` It was positive for us to have Steven back -- you could see he still needs to improve his match fitness but it was not a risk to play him tonight , '' Benitez told Sky Sports . `` Overall the final pass seemed to be difficult for us and Wolves defended well . You can see the team was working hard and there are a lot of good things for us to take out of the game . '' Liverpool are now unbeaten in five Premier League clashes but are three points behind fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur , who eased to a 2-0 victory over Fulham at White Hart Lane , in the race for the Champions League places . Spurs were searching for a first Premier League this year and took the lead when Peter Crouch took advantage of some uncertainty in the Fulham defence to clip the ball home from close range in the 27th minute . Harry Redknapp 's team were able to double that lead in the 60th minute when David Bentley made the most of a rare start when his free-kick was deflected past Fulham goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer . Elsewhere , Bolton manager Owen Coyle was given a hostile reception at former club Burnley but came away with a 1-0 win thanks to Chung-Yong Lee 's 35th minute strike which rattled in off the underside of the crossbar . Portsmouth and West Ham remain among the league 's strugglers after they played out a scrappy 1-1 draw at Fratton Park . West Ham took the lead when Younes Kaboul 's headed clearance looped in off the chest of Matthew Upson in the 52nd minute before Danny Webber rescued a point for Pompey in the 76th minute when he slotted the ball through the legs of Hammers goalkeeper Robert Green . Meanwhile Roma midfielder Daniele De Rossi scored the only goal of the game to give his side a narrow victory over nine-man Catania in the quarterfinal of the in the Coppa Italia . Catania goalkeeper Andrea Campagnolo made a string of brilliant saves before Italy international De Rossi broke the deadlock at the Stadio Olimpico in the 74th minute . Stefano Okaka cushioned the ball into the path of De Rossi who drilled it in the bottom corner with a smart left-foot finish as Blazej Augustyn and Giuseppe Bellusci were sent off for the visitors .
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Steven Gerrard returned to Liverpool 's starting line-up but his side were held to a goalless draw with Wolves on Tuesday . Liverpool are now three points behind fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur , who eased to a 2-0 victory over Fulham . Owen Coyle was given a hostile reception at former club Burnley but came away with a 1-0 win . Portsmouth were held to a 1-1 draw by fellow relegation candidates West Ham at Fratton Park .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- English FA Cup holders Chelsea secured their place in the last 16 of the competition with a 2-0 fourth-round victory over Preston at Deepdale on Saturday . Preston , managed by Darren Ferguson - son of Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson - produced a spirited performance but Carlo Ancelotti 's Premier League side possessed too much quality for their Championship opponents . Nicolas Anelka 's low strike put Chelsea ahead in the 37th minute before Daniel Sturridge slammed in a second just after the halftime interval to ease any nerves . Chelsea assistant first-team coach Ray Wilkins , who stepped in for manager Ancelotti at the post-match press conference , singled out Anelka 's performance for special praise . Wilkins said : `` From our perspective Nicolas is playing some outstanding football . He is a joy to have around the place . `` He enjoys his training , he is working extremely hard and he is getting the rewards from that . '' In the day 's late kick-off League One Leeds United scored a dramatic injury time equalizer as they twice came from a goal down to earn a replay after a 2-2 draw with top-flight outfit Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane . Jermaine Beckford , who was the hero of Leeds ' shock FA Cup victory over Manchester United in the third round , again stole the limelight for Simon Grayson 's side as he grabbed both goals for the visitors . Spurs took the lead through Peter Crouch in the 42nd minute before Beckford levelled for Leeds seven minutes after the halftime break with a well-taken finish . Tottenham looked to have secured passage to the next round when Russian international Roman Pavlyuchenko stroked the ball home in the 75th minute but Leeds refused to throw in the towel and were awarded a penalty in the sixth minute of injury time when Michael Dawson fouled Beckford inside the box . The Leeds striker dusted himself down and emphatically despatched the resulting spot-kick past Spurs goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes and into the top corner to earn his side a replay . A late goal from Wigan Athletic 's Ben Watson denied League Two Notts Country a famous FA Cup win as Roberto Martinez 's side fought back from two goals down to draw 2-2 at Meadow Lane and force a replay . Birmingham 's recent good form continued as they recorded a 2-1 win over Everton at Goodison Park with goals from Christian Benitez and Barry Ferguson . Reading , who knocked out Liverpool in the third round , added another Premier League scalp as they clinched a 1-0 win over Burnley thanks to a goal from Gylfi Sigurdsson while Portsmouth ended a tough week off the pitch on a high with a 2-1 win over Sunderland at Fratton Park . Elsewhere , Wolves were held to a 2-2 home draw by Crystal Palace , Aston Villa survived an early scare to beat League One side Brighton 3-2 at Villa Park while Fulham ended the dreams of Accrington Stanley as they ran out 3-1 winners .
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FA Cup holders Chelsea secured their place in the last 16 of the competition after they claimed a 2-0 victory over Preston . Nicolas Anelka 's low strike put Chelsea ahead before Daniel Sturridge slammed in a second just after halftime . Wigan needed a late Ben Watson goal to secure a replay against League Two Notts County after they were held to a 2-2 draw .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Six years ago , hip hop icon Wyclef Jean released a soulful tune called `` President , '' in which he fantasized about what it would be like to lead a country . That fantasy may come closer to reality when the Haitian-American recording artist announces exclusively on CNN 's `` Larry King Live '' that he intends to run for president of Haiti . Jean , who had been an outspoken proponent for Haiti through his Yele Foundation , told CNN Tuesday that plans to make the major announcement on King 's show Thursday night . Born in Haiti , Jean shot to fame in the mid-1990s as a member of The Fugees , a U.S.-based hip-hop and reggae group . He performs now as a solo artist . He was one of the first celebrities to offer aid after the devastating earthquake there in January . He told CNN late last month that he has filled out the necessary paperwork to make a run at the country 's highest office . In February , Jean said he has tried to promote Haitian issues in his work . `` I 've always promoted Haiti in my music , since my first album with the Fugees where we talked about what Haitians are going through and about human rights for people around the world , '' Jean said . `` This is how we came in the game , we never thought we were going to be music stars because the topics we talked about were not very popular in mainstream music . '' Jean said he was born in `` a small village in Port-au-Prince . '' He moved to Brooklyn , New York , when he was nine , he said . `` I had never been inside an airplane before -- me and my brother looked out the window and saw nothing but a bunch of lights , '' said Jean . `` I told my brother , ` Look , we 've arrived , it 's the city of diamonds , ' because it was shining so much . '' Jean said he grew up in housing projects in Brooklyn , `` one of the roughest areas at the time . '' He was able to grow from those humble beginnings to be a top recording star and now he says he will try to help rebuild his birthplace . iReporter : ` The dangers of a Wyclef presidency ' The January 12 earthquake in Haiti killed more than 220,000 people , destroyed 60 percent of government infrastructure and left more than 180,000 homes uninhabitable . While little is known about Jean 's political agenda , some of the lyrics from his song `` President '' may provide a sneak peek : . `` Instead of spending billions on the war . I can use that money , to feed the poor . ''
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Parts of northeast Australia braced for more flooding Thursday , a day after the nation 's prime minister promised aid to flood-ravaged towns , and half of the state of Queensland was declared a disaster zone . Emerald , an inland city of 15,000 residents , had essentially been isolated by flood waters and was accessible only by helicopter . `` Things have changed drastically overnight , '' said Megan Lewis , a radio reporter with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation , in an interview from the city on Thursday . `` Yesterday the town was expecting things to not be so bad . '' Waters have reached 15.4 meters -LRB- 51 feet -RRB- there and are expected to rise another meter on Friday , she said . Lewis did not specify exactly where in the town that level was reached . Some Emerald residents have been making their way to evacuation centers around the city , while others are stockpiling food and supplies . On Wednesday , the Australian government provided two Blackhawk helicopters to help evacuate all 300 residents from the town of Theodore , one of the worst affected by the floods . Queensland Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts said Theodore was one of about 20 communities that had to be evacuated because of the floods . `` Most of our major river systems have been in flood over the last week , '' Roberts told CNN . Besides Emerald , the other major population center threatened by flooding is Rockhampton , a city of 50,000 on the coast , he said . Forecasters have said the weather would clear over the next 48 hours , Roberts said , but the heavy rain the area has had so far means water has built up in river catchment areas . `` It does take a day to three days , in some instances , for that water to come down in some of the cities that are under threat , so we 're over the worst of the rain , but some of the worst flooding is still yet to come , '' he said . The Bureau of Meteorology said flood warnings remained in place for many areas of Australia , with major and moderate flooding still occurring throughout much of Queensland 's southern half . Thirty-one of Queensland 's 73 communities are now receiving government disaster assistance , Prime Minister Julia Gillard 's office announced . Acting Attorney General Brendan O'Connor said the government would continue to monitor the situation in disaster-declared areas across Australia and work with state authorities to provide more assistance .
