Fifa president Sepp Blatter under investigation

Fifa has opened an ethics investigation against its president, Sepp Blatter.

The action follows a charge by Mohamed Bin Hammam, his rival in next week's presidency election, that Blatter knew about alleged cash payments.

Bin Hammam and vice-president Jack Warner will also be at Sunday's hearing to answer charges of bribery.

Blatter issued a statement saying: "I cannot comment on the proceedings that have been opened against me. The facts will speak for themselves."

The ethics committee are bound by their rules to investigate any complaint by an executive committee member under article 16 of the ethics code.

Bin Hammam and Warner face allegations from executive committee member Chuck Blazer that they offered bribes at a meeting of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) on 10 and 11 May.

A file of evidence claims bundles of cash of up to $40,000 were handed over to members of the CFU at the meeting in Trinidad.

Pakistani rupee falls to record low of 86.50 to dollar

KARACHI: The Pakistani rupee fell to a record low of 86.50 to the US dollar on Monday on increased demand for dollars for import payments and concerns that growing tensions with the West could choke off much needed foreign aid.

A major attack by militants on a naval aviation base in Karachi further weakened sentiment on the local currency, adding to the country's reputation for instability, traders said.

The rupee was trading at 86.20/30 to the dollar at 9:54 a.m. (0452 GMT), compared with its previous record low of 86.40 on Saturday.

Concerns over a reduction in foreign aid have flared since US special forces found and killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden early this month in a home near the Pakistani capital.

Ferrari drives in to tap desi luxury market

NEW DELHI: Italian sports carmaker Ferrari has come to India looking to tap the growing appetite of Indians for luxury cars. The company joins the league of other sports car brands in the country like Porsche, Aston Martin and fellow Fiat group company Maserati.

The company, part of Fiat's stable, will sell models like California, 458 Italia, 599GTB Fiorano and the latest FF, priced upwards of Rs 2 crore. Amedeo Felisa, chief executive officer of Ferrari, said, "India was coming up as an emerging market for luxury cars and Ferrari hopes to sell 100 cars in the next 2-3 years." TOI had first reported about Ferrari's India entry plans in November 2010.

Diesel, LPG prices may be hiked on June 9

NEW DELHI: The ministerial panel on fuels under FM Pranab Mukherjee is expected to raise diesel and cooking gas prices on June 9. Diesel price is likely to be increased by Rs 2-3 a litre and cooking gas by about Rs 35 per cylinder. The increase in price of diesel, which is the main transportation fuel, is expected to push up cost of essential items, all goods that move on trucks as well as bus and taxi fares.

A revision in diesel and cooking gas prices was in the offing since petrol price was jacked up on May 15 by Rs 5 a litre, the steepest-ever increase. The ministerial panel was expected to meet on May 11, the day after the last phase of polling was to get over in Bengal. But the government pushed the pause button in view of a see-saw in global crude prices after Osama bin-Laden's killing.

Google takes a 'Street View' of Bangalore

BANGALORE: Forgot the name of your favourite showroom in Delhi's Connaught Place or Mumbai's Colaba or Bangalore's Brigade Road? There'll soon be an easy way out. With the click of a mouse, you can virtually roam the locality and locate the shop that failed your memory.

That's what Google's Street View does. This popular feature of Google Maps is making its India foray through a Bangalore launch.

The web giant on Thursday took the first step of putting its camera-mounted cars on Bangalore roads to capture images of landmarks. To access narrow and uneven roads, Google employs a trike, a camera-mounted modified bicycle.

Hillary Clinton gives clean chit to Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday she was even more committed to Pakistan after Osama bin Laden's killing, but said the country needed to do more in its battle with Islamist militants.

Clinton is the most senior US official to visit Islamabad since relations between the wary allies went into freefall over the US Navy SEALs raid on May 2 that killed the al-Qaida chief in the city of Abbottabad.

Shrouded in blanket security, she met Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, before talks with army chief Ashfaq Kayani and the chief of Pakistan's intelligence agency Ahmad Shuja Pasha.

The discovery that the world's most-wanted man was living just a stone's throw from Pakistan's equivalent of West Point raised troubling questions about whether anyone in the Pakistani establishment was protecting him.

HSC results declared in Maharashtra, 70.69% students

MUMBAI: The results of the Maharashtra Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) were declared on Friday with the state recording a passing percentage of 70.69%.