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NEW : City of Emerald is isolated , accessible only by helicopter . Half of Queensland has been declared a disaster zone . Helicopters help evacuate an entire town of 300 people .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- She is small but only in physical stature . Aung San Suu Kyi is the very embodiment of Myanmar 's long struggle for democracy . The 65-year-old human rights activist has defied Myanmar 's authoritarian military junta with her quiet demeanor and grace . For that she has endured house arrest for most of the past two decades and , perhaps , has become the world 's most recognizable political prisoner . She has lived quietly by herself at her disintegrating Inya Lake villa in Yangon -LRB- the former capital , also known as Rangoon -RRB- , accompanied solely by two maids . The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has had little outside human contact except for visits from her doctor . Sometimes , though , she has been able to speak over the wall of her compound to her supporters , never once giving up her crusade to break down the tyranny of dictatorship in her beloved homeland of Burma , the alternate name for Myanmar . Known as the `` lady '' in Myanmar , Suu Kyi has been compared to former South African President Nelson Mandela , who spent a chunk of his life in jail for fighting apartheid . In an interview with CNN , Suu Kyi , in fact , likened Myanmar 's plight to South Africa 's former brutal race-based system . `` It 's a form of apartheid , '' she said . `` In Africa , it was apartheid based on color . Here , it is apartheid based on ideas . It is as though those who want democracy are somehow of an alien inferior breed and this is not so . '' The daughter of Gen. Aung San , a hero of Burmese independence , Suu Kyi spent much of her early life abroad , going to school in India and at Oxford University in England . She never sought political office . Rather , leadership was bestowed upon her when she returned home in 1988 after her mother suffered a stroke . During her visit , a student uprising erupted and spotlighted her as a symbol of freedom . When Suu Kyi 's mother died the next year , Suu Kyi vowed that just as her parents had served the people of Burma , so , too , would she . In her first public speech , she stood before a crowd of several hundred thousand people with her husband , Michael Aris , and her two sons and called for a democratic government . `` The present crisis is the concern of the entire nation , '' she said . `` I could not , as my father 's daughter , remain indifferent to all that was going on . This national crisis could , in fact , be called the second struggle for independence . '' She won over the Burmese people . The following year , the military regime threw her in jail . But even with Suu Kyi sitting behind bars , her National League for Democracy won the 1990 elections by a landslide , gaining 82 percent of the seats in parliament . The regime ignored the results of the vote and Senior Gen. Than Shwe continued to impose numerous terms of house arrest on her . Suu Kyi , meanwhile , became the recipient of several human rights prizes and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 . Over the years , Suu Kyi has repeatedly challenged the junta and discouraged foreign investment in Myanmar . In one incident in 1998 , soldiers prevented her from leaving Yangon . But Suu Kyi refused to turn back and was detained in her minivan for almost two weeks . The ordeal left her severely dehydrated , but was typical of her almost stubborn determination . `` She is the symbol of the hope for the people of Burma . If she is out today the whole country will rise up , will follow her , '' said Khin Omar of the Network for Democracy and Development . Over the years , Suu Kyi has made it clear that she remains devoted to bringing democracy to Myanmar . She has spoken of her separation from her loved ones as the sacrifice she chose to make for the freedom of her country . She has not seen her sons since 2000 . The year before , her dying husband petitioned the Myanmar authorities to allow him to visit his wife . He had last seen her in 1995 . His request was rejected . Instead , the junta encouraged Suu Kyi to join her family abroad . But she said she knew that if she left , she would never be allowed to return . Aris died of prostate cancer in March 1999 . Even before they were married , Suu Kyi had penned a letter to Aris professing her love of country . `` I only ask one thing , '' she wrote , `` that should my people need me , you would help me to do my duty by them . '' Suu Kyi tried to break the monotony of her life by playing her piano , another passion in her life , according to the independent Irrawaddy magazine . But the piano has been broken for years and she has taken up painting to fill the void , the magazine reported . One day , maybe , people will see her canvases . Suu Kyi has also asked her lawyers to bring her books in English and French . Last year , Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz was allowed to present her with his book `` Globalization and Its Discontent . '' Again in 2007 , people defiantly took to the streets to protest rising fuel costs . The demonstrations were seen as a direct challenge to the authority of the government . The regime answered with a brutal crackdown . Suu Kyi 's detention was extended again and again . She appeared gaunt -- and unhappy . Even when Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar in May 2008 , Suu Kyi was not allowed to leave her house , though trees were crashing down all around her . The following year , Myanmar was again propelled into the headlines by a bizarre incident involving an American , John Yettaw , who improvised flippers to swim Inya Lake to Suu Kyi 's compound . He said he had received a message from God to do so . Yettaw was arrested , and Suu Kyi was put on trial , charged with harboring Yettaw , and was punished with another 18 months of house arrest . During the trial , she was able to meet with diplomats . High on her agenda was the election that was held this week . She and her party boycotted the vote , certain that it would be a sham . `` In Burma , the regime can control people but they can not control her , they can not shut her mouth , '' said analyst Win Min . `` They can release other political prisoners but they are worried that if they release her she will speak out . '' The junta has organized national conventions to debate their version of a new democratic Myanmar . The road map makes no mention of Suu Kyi . Some believe that Suu Kyi 's stubborn defiance has become an obstacle to progress in Myanmar . But her followers remain ardent in their admiration . She has clung to her dream of democracy , peace and freedom for Myanmar 's 50 million impoverished people , they say . Those simple ideals have greatly complicated one woman 's life . CNN 's Dan Rivers and Moni Basu contributed to this report .
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Aung San Suu Kyi has vowed to fight for freedom . She has been under house arrest for much of the past two decades . She has defiantly challenged the authority of the military junta . She likens Myanmar 's plight to South African apartheid .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Didier Drogba muscled his way through for a late winner to put Chelsea into the FA Cup final with a 2-1 victory over Arsenal at Wembley on Saturday . A bare-chested Drogba is congratulated by Salomon Kalou after scoring the winner at Wembley . The all-London clash rarely hit the heights on a difficult pitch , but Drogba 's 84th minute strike gave Guus Hiddink 's men a deserved victory and leaves them in contention for three trophies . Dutchman Hiddink , who took temporary charge of the Blues in February and has lost only one match , said Drogba had proved his worth again . `` He is proving already he is so dangerous , very strong and physically fit , '' he told Press Association . `` We respect each other very much but also challenge each other without thinking this is a big name . '' Arsenal went ahead in the 18th minute as Theo Walcott 's volley deflected past Petr Cech , but Florent Malouda equalized for Chelsea just after the half hour mark . Chelsea looked the stronger against an Arsenal team missing key defenders and goalkeeper Manuel Almunia and it came as no surprise when Ivory Coast star Drogba scored a typical winner . He latched on to Frank Lampard 's hopeful volleyed through ball , shrugged off Mikael Silvestre before rounding Lukasz Fabianksi to roll the ball into an empty net . Ivory Coast international Drogba scored the winning goal against Manchester United in the 2007 FA Cup final and may get the chance to repeat the trick . Quintuple chasing United play Everton in the second semifinal , also at Wembley , on Sunday . Chelsea , who are a still challenging third in the Premier League and semifinals of the Champions League , showed their character after falling behind to Walcott 's strike . The England international winger connected with a chipped cross from Kieran Gibbs and his effort took a cruel deflection off Ashley Cole 's arm to beat Cech . Arsenal had made a fine start , but without injured central defender William Gallas and with Fabianski showing a lack of authority in goal , Chelsea came back strongly into the game . Malouda went close with a cross shot which eluded Fabianski , but he was not be denied soon afterwards as picked out by Lampard he cut inside Emmanuel Eboue and beat Fabianski at his near post . More slack defending from Denilson allowed Nicolas Anelka time to shoot and his shot hit the post with Fabianski beaten . Walcott looked occasionally dangerous on the flank and twice sent in crosses which might have been converted , but Chelsea looked the more threatening and the teams were spared extra time when Drogba powered through to score . Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was left to rue their defensive errors and the performance of his 20-year-old Polish goalkeeper . `` He 's a great goalkeeper but it was not his greatest day , '' Wenger said . `` Inexperience , yes . It was a game when any mistake could be costly . ''
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Didier Droba winner ends Arsenal 's long unbeaten run and puts Chelsea in final . Theo Walcott put Arsenal ahead before Florent Malouda equalized . Manchester United and Everton play in second FA Cup semifinal on Sunday .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Andrea Pirlo has ended speculation that he will join Chelsea by announcing that he has been taken off the transfer market by AC Milan and hopes to stay with the Serie A side for the rest of his career . Andrea Pirlo hopes to help AC Milan overcome the loss of Paolo Maldini and Kaka this season . The Italy midfielder has been linked with a move to the big-spending English Premier League club since coach Carlo Ancelotti quit Milan at the end of May and agreed to take over from Guus Hiddink at Stamford Bridge . The 30-year-old revealed on the Milan Web site that new team boss Leonardo was happy to keep him at the San Siro . `` Today is a great day , I 'm very happy to be able to end my career here , '' Pirlo said on Thursday . `` This is thanks to president Silvio Berlusconi , Adriano Galliani and Leonardo who have given me the possibility to end my career here by taking me off the market . `` When they communicated this news to me , we were all happy . Finally this story ends and I can continue my adventure with the Rossoneri . `` There was a possibility of changing teams , but in the end the club and I agreed to continue together and we 're all happier . It was an eventful summer with many doubts , but in the end my family are happy to stay in Milan . '' Pirlo , who joined Milan from city rivals Inter in 2001 , said that as a senior player he felt responsibility for maintaining the club 's momentum following the retirement of legendary defender Paolo Maldini and the sale of star player Kaka to Real Madrid . `` Milan 's history must continue to be winning . Us older players must take more responsibility and give everyone great satisfactions . The President has talked to us and he wants the story to continue , so we restart with great enthusiasm , '' he said . `` Leonardo is a very good person and he will show in time he is a great coach thanks to everyone 's help because he deserves it and we will certainly reap the benefits . ''
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Italy midfielder Andrea Pirlo ends speculation that he will join Chelsea . The 30-year-old says that AC Milan have taken him off the transfer market . Pirlo has been linked with Chelsea since coach Carlo Ancelotti left Milan . He says he now wants to end his career at the San Siro .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The explosive found hidden in a package on a plane in the United Arab Emirates on Friday may have traveled on passenger planes to get there , airline officials said Sunday . The explosive , along with a similar device found in the United Kingdom , appear to have been designed to detonate on their own , without someone having to set them off , the top White House counterterrorism official told CNN . `` It is my understanding that these devices did not need somebody to detonate them , '' said John Brennan , President Barack Obama 's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism . U.S. investigators believe al Qaeda bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri , 28 , is linked to that package and another one found on a second airplane in Britain 's East Midlands Airport on Friday , a federal official , who was briefed by authorities , told CNN Sunday . Both packages were addressed to synagogues in Chicago , Illinois . Al-Asiri , who is thought to be in Yemen , is a Saudi who was high on Saudi Arabia 's list of most wanted published in February 2009 . He is also believed to be the bomber who designed last year 's failed Christmas Day underwear bomb . Separately , an engineering student arrested in Yemen was released Sunday , along with her mother , according to her father , Mohammed Al-Samawi . She was earlier identified as Hanan Al-Samawi , a fifth-year student at Sanaa University in the Yemeni capital , said Abdul-Rahman Barman , a human rights attorney and activist who said he was asked to represent her . A high-level source in the United Arab Emirates said Hanan Al-Samawi 's name was found on the cargo manifest of the device found in Dubai . Also arrested was her mother , Amatilullah Mohammed . Barman had said the mother 's arrest was illegal and said holding the two in an undisclosed location was `` a criminal act . '' Authorities do not have any American suspects at this time , a U.S. official said . Two schools in Yemen were being looked at in connection with the plot and had been on the radar of U.S. officials before , the official said . The explosive device found in Dubai , United Arab Emirates , was contained in a Hewlett-Packard printer , and had a motherboard originating from a mobile phone , but did not have a SIM card in it , the high-level source told CNN . The device was professionally assembled , the source said . The motherboard was connected by a striker to the printer head and then to the cartridge , which was filled with explosives . Authorities have the serial number of the motherboard and the printer , and are searching to see where it was sold , how it was paid for and what information they can glean about the people who performed those transactions , according to the source . Authorities believe an explosive device found at the United Kingdom 's East Midlands airport flew from Yemen to a Persian Gulf state , then to Cologne , Germany , the official said . The device was then transferred onto a UPS plane . Investigators are still attempting to retrace the route of the Dubai device , according to the high-level official . Some believe it went to Doha , Qatar , on Qatar Airways , where it spent the night before traveling to Dubai the following day . However , it does appear the devices did fly on commercial passenger planes , the high-level official said . Screening the devices would have been difficult , since printers normally contain computer parts and wires , according to Richard Quest , CNN 's aviation correspondent . Qatar Airways , which said earlier Sunday that it had flown the device from Yemen to Dubai for FedEx , is no longer certain that is true , a senior airline source said . The airline is investigating the possibility that the explosives flew on another airline after finding inconsistencies in information it was given , the source said . An airline spokesman said earlier that two Qatar Airways passenger planes had carried the package . Emirates Airways , which also flies from Yemen to the United Arab Emirates , said as far as it is aware , it had not carried the package . The package was being sent by FedEx , which uses other airlines to get parcels out of Yemen because it does not fly there itself . The two devices found Friday look like they were put together by the same bomber who designed last year 's failed Christmas Day underwear bomb , a U.S. government official told CNN . `` The thinking is it 's the same person or group of people that built the underwear bomb , because of the way it 's put together , '' said the official , who had been briefed by multiple U.S. authorities and law enforcement sources . `` But this one is about four times as powerful . '' American authorities are now endorsing British Prime Minister David Cameron 's position that the explosives were designed to take down an airplane , the official said . However , a U.S. official said Sunday the United States has not drawn any conclusions on the intent of the bombs and whether they were intended to explode in flight , at the synagogues or somewhere else . American and British authorities think al Qaeda 's branch in Yemen is linked to the plot . A key figure in the group is the American-born Yemeni militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki , whom U.S. authorities have linked to Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Hasan and the man accused in the Christmas Day bomb attempt . Brennan on Friday declined to name al-Awlaki specifically as a suspect . `` Anybody who 's associated with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is a subject of concern , '' he said . Yemen is investigating the shipping agency that sent the packages , its President Ali Abdullah Saleh said Saturday , based on information provided by the United States and United Kingdom , who in turn are getting tips from Saudi Arabia . The United Kingdom is sending a security team to help with Yemen 's investigation , Saleh said . A specific explosive was found in both Friday 's devices and in the foiled underwear bomb attempt in 2009 , a source close to the investigation said . It 's a highly explosive organic compound called PETN , which belongs to the same chemical family as nitroglycerin , the source said . Six grams of PETN are enough to blow a hole in the fuselage of an aircraft . PETN was allegedly one of the components of the bomb concealed by Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab , the Nigerian man accused of trying to set off a bomb hidden in his underwear aboard a Northwest Airlines flight as it approached Detroit , Michigan , on December 25 . `` The quantity of PETN in these -LSB- new -RSB- devices was about five times the volume used at Christmas '' by AbdulMutallab , Col. Richard Kemp , the former chairman of the British government 's Cobra Intelligence Group , told CNN affiliate ITN . Yemen 's president said his country is cooperating with the U.S. , the U.K. , and Saudi Arabia . The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is sending six inspectors to Yemen to help improve cargo security , an official with the agency said Sunday . `` Even before this incident , 100 percent of identified high-risk cargo on inbound passenger planes was being screened , '' TSA Administrator John S. Pistole said in a statement Sunday , noting that security procedures will evolve based on the latest intelligence information . Over the past several months , Yemen , which wants to be seen as a committed partner in the fight against terrorism , has launched several offensives against al Qaeda in its country , but has not captured al-Awlaki . `` We acknowledge that we have a problem with terrorism , specifically the presence of al Qaeda , and we continue to pay a high price , '' Saleh said . The Yemeni government imposed new security measures at local airports , the SABA news agency said Sunday , including `` unusual check methods on outgoing packages from Yemeni airports . '' Meanwhile , U.S. authorities were grateful for a tip from Yemen 's oil-rich neighbor , Saudi Arabia , alerting them to the suspicious packages . Saudi officials provided tracking numbers of the two packages , enabling quick tracing to the United Kingdom and Dubai , a source told CNN . CNN 's Bharati Naik , Caroline Paterson , Jeanne Meserve , Mohammed Jamjoom , Susan Candiotti and Carol Cratty contributed to this report .
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NEW : The TSA administrator says security procedures will evolve based on latest intelligence . Yemeni student and her mother are released . Suspected al Qaeda bomber Hassan al-Asiri is connected to the plot , an official says . Investigators see him as a link between Friday 's devices and the 2009 underwear bomb .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- More countries pledged aid to Taiwan on Friday , days after Typhoon Morakot battered the island and left dozens of villages deluged with floodwaters , killing 116 people . This image from an ireporter emphasizes the damage inflicted by Typhoon Morakot . Officials from Hong Kong said they would recommend sending HK$ 50 million -LRB- US$ 6.45 million -RRB- in aid . The aid request needed to get final authorization . Once that happens Hong Kong will join a growing group of countries and territories that have rushed to help typhoon-battered Taiwan . More than 30 countries have offered money , helicopters , medication or other supplies . `` They have presented the goodwill to help , '' said Benjamin Chi , a government spokesman . Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou toured the Jiadong and Linbian townships in Pingtung County Thursday , then visited Kaohsiung County , where a wall of mud had cut off the village of Shiaolin . Watch why public anger 's building '' Meanwhile , nearly 1,700 people were rescued from areas devastated by the storm , and a government spokeswoman said she believed `` the situation is getting better . '' Janet Chang said 1,692 people were rescued Thursday , mostly from the two mountainous counties that bore the brunt of the storm -- Kaohsiung and Pingtung . However , a funeral director in coastal Kaohsiung County , where a makeshift morgue was set up , told CNN that about 200 bodies had arrived there -- many from neighboring villages . Relief workers cleaned and photographed the bodies , preparing them for identification by loved ones . Chang said that based on official figures , 45 people were injured in the storm and 59 remain missing . She could not say how many more people needed to be rescued . Watch a grandmother describe her escape '' Since the typhoon made landfall over the weekend , nearly 15,700 people have been rescued from villages hit by mudslides and floodwaters , according to official government figures . Most of the missing were in Kaohsiung County , the National Disaster Prevention and Protection Commission reported . Watch a makeshift morgue and funeral '' Torrential downpours , dense fog , rugged terrain and raging rivers have made rescues difficult . Washed out roads and bridges rendered ground rescue operations virtually impossible in the central and southern regions of the island . Rescuers were forced to search by helicopter , inflatable boats and zip-line mechanisms that suspended them over the muddy waters raging below . In some cases food drops have been conducted over isolated villages tucked amid the rugged terrain , as villagers sought higher ground to stay dry . The Central Weather Bureau in Taiwan said that over a one-day period after the typhoon hit , Pingtung County received a record 55 inches of rain -LRB- 1,403 mm -RRB- . Elsewhere on the island , rainfall amounts were as high as 83 inches -LRB- 2,108 mm -RRB- . Seattle , Washington , one of the wettest U.S. cities , has an average annual rainfall of 37 inches per year -LRB- 940 mm -RRB- . The storm primarily targeted southern Taiwan . Isolated scattered showers and thunderstorms were forecast for Taiwan overnight Thursday into Friday , mostly in the north , where the capital is located , said CNN International meteorologist Brandon Miller . `` As a whole , the weather actually is pretty good , '' he said . It was 90 degrees -LRB- 31C -RRB- late Thursday . Miller said Taipei had had `` significant rainfall '' of 5 or 6 inches -LRB- 150 mm -RRB- over the past two days . The Red Cross is helping the government dispense food , water and other necessities from a central command center , where helicopters pick up the supplies for their humanitarian missions , said organization spokesman Christian Li on Wednesday . Economic losses due to Morakot have been estimated at U.S. $ 274 million . After hitting Taiwan , Morakot roared on to mainland China on Sunday , killing at least six people and displacing 1.4 million , authorities said . CNN 's Pauline Chiou contributed to this report .
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NEW : Death toll rises . NEW : Hong Kong officials say they will recommending sending US$ 6.45 M -LRB- HK$ 50M -RRB- . More than 30 countries offer money , helicopters , medication , other supplies Official : Nearly 15,700 people pulled from flooded villages .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Former world No. 1 Amelie Mauresmo has announced her retirement from tennis , revealing that she no longer has the desire to play and train . The 30-year-old won two Grand Slam tournaments in 2006 as she spent 34 weeks at the top of the rankings , but has suffered a gradual slide since following a series of injuries and ended this year at No. 21 . The Frenchwoman won the Paris Indoor Open earlier this year , but it proved to be a false dawn in her return to top form and she skipped the final two tournaments of 2009 . `` I came here to announce the end of my career . I made this decision after careful consideration , '' she told reporters at an emotional press conference on Thursday . `` I do n't want to train anymore . I had to make a decision , which became evident in the last few months and weeks . When you grow older , it 's more difficult to stay at the top . `` It 's a bit sad , but this is the right decision . I was lucky enough to have an exceptional career and to experience very strong feelings on the court . `` I dreamt of this career , I dreamt of winning a Grand Slam title . I lifted trophies in every city in the world and I lived 10 magical and unbelievable years . '' Mauresmo claimed her first major win at the Australian Open when Justine Henin pulled out with injury during the final , but she defied her doubters by beating the Belgian to claim the Wimbledon title later that year . Henin and her compatriot have both ended their relatively brief retirements this year , but Mauresmo said she was unlikely to have a similar change of mind . `` Even if I 've learned to never say never , the players you are thinking about stopped earlier than me before coming back , '' she said . WTA Tour chair Stacey Allaster paid tribute to the player . `` Amelie 's accomplishments not only include winning two Grand Slam titles and becoming the first French player to reach the world No. 1 ranking , but leading France to a Fed Cup victory , and generously donating her time to various social causes , '' she said . `` Amelie is an extraordinary player , one of the nicest and friendliest personalities on tour , and a true champion both in tennis and in life . '' Mauresmo won the junior French Open and Wimbledon titles in 1996 before heading to the senior circuit , where she reached the Australian Open final in 1999 before losing to Martina Hingis . She became the first French player , male or female , to reach the top of the rankings in 2004 , when she won the silver medal at the Athens Olympics , losing to Henin in the final . But her career came off the rails in 2007 , missing two months due to injury and finishing outside the top-10 for the first time in seven seasons . The following year was even worse as she ended it outside the top-20 . Mauresmo won 25 titles overall , and was a losing finalist 23 times .