Kolhapur division has topped the passing percentage with (82.55%) followed by Pune (79.32%), Mumbai (77.03%), Nashik (76.90%), Nagpur (67.13%), Aurangabad (59.30%) and Latur (56.57%) while the lowest passing percentage has been recorded in Amravati with 48.80%.

A total of 13,30,101 students had appeared for the HSC exam in the state out of which 4,35,999 boys (66.39%) and 3,83,503 girls (76.30%) have passed.

Following the announcement by the HSC board that the results will be declared today, long queues of anxious students were seen outside the cyber cafes in the metropolis.

Mladic due at extradition hearing

Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic is due back in court in the Serbian capital Belgrade for the resumption of an extradition hearing.

The session against the 69-year-old was halted on Thursday when his lawyer said he was in "poor physical state".

Gen Mladic, arrested on Thursday after 16 years on the run, faces genocide charges over the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

His extradition to the UN war crimes court at The Hague could take a week.

Gen Mladic was indicted in 1995 for genocide over the killings about 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys that July at Srebrenica - the worst single atrocity in Europe since World War II - and other crimes.

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Chemical attack part-blinds girl, 13, in Islington

A grandfather has spoken of his fury after his teenage granddaughter had ammonia thrown in her face in an apparently unprovoked attack.

The 13-year-old was walking in Islington, north London, with two friends at 2210 BST on Saturday when they were attacked.

The girl has been left partially blind in one eye. Doctors have said it could be permanent.

A boy, 14, has been arrested and bailed to return to police in late June.

The girl has asked not to be identified because she is afraid of another attack.

Her grandfather told the BBC: "A crowd of boys came riding past her and one of them sprayed her with ammonia.

Raid on US 'suicide kit' seller Sharlotte Hydorn, 91

A 91-year-old Californian woman who sells kits to help people end their lives says her home has been raided by federal agents.

Sharlotte Hydorn said they took away her computers, sewing kits and boxes of what she calls "exit kits", the Associated Press reported.

The kits contain a plastic hood that closes around the neck and clear tubing to hook up to a tank of gas.
She made headlines after a man from Oregon took his life using a kit.

The death of the 29-year-old in December outraged Oregon lawmakers who are now working on a bill to outlaw such devices.

Mexico gang shootout in Nayarit state kills 28

A shootout between rival Mexican gangs has left at least 28 people dead, officials say.

The gunfight took place at a crossroads near Ruiz in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, some 800km (500 miles) north-west of Mexico City.

Police found 28 men dead and four wounded when they reached the scene, which was littered with bullet shells.

In Michoacan state, drug gang violence has forced more than 1,000 people to flee their villages, officials say.


More than 34,000 people have died in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon launched a crackdown on the country's drug cartels in December 2006.

Nayarit state has a strong presence of one of Mexico's most powerful drug gangs, the Sinaloa cartel, which is run by the country's most wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.

Police: Parents Planned Calif. Murder-Suicide

SAN DIEGO -- The murder-suicide of four family members whose bodies were found in a swimming pool and bathtub at their San Diego home was planned by the mother and father, authorities said Wednesday.

Investigators found notes written by the parents that suggest their shared involvement, Police Capt. Jim Collins told the San Diego Union-Tribune.

"This event was probably planned by both of them," Collins said. "What role each played we are still trying to determine."

Police were awaiting autopsy results to determine how Alfredo Pimienta, 44; his wife, Georgina Pimienta, 38; and their daughters Priscilla, 17, and Emily, 9, died.

Mexico: 28 Killed in Drug Shootout in West State

MORELIA, Mexico -- Gunmen apparently from two rival drug gangs fought a ferocious gunbattle on a highway in a western Mexico state that killed 28 men Wednesday, authorities said.

The attorney general's office in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit said the gunfight started about 5 p.m. near the town of Ruiz, 500 miles (805 kilometers) northwest of Mexico City.

Police initially responded to a citizen complaint of a kidnapping by a group of armed men in a nearby city who reportedly fled on the federal highway, the prosecutors office said. As the officers headed toward the scene, they heard a second report of a shootout involving the same men, it said.

Police found 28 men lying dead and four others wounded when they arrived. Ten vehicles were abandoned and bullet casings from high-powered weapons were scattered about.

The statement released late Wednesday by the attorney general's office gave no further details.

NASA To Launch New Science Mission To Asteroid In 2016

WASHINGTON -- NASA will launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and use a robotic arm to pluck samples that could better explain our solar system's formation and how life began.

The mission, called Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, will be the first U.S. mission to carry samples from an asteroid back to Earth.

"This is a critical step in meeting the objectives outlined by President Obama to extend our reach beyond low-Earth orbit and explore into deep space," said NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden. "It's robotic missions like these that will pave the way for future human space missions to an asteroid and other deep space destinations."

NASA selected OSIRIS-REx after reviewing three concept study reports for new scientific missions, which also included a sample return mission from the far side of the moon and a mission to the surface of Venus.

Asteroids are leftovers formed from the cloud of gas and dust -- the solar nebula -- that collapsed to form our sun and the planets about 4.5 billion years ago. As such, they contain the original material from the solar nebula, which can tell us about the conditions of our solar system's birth.

After traveling four years, OSIRIS-REx will approach the primitive, near Earth asteroid designated 1999 RQ36 in 2020.

Once within three miles of the asteroid, the spacecraft will begin six months of comprehensive surface mapping.

The science team then will pick a location from where the spacecraft's arm will take a sample.

The spacecraft gradually will move closer to the site, and the arm will extend to collect more than two ounces of material for return to Earth in 2023.

The mission, excluding the launch vehicle, is expected to cost approximately $800 million.

NASA And Hawaii Partner For Space Exploration

WASHINGTON -- NASA and Hawaii have agreed to collaborate on a wide range of activities to promote America's human and robotic exploration of space.

The partnership also will contribute to the development of education programs and foster economic opportunities including new, high-tech jobs.

Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie and NASA Associate Deputy Administrator Rebecca Keiser signed a two-year non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement Annex during a ceremony today in Honolulu. The ceremony was held on the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's historic announcement committing the country to land an American on the moon and return him safely before the end of the decade.

"Hawaii has been part of America's space activities from the beginning of the space program when Apollo astronauts trained in the islands for their historic missions to the moon," Abercrombie said. "This partnership with NASA will broaden educational and employment opportunities for our local families and bring dollars into our economy."

The annex establishes a partnership between NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., and Hawaii to explore and test new technologies, capabilities and strategies supporting America's space exploration and development goals.

Under the agreement, Hawaii is proposing to explore development of a ground-based international lunar effort. It would use the state's unique moon/Mars analog terrain to enable development and testing of advanced automated and tele-robotic vehicles.

Baloch separatist movement not fuelled by India: US

The separatist movement in Pakistan's Balochistan province is fuelled by the country's domestic policies and not India, a top US official said on Thursday.

"I don't think that the existence of a terrorist or a separatist movement in Balochistan is fuelled by Indian financing or anything like that,"US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia Robert Blake said.


"I think it's fuelled by domestic issues that are internal to Pakistan," Blake said in his interaction with Defense Writers Group in Washington.

Pakistan has repeatedly accused India of supporting the rebels in Balochistan in order to destabilise the country.
India, however, has categorically denied the allegations

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Samsung launched a second tablet computer on Sunday, with a bigger screen and more processing power than the original Galaxy Tab that is seen as the only real rival to Apple's iPad.

Image: A new mobile phone "Galaxy II" by Samsung is displayed at the Mobile World congress in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. The Mobile World Congress runs from Feb. 14 to Feb. 17.

Nokia launches new X2-01 handset

In order to cash in on the growing demand of Qwerty phones, Nokia on Thursday launched its new handset Nokia X2-01 with its low price, colourful designs and optimised messaging ability.

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Hao Liu, Professor of Biomechanical Engineering of Graduate School of Engineering at Chiba University in
Japan, holds the Hummingbird bionic robot at the International Workshop on Bio-Inspired Robots in Nantes.


Some 200 bio-robot technicians from 17 countries participate in the three-day event to show the latest developments in robots inspired from the animal world.

Sony launches its first tablet PCs

Sony, a laggard in the booming tablet market, launched its first tablet computers in an ambitious attempt to grab the second spot in the market created and dominated by Apple's iPad.

Image: Kunimasa Suzuki, Deputy President of Sony's consumer products and services group, holds Sony's first tablet PC S1 at its unveiling ceremony in Tokyo

Ten killed as terrorists attack Pakistani military base

Karachi: Suspected militants have stormed an airbase in Karachi late on Sunday night, rocking one of the nation's heavily guarded military installations with fiery explosions and leaving at least 10 people, including six of them, dead just three weeks after the death of Osama bin Laden.

They also blew up a PC3 Orion aircraft in one of the most brazen attacks in years.