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Former world No. 1 Amelie Mauresmo announces her retirement from tennis . The 30-year-old holds an emotional press conference , saying she has lost motivation . She was the first French player , male or female , to reach the top of the rankings . But her career has been on a downward spiral since suffering injuries during 2007 .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Richard Gasquet has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the Court of Arbitration for Sport after the International Tennis Federation -LRB- ITF -RRB- and World Anti-Doping Agency -LRB- WADA -RRB- failed in their appeal against the decision to overturn a ban he had received after testing positive for cocaine . The 23-year-old Frenchman had tested positive for the drug at the Sony Ericsson Open in Florida in March of this year and he was handed a provisional 12-month ban . But an ITF panel overturned the ban in July , accepting Gasquet 's claim that the substance was only in his system due to him kissing a woman who had taken cocaine at a nightclub . The ITF and WADA chose to appeal that decision with CAS , seeking a two-year suspension , with the world number 47 attending a hearing last month . A CAS press release read : `` The CAS panel decided to dismiss the appeals after having found that in this particular case Richard Gasquet had not committed any fault or negligence within the meaning of the ITF Anti-Doping Program . '' The CAS panel also accepted Gasquet 's assertion of how traces of cocaine metabolite were found in his urine sample . The CAS statement continued : `` The panel based its ruling on the evidence provided by the experts called by both the player and the ITF , who agreed that the amount of cocaine metabolite was so minute that it must have reflected incidental exposure , rather than use in the amounts commonly taken by social users of cocaine . `` Furthermore , it was also established that the player was clearly not a regular cocaine user , even in very small amounts . As a consequence , the possibility of contamination became the most plausible explanation justifying the presence of cocaine metabolite in the player 's urine . `` On a balance of probability , the CAS panel concluded that it was more likely than not that the player 's contamination with cocaine resulted , as Gasquet always asserted , from kissing a woman in a nightclub in Miami on the day before the anti-doping test and that the player had met the required standards of proof with respect to the way of ingestion . ''
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Richard Gasquet has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the Court of Arbitration for Sport . The 23-year-old Frenchman tested positive for cocaine in a Miami nightclub last March . But he appealed his ban , claiming the cocaine was in his system after kissing a woman who had taken the drug .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Justine Henin continued her winning return to tennis with a straight sets win over Kazakhstan 's Sesil Karatantcheva at the WTA tournament in Brisbane on Wednesday . Henin , who put out second seed Nadia Petrova of Russia in her first round match , secured a 6-4 6-3 victory in one hour 17 minutes to reach the quarterfinals . The former world number one is returning to competitive tennis after an 18-month retirement and targeting the opening grand slam of 2010 at the Australian Open . She made a shaky start as she dropped her opening service game , but broke back and took total control with a second break against the determined qualifier in the eighth game . Henin also dropped service twice in the second set , but a run of five straight games set up victory , which she secured with a forehand winner . Her fellow Belgian and arch-rival Kim Clijsters reached the last eight of the top-tier tournament on Tuesday and could meet Henin in the final should both progress . Clijsters also made a comeback last summer after a two-year retirement and promptly won the U.S. Open , inspiring Henin to make a return . Clijsters will place Czech Lucie Safarova for a place in the semifinals after she beat sixth seed Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada 6-3 6-1 earlier on Wednesday . In the accompanying men 's tournament in Brisbane , top seed Andy Roddick cruised into the quarterfinals of the Brisbane International with a 7-6 6-3 win over Australian Carsten Ball . Roddick showed he is fully recovered from the injuries which ruined his end of season campaign in 2009 with a confident display . He now faces Richard Gasquet , who stepped up his comeback after a drugs row derailed his career , with a 6-3 6-4 win over Australian Matthew Ebden 6-3 6-4 .
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Justine Henin continues comeback with straight sets win over Kazakhstan 's Sesil Karatantcheva . Former world number one Henin into quarterfinals of WTA top-tier tournament in Brisbane . Henin remains on course for final clash against Belgian rival Kim Clijsters . Men 's top seed Andy Roddick also reaches quarterfinals where he will play returning Richard Gasquet .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Proving that the Wii 's motion-sensing controls were n't a fad , both Sony 's PlayStation Move and Microsoft 's Kinect had strong holiday seasons , suggesting a growing appetite for active video games . Sony and Microsoft sold more than 4.1 million and 8 million units over the holidays , respectively , on the strength of titles like `` Sports Champions '' and `` Dance Central . '' And as a host of new compatible offerings illustrate , both these and other manufacturers hope to further expand the market for gesture-tracking gaming systems throughout 2011 and beyond . Here 's a look at what 's coming in the months ahead . PlayStation Move . Like the Wii , the Move system features a wand-like controller that gamers wave about to control their avatars onscreen . Angling to entice hard-core players as well as casual game enthusiasts , Sony 's upcoming 3D TV-enabled sci-fi shooter `` Killzone 3 '' and military-themed blaster `` SOCOM 4 : U.S. Navy SEALs '' both will feature PlayStation Move support . Each offers more intuitive aiming through physical gestures , and looks to make a case for how well this new tech can integrate with more die-hard gameplay experiences . Titles with a more mainstream focus like `` MLB 11 : The Show '' -LRB- batting -RRB- , `` PlayStation Move Heroes '' -LRB- arcade mini-games -RRB- , `` LittleBigPlanet 2 '' -LRB- platform hopping -RRB- and `` Sorcery '' -LRB- spell casting via a plastic wand -RRB- are also planned . And nearly 50 titles in all genres , from adventure to sports to downloadable PlayStation Network games and third-party outings such as `` Time Crisis : Razing Storm , '' are now available for the Move . Kinect . Microsoft 's hit system , which uses cameras to read players ' full-body movements and translate them into action or sports games , will extend its immediate focus to a range of social applications . Announced at CES , the company 's new Kinect Avatar service utilizes the hands-free controller to allow real-time mapping of facial movements onto a digital character . When you raise your eyebrow , so does your avatar . Up to eight virtual avatars , all reflecting their users ' actual facial expressions , can hang out in virtual chat rooms -- including performance stages and other imaginative environments -- via Xbox Live . You can even record videos of their conversations . The Kinect also will feature such motion-controlled entertainment options as casual videoconferencing and , come spring , the ability to use hand gestures and voice commands to enjoy streaming video from Netflix and Hulu Plus . New upcoming titles for the Kinect , which cover a range of interests and play styles , include psychedelic shooter `` Child of Eden , '' automotive epic `` Forza Motorsport 4 '' and the humorous trivia game `` You Do n't Know Jack . '' Tablets , PCs and handheld 3-D . New gyroscope-equipped tablet PCs such as Motorola 's Xoom , Acer 's new Android slate and Apple 's rumored iPad 2 also promise potential new ways to bring motion controls to handheld gaming . Expect more titles that , like some popular iPhone games , let you tilt to steer on-screen vehicles , pilot dogfighting planes or aim virtual cross hairs . Motion controls manufacturer Softkinetic also plans to offer controller-free games shortly through its proprietary `` iisu '' 3-D gesture-recognition technology . PC gamers can soon enjoy motion control capability outside of racing chairs and plastic putting simulators . Sixense 's Hydra controller , which uses a magnetic field to detect your movements , is due in April , packaged with the popular puzzle game `` Portal 2 . '' The Nintendo 3DS , a handheld gaming system capable of producing three-dimensional special effects without the need for special glasses , will include touchscreen controls and dozens of custom games when it arrives March 27 . From touch-sensing Android smartphones to gesture-tracking TV remotes and accessories like Nyko 's Power Shot , which transforms the PlayStation Move into a plastic rifle , motion controls will be everywhere in 2011 . What 's next for these technologies appears to be a broader range of everyday uses that more inventively tap into the power of your own body -- the most intuitive controller of all .
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Sony 's PlayStation Move and Microsoft 's Kinect systems had strong holiday seasons . Sales suggest a growing appetite for active video games with motion controls . Manufacturers are angling to entice hard-core players as well as casual game enthusiasts .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- A wonder goal from Arjen Robben helped Bayern Munich snatch a 3-2 away victory over Werder Bremen which fired them back to the top of the German Bundesliga table for at least 24 hours . The Holland international winger lashed home a stunning second-half free-kick to give Louis van Gaal 's side all three points in an enthralling encounter at the Weserstadion on Saturday . Bayern had fallen behind to a goal from Werder midfielder Aaron Hunt , who neatly slotted home from close range in the 10th minute , before they equalized through Thomas Mueller 15 minutes later after he had been set up by Bastian Schweinsteiger . Ivica Olic latched on to Philipp Lahm 's cross in the 35th minute to put Bayern ahead as welcomed back France international Franck Ribery , who replaced Olic after halftime to make his first appearance for the Munich club since October having recovered from a knee injury . Werder , though , responded in the 75th minute when Portugal striker Hugo Almeida slotted home but they were on level terms for a matter of three minutes as Robben bent a superb free-kick past goalkeeper Tim Wiese and into the net . Coach van Gaal felt Bayern could have won by more goals as they went a point clear of Bayer Leverkusen who will return to the summit with a draw or better against Hoffenheim on Sunday . `` It 's unbelievable we 've only won 3-2 . We should have won by a lot more . We 've played well but missed far too many chances , which is a shame , '' van Gaal told the club 's Web site . `` It meant the bench was a stressful place right to the end . But it 's never easy against Werder Bremen . '' Elsewhere , Schalke missed a chance to keep pace with the leaders as they conceded a 90th-minute equalizer from Bochum striker Stanislav Sestak to draw 2-2 having thrown away a two-goal lead following strikes from Vicente Sanchez and Kevin Kuranyi . Borussia Dortmund are now only three points behind Bayern after they claimed a narrow 1-0 win over fellow challengers Hamburg thanks to Nelson Valdez 's goal while Nuremberg drew 1-1 at Eintracht Frankfurt . Elsewhere , Hertha Berlin were held 0-0 at home by Borussia Moenchengladbach and new Hanover boss Mirko Slomka got off to a losing start when his side were beaten 1-0 at mid-table Mainz while Stuttgart edged a 1-0 away win over Freiburg on Friday night .
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A wonder goal from Arjen Robben helped Bayern Munich snatch a 3-2 away victory over Werder Bremen . The victory moved Bayern above Bayer Leverkusen and to the top of the Bundesliga table for at least 24 hours . Schalke missed a chance to keep pace with the leaders as they conceded a late equalizer to Bochum to draw 2-2 . Borussia Dortmund are now only three points behind Bayern after they claimed a narrow 1-0 win over Hamburg .
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Toronto , Canada -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Police said they were preparing for more disruptions Sunday after groups of protesters burned cars , hurled bricks and smashed windows as they tried to penetrate the fence surrounding the G-20 summit . `` I do not believe that the individuals bent on vandalism and violence in our city have finished with their intent , so we will remain vigilant , '' Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair said Saturday night . More than 300 people were arrested Saturday , and 412 have been arrested since June 18 , said Jillian Van Acker , spokeswoman for the Integrated Security Unit . There were no reports of serious injuries to either protesters or police , she said . Blair told reporters that packs of disruptive demonstrators infiltrated peaceful protests in order to cause chaos and distract police . `` These criminals rely on the anonymity of hiding in a larger group of the curious and the naive , '' he said . At least four police cars went up in flames and smoke during hours of confrontation . Protesters left behind broken windows and graffiti . Blair said police used tear gas after warning a group of protesters `` engaged in acts of destruction '' Saturday . But not all encounters between police and protesters were hostile . At one intersection the crowd danced and chanted , `` You 're sexy , you 're cute , take off your riot suit ! '' More aggressive groups of demonstrators moved from intersection to intersection , trying to circumvent police and get to the security fence protecting the summit meeting . `` The fence is a symbol that they can build a fence and spend a billion dollars on their agenda . The fence is a symbol of what 's wrong with this country , '' protester Rolf Gerstenberger said . Everywhere the protesters went , police were waiting to head them off , in some cases with individual blasts of pepper spray , tear gas and bean bag pellets , according to the summit 's security unit . Authorities said the fence was not breached Saturday . Behind it , world leaders began an economic summit focusing on recovery from the global financial crisis . As they prepared for Sunday 's scheduled meetings , the U.N. chief urged them to remember that the world 's poor need help making ends meet now more than ever . `` Let me emphasize this evening that , under any circumstances we must not balance budgets on the backs of the world 's poorest people , '' U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said . Ban said countries should invest in agriculture , green recovery jobs and health . On Saturday , European Union Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso stressed that European leaders were already taking action to strengthen their economies and deal with a weakening euro caused by public debt woes . `` There should be no doubts . Europe will do whatever it takes to assure the financial stability of the euro , '' he told CNN . This weekend 's meetings come on the heels of the two-day G8 summit outside Toronto , where the leaders of the United States , Canada , France , Germany , Britain , Italy , Japan and Russia also focused on recovery from the global economic crisis . The group also made note of other thorny issues in their final statement issued Saturday , singling out Iran and North Korea for criticism . CNN 's Jeanne Meserve and Ali Velshi contributed to this report .