Pakistani security personnel are still battling with the militants holed up at the Pakistan Air Force's Faisal airbase which also houses PNS Mehran, the naval air station, the country's Interior Minister Rehman Malik said.

Iran's nuclear power plant to join national grid "soon": nuclear chief

Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereidoon Abbasi said the Bushehr nuclear power plant would join the national grid soon, semi-official ISNA news agency reported Monday.

"Bushehr nuclear power plant is becoming operational and its operational phase is passing a positive process," Abbasi said Sunday on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting.

"The facility will join the national grid soon. The achievement will be made public as soon as the nuclear plant is connected to the national grid," he was quoted as saying.

"No power has been generated from the facility so far and we are now only conducting experimental tests to launch the reactor," he said, adding that "we need to run the installation safely."

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said earlier this month that Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant will be operational within weeks.

Construction of the Bushehr plant was started in 1975 by several German companies. However, the work halted when the United States imposed an embargo on hi-tech supplies to Iran after the 1979 revolution. Russia signed a contract with Iran to complete the construction in 1998.

Completion of the plant's construction was postponed several times by mounting technical and financial challenges and pressure from the U.S..

New Zealand trucker 'blown up like balloon' by air hose

A New Zealand truck driver who fell on a compressed air hose that pierced his buttock has survived being blown up like a balloon.

Steven McCormack had fallen between the cab and the trailer of his truck, breaking the air hose.

The nozzle pierced his buttock and began pumping air into his body, which expanded dramatically.

As he screamed, Mr McCormack's colleagues turned the air off and lay him on his side, saving his life.

The accident happened at Opotiki on the North Island on Saturday.

Mr McCormack, who is 48, is still in hospital in the nearest town, Whakatane.

He said that doctors had told him they were surprised that his skin had not burst, as the compressed air - pumping into his body at 100lb/sq in - had separated fat from muscle.

Suicide car bomb razes Pakistan police station

Four people have been killed and 22 others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a police station in Peshawar, in north-west Pakistan. 

The force of the blast flattened the building, police said. Emergency workers were searching for bodies and survivors in the rubble.

The building was close to Pakistani army facilities and the US consulate.

Pakistani Taliban said they carried out the attack, the fourth since Osama Bin Laden was killed on 2 May.

The deadliest attack was a twin suicide bombing which killed more than 80 people, most of them paramilitary recruits, in the north-west two weeks ago.

Last week, the Pakistani Taliban bombed a US consulate convoy in Peshawar, killing one Pakistani passer-by and wounding 10 others.

Volcanic ash disruption: UK flights set to resume

Flights are expected to resume across the UK after a day that saw thousands of passengers affected by an ash cloud from the erupting Icelandic volcano.

Services in and out of Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England were hit as about 500 flights were cancelled across Europe.

UK air traffic control company Nats said harmful concentrations of ash were expected to have dispersed overnight.

However, some flights within the UK and a number to Germany will be cancelled.

Germany's Meteorological Service said airspace over the country's northern cities, including Bremen and Hamburg, would close from 0400 BST (0500 local time) because of elevated levels of ash in the atmosphere, prompting cancellations by some airlines in the UK.

They include BA and KLM, which is also cancelling some flights to Norway and Sweden.

Meanwhile, the UK's Met Office said ash might return to affect much of the country on Friday.

Forecasters said that if eruptions from the Grimsvotn volcano continued at "current variables", all areas with the exception of East Anglia and south-west England might be affected by ash, with the potential to disrupt flights.

"On Friday, at between 35,000 and 55,000ft, there could be a risk of a high concentration of ash covering most of the UK," a spokesman said.

The Met Office said the concentration of volcanic ash in the UK's airspace was expected to decrease significantly throughout Wednesday.

Oklahoma City struck as tornadoes sweep US Mid-West

Tornadoes sweeping the US Mid-West have struck near Oklahoma City, hitting vehicles on a section of motorway west of the Oklahoma state capital.

Officials said at least five people had been killed and many others injured.

The new storms come as rescue workers search for hundreds of people missing in Joplin, Missouri, about 200 miles (320km) to the north-east.

At least 122 people were killed there on Sunday by a powerful tornado that cut a wide swathe through the city.

The Oklahoma tornadoes hit rural areas to the west and south of Oklahoma City, officials said.
State officials said at least five people had been killed.

Palestinians say Netanyahu speech will not bring peace

Palestinian officials have dismissed Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the US Congress, saying it will not lead to peace.

A spokesman for Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas said Mr Netanyahu had created "more obstacles".