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Protests erupt in Toronto as meetings begin . Police arrest at least 300 protesters outside summit . G-20 meeting focusing on recovery from global financial crisis . U.N. chief says world leaders must help poor as they balance budgets .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar has been included in his country 's 15-man World Cup squad , despite doubts over the opener 's fitness ahead of next month 's competition . Tendulkar was forced to withdraw from India 's ongoing tour of South Africa on Saturday after straining his right hamstring . The 37-year-old has scored a record 17,629 runs in 444 one-day internationals , but has played just four over the last 12 months in order to focus on Test cricket . However , the world 's leading one-day and Test batsman was named in the squad for the February 19 to April 2 tournament , which is to be jointly hosted by India , Bangladesh and Sri Lanka . Cook not hopeful of England World Cup place . The south east Asian nation 's one-day side -- currently level with South Africa at one game a piece in the best-of-five match series -- have also been missing batsmen Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir as well as fast bowler Praveen Kumar through injury . `` I am not worried at all about the injuries , these are part of the game , '' Krishnamachari Srikkanth , India 's chairman of selectors told reporters in Chennai following the team announcement on Monday . `` I am confident the team will be fully fit when the World Cup starts , '' he added . India hold second place behind Australia in the official one-day rankings , ahead of co-hosts Sri Lanka , England and South Africa . Led by captain and wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni , India have been drawn with England , the West Indies , Bangladesh , Ireland , the Netherlands and South Africa in group B of cricket 's 10th World Cup . Defending champions Australia head group A with Pakistan , New Zealand , Sri Lanka , Zimbabwe , Canada and Kenya completing the line up for the tournament . Following the round-robin stages , four teams from each group will qualify for the quarterfinals .
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Sachin Tendulkar named in India 's squad for upcoming cricket World Cup . 37-year-old batsman strained his hamstring on Saturday during country 's tour of South Africa . Selectors confident he will be fit for the competition hosted by India , Sri Lanka and Bangladesh . Three other injured players have been included in India 's squad for February 19 - April 2 event .
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Tunis , Tunisia -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Tunisian opposition leaders joined the current ruling party Monday in a new government to replace the country 's ousted president , while U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a return to stability `` as soon as possible . '' The government will be led by current Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi , who took charge of the North African country when longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled last week . Ghannouchi 's 19-member Cabinet will include three opposition leaders and 10 independents , he announced Monday . The new government will be tasked with leading Tunisia toward new elections , he said . Street clashes continued in Tunis on Monday , three days after Ben Ali 's departure , with police firing tear gas into crowds of demonstrators in Tunis . Ban called on the new government to restore stability and the rule of law `` as soon as possible . '' Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on Friday after ruling the country for 23 years . His ouster followed weeks of protest over what Tunisians said were poor living conditions , high unemployment , government corruption and repression . Fouad Mebazaa , a former parliament speaker , was named acting president Saturday . He promised to restore stability and respect the constitution of the North African country . Speaking in Abu Dhabi , Ban told reporters the new government should protect human rights and guarantee freedom of speech and association . But he said he remained `` extremely concerned '' about the ongoing clashes in the streets . `` This is a moment for the Tunisian people to strengthen the country 's longstanding culture of political moderation and its attachment to peace , '' he said . `` I call on the government and all stakeholders to ensure a prompt restoration of the rule of law , and to respect and accommodate the aspirations of the people . Tunisia must regain its stability as soon as possible , to pursue the path of development and prosperity . '' The new government includes opposition leaders Mustafa Ben Jaafar , who will serve as health minister ; Ahmad Ibrahim , education minister ; and Ahmad Najib Al Shabi , minister of local development . Among the holdovers is Ahmad Friaa , the interior minister . Friaa , speaking later on state TV , said 78 people have died in the clashes across several weeks and 94 have been injured , among them many police officers . He urged people to stop riots and to work with police . He vowed that those who should be held responsible for mistakes of the past will be punished . And Friaa ended his speech saying , `` Yes for democracy , yes freedom , no for chaos . '' Friaa also said the cost of the turmoil of recent weeks is 3 billion Tunisian dinars -LRB- about 1.6 billion euros , about $ 2 billion U.S. -RRB- . The announcements came a day after the country 's army clashed with armed gangs and remnants of Ben Ali 's personal guard . Police have arrested looters and as many as two dozen of the ousted president 's relatives since Friday . Public protests continued Monday , as about two thousand people packed into a major road in Tunis . As the demonstrators tried to work their way toward the headquarters of the ruling party , police opened fire with tear gas . Opposition officials told CNN there were other peaceful demonstrations in towns in central and southern Tunisia . Tunisia 's unrest was triggered by the December suicide of an unemployed college graduate , who set himself ablaze after police confiscated the fruit cart that was his source of income . Recent diplomatic cables from the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia , disclosed by the WikiLeaks website , revealed growing discontent with what Tunisians believed was widespread corruption and nepotism within Ben Ali 's government . Experts say the kinds of protests seen in Tunisia could inspire similar actions , particularly by unemployed young people , in other Arab nations . In the weekend 's chaos , a group of Swedish hunters visiting Tunisia said Monday they were stopped on the streets near Kasserine and beaten . Some of the men 's eyes were swollen and blood-filled . One man had apparently been beaten on the back . Another man had a head injury . `` To be fair , when we look back , we can understand that our guns scared them , '' said one of the men , Ove Oberg , who met with CNN Monday morning . The men said by the time the army came and understood the hunters were tourists , they had been badly beaten . `` If the army did n't find us , we would have been dead , '' Magnus Josefsson said . Mohamed Guiga , a witness to Sunday 's clash between government troops and Ben Ali 's loyalists , said most Tunisians have rallied to each other 's aid since the uprising . `` We are proud of those people -- simple people , young people , normal people -- who take care of each other , '' Guiga said . CNN 's Rima Maktabi , Ben Wedeman , Per Nyberg , Matt Smith and Neil Curry contributed to this report .
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NEW : U.N. secretary-general is `` extremely concerned '' about ongoing clashes . Police used tear gas on demonstrators Monday in Tunis . Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi announces a unity government . Weeks of demonstrations have left 78 dead and has cost billions , the government says .
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LONDON , England -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- For Europe 's biggest leagues the football season has ended , the boring business of kicking a ball about is over , and now the real fun can begin as the transfer window opens . Cristiano Ronaldo has left Manchester United to join Real Madrid for a world record fee of $ 130 million . What is the transfer window ? The transfer window is a set period of time when football clubs are allowed to buy new players . Although players ca n't be bought outside the transfer window it does n't stop clubs negotiating transfers before the window opens , with players signing on the dotted line once it does . There are two transfer windows per year , one pre-season , and one mid - season , which is open throughout January . The English Premier League pre-season transfer window opened at midnight on the last day of the season -LRB- May 24 -RRB- and will close on August 31 , while in the other big European football nations -LRB- including France , Germany Italy and Spain -RRB- the transfer window opens on July 1 and closes at the end of August . Other countries operate pre-season transfer windows to fit the calendar of their own football seasons . See our choice of the top 20 transfer targets '' . Why does it matter ? The transfer window can see some of football 's biggest stars switch club and it is a period that can determine how a team will fare during the season ahead . It is a chance for coaches to rebuild and reinforce their squads , and a time when clubs can see their key players depart for greener pastures and bigger wage packets . When a club is active in the transfer window , making big name buys , it can be taken as a statement of intent for the following season . Just watch Spanish club Real Madrid bring in star players in an attempt to make up the distance between them and arch-rivals Barcelona . The global economic downturn means many clubs may not spend as much money this summer as they have in recent years , or that they may be more willing to trade or part exchange players if they are unable to meet a player 's price tag . The final day of the transfer window , known as deadline day , often brings a frenzy of activity as teams try to finalize deals before the window slams shut , drawing the curtains until January 1 , when the transfer fun begins again . Keep up with the latest transfer gossip with our transfer blog . Movers and shakers . This summer 's transfer window is likely to be dominated by one club -- Real Madrid . Their newly elected club president , billionaire construction magnate Florentino Perez , previously headed the club between 2000 and 2006 , when his policy was to bring football 's biggest names to Real Madrid . The `` Galacticos '' brought to Real by Perez included the likes of Luís Figo , Zinedine Zidane , the Brazilian Ronaldo and David Beckham . Now Perez is back in charge and seems intent on reviving his `` Galacticos '' policy , rsigning former World Player of the Year Kaka before smashing the world transfer record to spay $ 130 million for Manchester United 's Cristiano Ronaldo . Madrid have also been linked with Bayern Munich 's French winger Frank Ribery , Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso and Valencia winger David Silva . But Real wo n't have it all their own way , facing competition from the likes of Chelsea . New manager Carlo Ancelotti is bound to have brought a shopping list with him and the club 's Russian billionaire owner Roman Abramovich will want to show that he still has the financial muscle to compete on the transfer money-go-round . Then there is Manchester City , funded by the vast oil wealth of the Abu Dhabi United Group . The owners have so far struggled to attract big names to the club and will be keen to show that City are genuine Champions League material . At the other end of the spectrum Spanish club Valencia are in all kinds of financial difficulty and may be forced to sell their biggest assets , with David Silva and striker David Villa the most prized of all .
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The transfer window is the only time football teams can buy new players . Real Madrid and Chelsea are likely to be the biggest-spending clubs . Valencia and Newcastle United will be looking to offload some of their stars .
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WASHINGTON -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The Chinese military continues to increase spending on efforts to break into U.S. military computer systems , expand its Navy , and invest in intercontinental nuclear missiles and weapons to destroy satellites , according to the latest U.S report on China 's military power . Chinese military officers after a meeting about the People 's Liberation Army in 2007 . The annual report from the Pentagon to Congress says China 's total military spending in 2007 was between $ 97 billion and $ 139 billion , but it is hard to tell exactly how much was spent and on what . In comparison , the U.S. military budget request for 2008 is $ 481.4 billion , not including war requests . Pentagon officials said a chunk of China 's spending went to cyberwarfare , because 2007 saw several `` intrusions '' believed to be from the Peoples Liberation Army . In the incidents , unclassified U.S. military computer systems were broken into and information was taken , according to Pentagon officials . While the information taken was not classified , Pentagon officials said the worry is the Chinese hacking required many of the skills and capabilities that would also be required for a computer network attack . Last summer , a cyber-attack on Department of Defense computer systems took down the e-mail capability of hundreds of staffers for weeks , but the Pentagon still will not comment on who initiated the attack . It is widely believed among the military to have been the Peoples Liberation Army . China is also investing heavily in and fielding improved nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles and antisatellite missiles , according to the report . The United States expressed its concern last year after China fired a missile at one of its old satellites and destroyed it , sending thousands of dangerous pieces of space debris into orbit . The United States conducted a similar strike last month on a broken U.S. spy satellite before it re-entered the Earth 's atmosphere . U.S. officials said the satellite was hit and broke into thousands of small pieces that burned up as they re-entered Earth 's atmosphere . The United States is also concerned about the purchase of more submarines by the Chinese navy as well as plans for more aircraft carriers . The Chinese once had a small Navy . Now the United States is keeping an eye on the growing service amid concerns over Taiwan . The concerns include `` China 's near-term focus on preparing for contingencies in the Taiwan Strait , including the possibility of U.S. intervention , which is an important driver of its modernization , '' the report says . Additionally , the Chinese have placed about 100 more short-range missiles on the shore opposite Taiwan in the past year , it says . Pentagon officials worry the continued increase in Chinese military spending is slowly tipping the balance of power between China and Taiwan in China 's favor . The United States has said it would help defend Taiwan if China invaded . The report also says the Peoples Liberation Army is `` pursuing comprehensive transformation from a mass army designed for protracted wars of attrition on its territory to one capable of fighting and winning short-duration , high-intensity conflicts along its periphery against high-tech adversaries . '' Such an army , the report says , would have `` the greatest potential to compete militarily with the United States and field disruptive military technologies that could , over time , offset traditional U.S. military advantages . '' The United States says the lack of transparency by the Chinese on its spending poses `` risks to stability by increasing the potential for misunderstanding and miscalculation , '' and that China has yet to explain to the international community the purpose of its military expansion , Pentagon officials said . E-mail to a friend .
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Pentagon : Chinese military expanding its Navy , investing in weapons . Officials worry China is trying to hack into U.S. military computers . `` Intrusions '' have already happened , officials say , though info was not classified . Pentagon : China 's lack of transparency makes it hard to know the extent of activity .
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Beijing , China -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- China on Tuesday continued its diatribe against Japan over the arrest of a Chinese fishing captain and demanded his immediate release . `` Japan provoked this situation and Japan should take all responsibilities , '' said Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Jiang Yu . `` We urge the Japanese to stop so-called legal procedures and let him return safely and immediately . '' The captain 's fishing trawler crashed into two Japanese patrol boats last week off the disputed Diaoyu Islands , in the East China Sea . He remains in custody , accused of obstructing Japanese public officers while they performed duties . On Monday , his 14 crew members returned to China . The Japanese coast guard freed the crew members after completing an investigation , a coast guard official told CNN . Their detention angered Beijing , which repeatedly summoned the Japanese ambassador , demanding their release . Beijing says the Diaoyu Islands and most of the South China Sea belong to China , disputing neighboring countries ' claims . The clash over territorial waters and islands -- and the natural resources that go with them -- is a flashpoint in the Asia-Pacific region . `` Chinese people have expressed strong indignation to this , and this fully embodies the Chinese people 's resolve to defend national sovereignty , '' Yu said . `` The islands has sovereign rights , and no one can change that fact . '' `` If you read history documents , Chinese first discovered the island and put it in effective administration , '' Yu added . Word of the fishermen 's arrest has led to irate reactions from some of the Chinese public , as seen in online posts . On Sunday , a Japanese school in northeastern China was fired on with small BBs , presumably in connection with the fishermen 's arrest . The Japanese Embassy in China said : `` We have received report from Japanese School of Tianjin . The Japanese Embassy contacted relevant departments of Chinese government , requiring relevant departments to strengthen security at the school , to guarantee the safety of the students at Japanese School , as well as all the Japanese in Tianjin . '' `` So far , we have n't heard that anyone is injured , and we have n't got any result of the investigation , '' the embassy added .
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Japan is illegally holding the captain , China says . His crew of 14 returned to China on Monday , after Japan freed them . Their arrests off disputed islands has angered some in China . A Japanese school in China was fired at Sunday , with BBs .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- A man authorities believe was the last person to see a missing Texas cheerleader is the focus of the investigation and his attorney said he has offered all the information he knows . Shawn Adkins , the live-in boyfriend of Hailey Dunn 's mother , is the only named person of interest in the girl 's December disappearance , authorities said Wednesday . Adkins ' attorney , Sidney Lyle of Odessa , told CNN affiliate KTAB in Abilene he has advised his client not to speak further with the media . And he told affiliate KTXS that Adkins has cooperated with law enforcement . Lyle did not respond to CNN 's attempts to talk to him . There have been no arrests in the disappearance of the Colorado City girl , 13 , but police consider the case a criminal investigation . Two volunteer organizations have recently joined the search . City Manager Pete Kampfer , who serves as spokesman for the police , told CNN Wednesday there are other persons of interest but `` there are more things that relate '' to Adkins . He would not provide specifics . Adkins has not spoken with police since getting a lawyer , he said . Affidavits in the case indicate Hailey 's mother , Billie Dunn , and Adkins failed polygraph exams on Hailey 's whereabouts . According to the affidavits , Adkins ended two polygraph exams by walking out . On the third try , he failed the initial part of the test , but he then `` made a positive indication '' that the girl could be found in Scurry County , Texas . Dunn said Adkins was on anxiety medication at the time of the first test . Dunn was under the influence of narcotics on her first polygraph examination , and she failed the second , according to a law enforcement affidavit posted on the website of KTAB . Adkins was the last person to see the eighth-grader on December 27 at Dunn 's home , according to local reports . Colorado City -- a rural central Texas town with about 5,000 residents -- is about 70 miles west of Abilene , Texas . Hailey was reported missing by her mother December 28 . The Colorado City Police Department responded to a domestic dispute in February 2010 after Adkins allegedly threatened Billie and Hailey Dunn , the released documents show . Adkins confirmed he did make the threats , according to documents . KTAB on Wednesday posted three 911 calls on its website from the February incident . The calls referred to threats made against Billie Dunn and her estranged husband , Clint , but not against Hailey , the station said . In one 911 call , Billie Dunn said , `` I broke up with this guy a couple days ago and he 's a little ` MHMR . ' He 's telling me that he 's going to kill me and my ex-husband . And it 's going to be remembered for a long time . '' MHMR can refer to `` mental health and mental retardation . '' Asked about the 911 calls and affidavits , Kampfer said , `` They add to the case against Shawn . '' Billie Dunn told HLN 's `` Nancy Grace '' Wednesday night that she did not report that Adkins had threatened to kill Hailey . Marc Klaas , founder of KlaasKids Foundation , a child safety advocacy group that is assisting in the search for Hailey , appeared on `` Nancy Grace '' with Billie Dunn . He indicated someone not identified in the case might have come into the town and abducted the girl . Klaas created the foundation in 1994 after the kidnapping and murder of his daughter , Polly . Investigators have found evidence both in Colorado City and in other locations , said Kampfer , a former special agent with the FBI . Dunn has said she has no idea what happened to her daughter . `` Somebody knows where she is , '' she told HLN last week . The mother told HLN 's `` Nancy Grace '' Tuesday that investigators took bedsheets belonging to Hailey . Kampfer would not confirm that , but did say Dunn was given an inventory list of items taken by police from the home . Meanwhile , KTXS said that Hailey Dunn 's older brother has been taken into temporary custody of Child Protective Services . Kampfer said it is common practice to remove a child when a situation like this occurs , the station said . Billie Dunn met Adkins on the MySpace social networking site more than two years ago , and he moved in with her several months ago . Kampfer described the family situation as unstable . Hailey is 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds . She has hazel eyes and brown hair with blond streaks . When she disappeared , she was wearing navy blue sweatpants , a light-colored short-sleeve T-shirt and pink and white tennis shoes . Investigators , meanwhile , continue to work through leads . `` It 's a smaller circle , '' Kampfer said of the evidence . `` We are growingly concerned about her status , '' he said of Hailey . CNN 's Phil Gast contributed to this report . Watch Nancy Grace Monday through Sunday starting at 8 p.m. ET on HLN . For the latest from Nancy Grace click here .
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Polly Klaas ' father joins search for teen . Hailey Dunn , 13 , has been missing since December . Her mother 's boyfriend is the focus of the investigation . Both mother , boyfriend have failed polygraph tests .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- American taxpayers have forked over around half a trillion dollars to U.S. intelligence services since the 9/11 attacks , yet nearly a decade after al Qaeda assaults on New York and Washington , the American intelligence community still can not answer the most basic of questions : . Where is Osama bin Laden ? Where is his top deputy , Ayman al-Zawahiri ? And where is Taliban leader Mullah Omar ? As reported by CNN on Monday , NATO officials believe al Qaeda 's leaders are hiding somewhere in northwestern Pakistan , while Mullah Omar is thought to orbit between Quetta in western Pakistan and the southern port city of Karachi . As Pakistan is roughly twice as large as California and Karachi is a city of 18 million , these are not particularly precise locations for the world 's most wanted men . If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions , their shareholders would have long ago revolted , fired their management and their stock would be trading at values near zero . Instead , the budgets for the U.S. intelligence agencies continue to spiral upward , while almost a million Americans possess top-secret clearances . What does a top-secret clearance gain you ? Not much , judging by the content of the tens of thousands of secret documents about the Afghan War made public by WikiLeaks in July . The one surprising thing about this massive classified data dump was how little of it was in any way surprising . It contained the kind of material that the casual reader of news articles have long known : Elements of Pakistan 's military intelligence service may be supporting the Taliban ! The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know is n't exactly a secret anyway . Bin Laden declared war on the United States on CNN in 1997 and then again on ABC News a year later , and he soon made good on those threats with al Qaeda 's attacks on two U.S. embassies in Africa and the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen . In the summer of 2001 , bin Laden and his top commanders gave an interview to the Middle East Broadcasting Corp. , in which they dropped broad hints that they were planning a large-scale , anti-American assault , which turned out to be the 9/11 attacks . When President George W. Bush was briefed by the CIA a month before 9/11 that bin Laden intended to attack the United States , it was merely to state the blindingly obvious . Similarly today , al Qaeda and allied groups such as the Taliban constantly release videotapes and print products in which they lay out their doctrines and strategies and document their attacks and tactics , all of which are widely available on the Internet . The conflict with al Qaeda and its allies is effectively the first open-source war , which is the opposite of how the highly secretive Kremlin conducted the Cold War . Yet U.S. intelligence agencies remain largely configured as if they are doing battle with a superpower , rather than a network of jihadist networks . As a result , the CIA today more resembles an accounting firm than the swashbuckling , action-oriented spy agency of popular imagination . This is not an accident . Hiring by the CIA and other agencies in the intelligence community is predicated on passing a background check that has become more onerous since 9/11 and is a legacy of the Cold War notion that a superpower adversary with billions of dollars at its disposal is trying to recruit spies and informants . But al Qaeda has no capacity to buy spies inside America 's intelligence community , and , more broadly , al Qaeda and its allies have shown no ability to recruit inside the U.S. government . Yet applicants to the American intelligence agencies today are likely to encounter real problems with their background checks if they have relatives in the Arab world or have spent time in countries such as Pakistan , precisely the sort of life experiences necessary for effective spies . By contrast , the Office of Strategic Services , the precursor of the CIA , recruited bilingual agents deeply familiar with European culture who took great risks to undertake highly effective operations in Nazi-occupied Europe . In today 's CIA , those brave men and women would n't have made it past the background check . Much of the work that has been done to reform the intelligence community since 9/11 has been directed at fussing with the wiring diagram of its bureaucracy : Should the director of National Intelligence control CIA station chiefs , or is that the purview of the CIA director ? This kind of jockeying , of course , does nothing to solve the real question American taxpayers want answered : Where is bin Laden ? That question is likely only to be resolved by good old-fashioned espionage . Emblematic of what ails the intelligence community today was its reaction to the failed attempt by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -LRB- AQAP -RRB- to blow up a Northwest passenger jet landing in Detroit , Michigan , with a bomb made of plastic explosives on Christmas Day 2009 . To do the job , AQAP recruited in Yemen a Nigerian graduate of the elite University College London . His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab . There was a great deal of subsequent hand-wringing by Obama administration officials about how improved information sharing protocols might have worked better to assemble the shards of information known to the government about Abdulmutallab , which might have prevented him from boarding the Northwest flight . Their solution : Hire more analysts . But this was to misdiagnose the problem . The intelligence community is awash in analysts . While the precise number is classified , it is reasonable to assume that there are tens of thousands . What is needed is not more analysts but better on-the-ground intelligence . If the CIA had had a spy on the fringes of AQAP , the appearance of an educated Nigerian from London in the remote desert areas of Yemen where al Qaeda members hide out would have been something that the spy would have flagged to his handlers as remarkable . There does not appear to have been such an agent . What can be done ? The House and Senate Intelligence committees that oversee the intelligence community should hold the CIA to real account using a simple metric : How many jihadist groups including al Qaeda have been penetrated by its agents ? This is less onerous a demand then one might imagine . After just a few months of hanging out in Pakistan , Bryant Neal Vinas , an unemployed Hispanic-American convert to militant Islam from Long Island , managed to waltz into an al Qaeda training camp where he was trained how to attack American bases in Afghanistan . And that was seven years after 9/11 . Budgets should be cut if the CIA ca n't provide proof that it is penetrating al Qaeda and its affiliates ; at the end of the day , this is the most likely way that we will ever find bin Laden , who is not going to be voluntarily given up by the few who know his location today . President Obama should appoint someone in the U.S. government whose job it is to find bin Laden and who can coordinate that effort across the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community . Finally , the background check for spies should be reformed so that men and women with the regional expertise and linguistic abilities to penetrate and recruit inside jihadist terrorist groups are hired to go outside the wire and get the job done . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Peter Bergen .
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U.S. spends billions on an enormous intelligence bureaucracy , says Peter Bergen . He says nearly a decade after 9/11 , U.S. ca n't locate Osama bin Laden . American intelligence agencies are n't positioned to infiltrate militant groups , he says . Bergen : `` Budgets should be cut if the CIA ca n't provide proof that it is penetrating al-Qaeda ''
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Music producer and promoter Don Kirshner , who found songs for The Monkees to sing and whose live TV rock show helped wean 1970s audiences off lip-synched programming , died Monday in Boca Raton , Florida , his publicist confirmed Tuesday . Kirshner , 76 , died of heart failure , according to Sharon Ellman of the public relations firm Dash Media . A renowned song publisher and rock producer , Kirshner is best known for managing the songwriting talent behind the successful pop music television series `` The Monkees , '' and for his signature TV program , `` Don Kirshner 's Rock Concert . '' He achieved his first major success in the late 1950s and early 1960s as co-owner with Al Nevin of the influential New York-based publishing company Aldon Music . The firm had under contract several of the most important songwriters of the so-called Brill Building , including Carole King , Neil Sedaka , Howard Greenfield , Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann . As a producer-promoter , Kirshner was influential in igniting the careers of artists such as Bobby Darin , Neil Diamond and Tony Orlando , as well as discovering rock acts such as Kansas . As a publisher , Kirshner was behind hits such as `` You 've Lost That Loving Feeling '' and `` Where The Boys Are . '' Barbra Streisand , Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra were among the many performers who recorded Kirshner-produced songs . In 1966 , Kirshner , who had supervised the music for the sitcoms `` I Dream of Jeannie '' and `` Bewitched , '' was hired by the producers of `` The Monkees '' to provide hit-worthy songs to accompany the TV program . Within a demanding time frame , he quickly corralled songwriting talent to craft catchy tunes for the show , which became a smash hit among teen audiences . In September 1973 , Kirshner created , produced , and eventually hosted his own syndicated , weekly rock-concert program , `` Don Kirshner 's Rock Concert . '' The show 's long-form , live performances distinguished it from the often lip-synched fare typical among TV music performances up to that time . The show aired until 1981 and featured performances from many of the big-name acts of that era , including The Rolling Stones , Gladys Knight and the Pips , Fleetwood Mac , the Bee Gees , the Police , Stevie Wonder and David Bowie . Kirshner was inducted into the Songwriters ' Hall of Fame in 2007 . He is survived by his wife of 50 years , Sheila , two children and five grandchildren .
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`` Don Kirshner 's Rock Concert '' set the standard for live TV performances . Kirshner corralled the songwriting talent for the hit '60s TV show `` The Monkees '' He was influential in making stars of Bobby Darin , Neil Diamond and Tony Orlando .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Bayern Munich eliminated fellow European powerhouses Juventus from this season 's Champions League with a superb 4-1 win in Turin on Tuesday night . David Trezeguet put Juventus in front after just 19 minutes , but Bayern goalkeeper Hans Jorg Butt equalized with an impudent penalty just before halftime with Croatian Ivica Olic scoring the second on 51 minutes . Mario Gomez and substitute Anatoliy Tymoshchuk rounded off a brilliant display from Louis van Gaal 's men with two late clinching goals . The victory sees the German giants qualify in Group A behind Bordeaux , who beat Maccabi Haifa 1-0 in the night 's other match with Brazilian forward Jussie scoring the only goal of the game . Juventus went into the game at the Stade Communale with a point advantage over Bayern and looked set for the last 16 as French international Trezeguet ut them ahead with a volleyed goal . But Butt , who is proviing an expert from the spot , sent Gianluigi Buffon the wrong way after Martin Caceres fouled Olic . The second half saw Bayern continue to make the better chances and Olic gave them a deserved lead as Olic fired home from close range . The late goals were the icing on the cake and defeat piles the pressure on Juve coach Ciro Ferrara . In Group B , a makeshift Manchester United , who were playing with only one recognized defender , clinched top spot with a 3-1 win at VfL Wolsburg as Michael Owen grabbed an opportunist hat-trick . Owen put United ahead just before halftime with a glancing header from a Nani cross after a fine team move . Wolfsburg were more threatening after the break with the prolific Edin Dzeko equalizing with a fine strike to enhance his growing reputation ahead of the January transfer window . But Owen showed his predatory instincts with an 83rd minute second after a brilliant run and cross by substitute Gabriel Obertan . Wolfsburg defender Sascha Riether missed a cast-iron chance to equalize and put his side into the knockout stage , but United broke away and Owen completed his hat-trick . `` My scoring a hat-trick will probably make the headllines , but it was a great team display , '' Owen told Sky Sports after enhancing his claims for an England recall with clinical finishing . CSKA Moscow took second in the group behind United with a 2-1 win against Besiktas in Istanbul as Yevgeny Aldonin scored the winning goal in the fifth minute of injury time . But the Russians are facing a UEFA disciplinary investigation after two of their players , defenders Aleksei Berezutski and Sergei Ignashevich , failed a doping test for a banned stimulant after the 3-3 draw with Manchester United in an earlier group game . UEFA said on its official Web site that it would rule on the situation on December 17 , but could take action against CSKA because more than one player was involved , giving Wolfsburg hope they could yet go through .
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Bayern Munich beat Juventus 4-1 in Turin to qualify in second from Group A behind Bordeaux . Juventus went into Tuesday 's game in second place in the group but are eliminated . Manchester United top Group B as Michael Owen scores hat-trick in 3-1 win at Wolfsburg . CSKA second in the group but facing UEFA ban after positive dope test on two players .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- A second half goal from Nilmar gave Brazil to a 1-0 victory over an understrength England in a prestige friendly international in Doha on Saturday . The slender margin of defeat flattered England , with Luis Fabiano missing a penalty shortly after the breakthrough goal and Brazil captain Lucio crashing a shot against the post . In uncomfortable heat in the Qatar capital , Brazil always had the edge against and England team missing John Terry , his defensive partners Rio Ferdinand and Ashley Cole and midfield stars Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard . Wayne Rooney was handed the captaincy armband by Fabio Capello and gave a wholehearted performance , nearly giving his side the lead in the opening moments as he just failed to get a touch on an inviting cross by Shaun Wright-Phillips . But there were few other attacking moments for England in the first half and their goal was twice threatened as stand-in central defender Matthew Upson twice lost possession in dangerous positions . A shot screwed wide by Felipe Melo and Nilmar 's failure to find a teammate with his cross left his mistakes unpunished . England goalkeeper Ben Foster was also forced to make saves from Michel Bastos and the influential Kaka . Capello would have been happy to see his makeshift men go into the break still level but the effort was undone in the 46th minute as Elano 's clever cross underlined poor marking and Nilmar stepped in to head past Foster . England should have fallen two behind after Wes Brown 's mistake left Fabiano clear and he was brought down by his Manchester United teammate Foster . He was lucky to escape a red card but then watched as Fabiano made a woeful hash of the penalty . James Milner had a half-chance at the far post from another Wright-Phillips before Lucio found space to thump a shot which beat Foster and crashed against the post . England at least pressed in the closing stages but could not forge a clear chance against the five-time World Cup winners . Capello attempted to put a brave face on a lackluster display by his men . `` I think we played against a Brazil team who have the best XI in the world , '' he told ITV Sport . `` My first XI will be better than this one . But I found a lot of things positive . '' European champions Spain beat Diego Maradona 's Argentina 2-1 in an action-packed friendly at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid . Real Madrid midfielder Xabi Alonso scored two goals -- including an 86th-minute penalty -- to secure a home victory . Spain took the lead in the 16th minute after Argentina goalkeeper Sergio Romero saved David Silva 's angled shot only for Alonso to capitalize on the rebound . Lionel Messi equalized with a penalty just after the hour mark after Raul Albiol had been fouled . But Martin Demichelis handled in his own penalty area with four minutes left and Alonso netted the winner . Another prestige friendly saw World Cup title holders Italy and the Netherlands draw 0-0 in Pescara in a game of few chances . Home goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon became the fourth player to win 100 caps for Italy as he kept a clean sheet .
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Brazil beat England 1-0 in friendly international in Doha on Saturday . Villarreal striker Nilmar scores only goal of the match in 46th minute . Xabi Alonso scores twice as Spain beat Argentina 2-1 in Madrid . Netherlands and Italy play to goalless draw in Pescara .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Former world number one Venus Williams came through an injury scare to defeat Sandra Zahlavova 6-7 6-0 6-4 , in the second-round of the Australian Open on Wednesday . The fourth-seed Williams had not lost a set to the Czech in any of their four previous meetings , but Zahlavova remedied that when she claimed the first thanks to a tie break . After falling behind , the 30-year-old Williams required treatment in the locker room after picking up a groin injury and returned with the area heavily strapped to win the final two sets of the match . Williams , who is playing in only her second tournament since the 2010 Wimbledon championships after struggling with a knee injury , recorded her win in three hours and one minute . `` I was n't very happy , to say the least , '' the American said of her injury on the tournament 's website . `` I mean , with an injury like that , you just do n't know what to expect . I think what keeps me going is knowing that when I 'm healthy I play really , really well and knowing that I have so much good tennis in my body keeps me motivated . '' The seven-time grand slam winner -- who wowed the crowds with another head-turning outfit -- will face Germany 's Andrea Petkovic in the third round after the 30th seed also came from behind to defeat Britain 's Anne Keothavong 2-6 7-5 6-0 . The fashion verve of Venus Williams . Top-seed Caroline Wozniacki and 2004 champion Justine Henin had less complicated second rounds , with both winning in straight sets . World number one Wozniacki dispatched America 's Vania King in under an hour with a 6-1 6-0 win . `` I was playing aggressively , '' the Dane told the WTA Tour 's website . `` I took the balls early and made her run , and had a couple of good net approaches . In general I played solid . '' Wozniacki will next play Dominika Cibulkova , the Slovakian who beat her in Sydney last week . Cibulkova eliminated Alberta Brianti of Italy 6-1 4-6 6-2 . Belgian Henin , seeded 11th , beat British number one Elena Baltacha 6-1 6-3 at the Rod Laver Arena . The 28-year-old Henin has won seven majors and overcame Baltacha in 61 minutes , despite being troubled by an elbow injury . The Australian Open should be in February ! Henin 's next opponent will be former French and U.S. Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia . Kuznetsova , 25 , ended the hopes of Dutch qualifier Arantxa Rus with a 6-1 6-4 win on Show Court Two . Russia 's Maria Sharapova is into the next round after a hard-fought 7-6 -LRB- 7-3 -RRB- , 6-3 success over Virginie Razzano . Sharapova , a champion at Melbourne Park in 2008 , lost the opening three games of the match to her French opponent but bounced back to seal victory in little over two hours . `` Looking back , obviously you want to play faster matches with an easier score line , '' Sharapova , 23 , said . `` That would be great , but it 's also good to play these types of matches where you 're put in a situation where you have to find a way to win , especially when your opponent is playing really well . '' The 14th seed will meet 22-year-old Julia Goerges in the last 32 after the German eliminated 20th-seed Kaia Kanepi 6-4 3-6 6-4 .
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Venus Williams recovers from one-set down to beat Sandra Zahlavova in Australia . Caroline Wozniacki is also through after a straight-sets win at Australian Open . Justine Henin beats British number one Elena Baltacha in 61 minutes .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo has been included on the shortlist for the FIFA World Player of the Year award . The 2008 winner is one of five contenders for the honor alongside Real Madrid team-mate Kaka and Barcelona trio Andres Iniesta , Lionel Messi and Xavi . Ronaldo transferred from Manchester United to the Bernabeu for a world record fee in the region of $ 130 million in July , while Brazil playmaker Kaka joined from AC Milan in the summer . Argentina 's Messi and Spain midfield duo Iniesta and Xavi were at the forefront of Barcelona 's treble-winning success , which saw the Catalan club claim the Champions League , the Primera Division title and the Copa del Rey . Messi is favorite to land the gong after recently winning the Ballon d'Or award for the European Player of the Year . The nominees were confirmed following a poll of national teams ' captains and coaches from a list drawn up of FIFA Football Committee experts . The winnerswill be announced at the FIFA World Player Gala on December 21 in Zurich , Switzerland . Also at the gala the best 11 players of the year , as chosen by over 50,000 professional players from all over the world , will be honored in the FIFA/FIFPro World XI -- while the FIFA Puskas Award will be presented to the player who has scored the ` most beautiful goal ' during the past year .
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2008 winner Cristiano Ronaldo is included in the nominations for FIFA World Player of the Year . The Real Madrid forward one of five players on the shortlist , all with either Madrid or Barcelona . Lionel Messi is favorite to land the gong after recently winning the Ballon d'Or award for European Player of the Year .
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Miami , Florida , -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The Dalai Lama would like to retire . `` I 'm also a human being . ... Retirement is also my right , '' the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet told CNN 's Hala Gorani in Miami , Florida , this week . Without saying exactly when , he said , `` Sooner or later , I have to go . I 'm over 75 , so next 10 years , next 20 years , one day I will go . '' The Dalai Lama also said he supports recent protests in Tibet , where students marched in opposition to government plans to teach university classes in Mandarin Chinese , instead of the traditional Tibetan language . `` My real boss is the Tibetan people inside Tibet . So now , whenever they carry some sort of movement , I have to support , '' he said . He added that as long as protests are nonviolent , they should be considered lawful and reasonable . He sees signs of change in Tibet and remains `` optimistic '' about the region 's future , he said . Also in the interview , the Dalai Lama reiterated his support for recent Nobel Peace Prize winner , Liu Xiaobo , imprisoned in China . He said he joined a group of Nobel laureates , including South Africa 's Archbishop Desmond Tutu , who have called on Chinese authorities to release Liu . The Dalai Lama said he is not bothered if world leaders do not want to meet with him so as not to anger China . `` It does n't matter , '' he said . `` If they find it a little bit inconvenient , then of course , it 's absolutely OK . '' He said his main concern is meeting with the public to promote human values and religious harmony . Monk : How to practice compassion meditation . The internet and social media are `` extremely useful '' in engaging what he called a `` closed society '' like China , he said . The Dalai Lama is an active voice on the social media website Twitter , although he admits , `` as far as technology itself is concerned , I 'm completely ignorant . '' He said his staff tweets his thoughts for his almost 1 million followers online . The Dalai Lama is wrapping up a speaking tour of North America .
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The Dalai Lama says in interview he would like to retire . Dalai Lama : `` I 'm over 75 , so next 10 years , next 20 years , one day I will go '' The Dalai Lama said he supports recent protests in Tibet . Dalai Lama reiterated his support for Nobel Peace Prize winner , Liu Xiaobo .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Three Kenyan police officers have been suspended , authorities said Friday , after photos allegedly showed them shooting three unarmed men on a busy street in central Nairobi . Kenya 's largest newspaper , the Daily Nation , published the photos Thursday . It said they were taken by a motorist at the scene of the shooting in the capital . The first photo shows a man described by the paper as an undercover officer pointing a gun at two men lying face down on the highway . Another one shows the two men riddled with bullets lying in the middle of the road . A third shooting apparently took place , the paper said . A police spokesman confirmed that three men were killed , and three officers have been suspended pending an investigation . `` They -LRB- officers -RRB- are very much innocent until declared guilty , let 's not forget that , '' Eric Kiraithe said by phone from Nairobi . `` We are conducting an investigation and will have the results soon . '' Kiraithe said the victims have criminal records , and one injured a police officer in a shooting last week . `` That said , they have their rights as human beings , of course , so it does not justify their deaths , '' he said . The killings sparked condemnation nationwide , with human rights groups renewing calls for reform in the Kenyan police . The trio was compliant and had already surrendered , Amnesty International said in a news release . A 2009 U.N. report accused Kenyan police of misusing its power , and called for the removal of the nation 's police commissioner at the time . `` Killings by the police in Kenya are systematic , widespread and carefully planned . They are committed at will and with utter impunity , '' U.N. Special Rapporteur Philip Alston said in a statement . The Kenyan government said it rejected the findings .
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Three police officers are suspended in the killings . The pictures ran in Kenya 's main newspaper . A 2009 U.N. report accused Kenyan police of misusing its power .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- `` Death rays '' sound more like a sci-fi creation than a pool-side concern , but guests soaking up the sun at the Vdara Hotel in Las Vegas , Nevada , might want to take cover . According to a report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal , the reflective hotel 's south-facing tower can bounce rays that will melt plastic and singe hair at certain times of the day and year . Visiting lawyer Bill Pintas from Chicago , Illinois , had a scorching encounter and said hotel pool employees told him they call it `` the death ray , '' according to the report . Pintas , who co-owns a Vdara condo , told the Review-Journal his hair was singed as he was reclining on the pool deck around noon on a mid-September day . `` I was effectively being cooked , '' Pintas said . `` I started running as fast as I could without looking like a lunatic . '' The rays also melted the thin plastic bag around his newspaper , Pintas said . Hotel designers were aware of potential solar `` convergence '' and applied a film that reduced the problem by about 70 percent before the Vdara opened in December 2009 , according to MGM Resorts spokesman Alan Feldman . `` What remains are seasonal hot spots that are most acute of course in the summertime , '' Feldman said . Historic high temperatures in Las Vegas this summer have intensified the problem . Hotel staffers are aware of the hot spots and move guests around the pool deck when necessary , Feldman said . Planners are also looking at additional shading options or putting planters where the rays get particularly hot , he said . The hotel has n't received any complaints of injury beyond those reported by Pintas . `` Death ray '' media coverage in recent weeks has n't had any effect on bookings , Feldman said , and a 72-hour rate sale under way now is unrelated to the buzz . `` I suppose there might even be folks who are very passionate about the sun who want to come see it , '' Feldman said . `` It is n't a visible thing ... if you were standing in the middle of it when it 's 110 -LSB- degrees -RSB- , you 're going to feel it . We happen to be in a much cooler week this week so right now , today , it might actually feel good , '' he said , laughing .
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`` Death ray '' phenomenon reported by Las Vegas Review-Journal . Reflective hotel has created hot solar convergence spots . One guest said that rays singed his hair .
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-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- A man suspected of conspiring with a terrorist network responsible for the deaths of five U.S. soldiers in Iraq was arrested Wednesday in Canada , according to a statement from the U.S. attorney 's office for the Eastern District of New York . Faruq Khalil Muhammad , 38 , is charged with conspiring to kill Americans abroad and providing material support to a terrorist network that conducted suicide bombings in Iraq , the statement said . He was arrested by authorities after a U.S. warrant was issued for his arrest . The five U.S. soldiers were killed on April 10 , 2009 , when a Tunisian man drove a truck filled with explosives to the gate of a U.S. forward operating base in Mosul , Iraq . The trucks ' detonation destroyed a vehicle in a nearby U.S. convoy , killing Sgt. Gary L. Woods , 24 ; Sgt. 1st . Class Bryan E. Hall , 32 ; Sgt. Edward W. Forrest Jr. , 25 ; Cpl. Jason G. Pautsch , 20 ; and Pvt. Bryce E. Gaultier , 22 , the statement said . Muhammed is suspected of providing material support for that attack and allegedly sought to conduct attacks himself and become a suicide bomber , the statement said . `` There is no safe harbor for terrorists , including those who endeavor to spread violence from halfway across the world , '' said U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch in the statement . `` Today 's arrest demonstrates that we have not forgotten that sacrifice -LRB- of U.S. soldiers -RRB- and will continue to use every available means to bring to justice all those who are responsible . '' It was not immediately clear whether Muhammed had obtained legal representation . The Justice Department said it would seek to have Muhammed extradited to the United States for trial . If convicted , Muhammed faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment , the statement said .
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Faruq Khalil Muhammad was arrested in Canada . He is suspected of conspiring to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq . He was arrested by authorities after a U.S. warrant was issued for his arrest . If convicted , he could face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment .
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