Mr Netanyahu had told the US Congress that Israel was "willing to make painful compromises" to achieve peace.

But he rejected US President Barack Obama's call for a peace deal based on pre-1967 borders, plus land swaps.

Reacting to the speech, Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said: "What came in Netanyahu's speech will not lead to peace".

Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images

Seventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite survey of Egypt.

More than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements were also revealed by looking at infra-red images which show up underground buildings.

Initial excavations have already confirmed some of the findings including of two suspected pyramids.
"To excavate a pyramid is the dream of every archaeologist," says Dr Sarah Parcak.

She has pioneered the work in space archaeology from a Nasa-sponsored laboratory in Birmingham, Alabama and says she was amazed at how much she and her team have found.

Libya: Rebels 'to open office in US' - Jeffrey Feltman

US Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman has said Libya's rebels have accepted an invitation to open a representative office in Washington.

Mr Feltman is the most senior US diplomat to visit the rebels in their de facto capital Benghazi.

The US has insisted that Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi step down, but has not given the rebels full recognition.

The visit came as Nato planes launched a series of air attacks on Libya's capital, Tripoli, the heaviest so far.
Libyan officials say three people were killed and dozens injured in an attack on the barracks of the popular guard.

Nato says it bombed a vehicle depot next to Col Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound which had been used by his forces in attacks on civilians. However, the Libyan government described it as a reserve military base and said the casualties were civilians.

On Monday, France announced it and the UK would also deploy attack helicopters to escalate strike power but a British minister has said no decision had been taken.

Greece default would hurt other countries, says Moody's

Any Greek debt default would likely hurt the credit rating of other peripheral eurozone countries, the ratings agency Moody's has warned.

In a statement on the impact of a potential default, Moody's said such a default would also hurt Greek banks.

Moody's also became the latest agency to say any kind of restructuring of Greek debt would constitute a default.

And Prime Minister George Papandreou is meeting opposition leaders to discuss Greece's latest austerity plan.

Canada officers shot in Quebec 'domestic dispute'

A Quebec provincial police officer has been killed and another wounded after an apparent domestic dispute ended in gunfire, officials have said.

A man in the city of Brossard was shot to death and a woman shot in the leg.

A police spokesman told local media that investigators believe the male officer shot himself and that all the bullets were fired from his gun.

He declined to specify the nature of their relationship. The shooting occurred in the woman's home.

Gales leave 3,000 without power in Northern Ireland

Thousands of people left without power because of high winds may not be back on supply until Tuesday evening, Northern Ireland Electricty has said.

NIE said its engineers had worked throughout the night and 3,000 customers were still without power.
More than 70,000 homes and businesses were affected at the height of the power cuts.

The main areas affected are the north-west, Coleraine, Ballymena and some parts of mid-Ulster.

Parts of south Derry and north Antrim were particularly badly affected.

NIE communications manager Sara McClintock said crews had been brought from the Irish Republic to help with repairs.

She said the main problem had been branches hitting lines with over 500 separate faults.

Marks & Spencer profits up 12.9% after 'good' year

Marks & Spencer says it has defied the retail gloom with a 12.9% jump in annual profits to £714.3m.

The profits before tax and one-off items came on sales up 4.2% to £9.2bn, with margins rising in the key clothing and food divisions.

Marc Bolland, delivering his first annual figures since taking over as chief executive, said it was a "good year" for M&S.

But he is cautious about future trading due to pressures on consumer spending.

Vuvuzelas 'may spread diseases'

Vuvuzelas - the horns used by football fans celebrating last year's World Cup - not only cause noise pollution but may also spread diseases, say experts.

A short burst on the instrument creates a spittle shower similar to a sneeze, travelling at a four million droplets a second, a PLoS One journal study shows.

In crowded venues one person blowing a vuvuzela could infect many others with airborne illness like the flu or TB.

Organisers are considering whether to allow them at the 2012 London Olympics.

Rapture: Harold Camping issues new apocalypse date

The evangelical broadcaster who left followers crestfallen by his failed prediction that last Saturday would be Judgement Day says he miscalculated.

Harold Camping said it had "dawned" on him that God would spare humanity "hell on Earth for five months" and the apocalypse would happen on 21 October.

Mr Camping said he felt "terrible" about his mistake.

But he said he could not give financial advice to those who spent their life savings in the belief the end was nigh.

Sat nav-style technology used to track UK seabirds

Tiny trackers are being fitted to the backs of seabirds in the UK as part of a Europe-wide effort to better understand their behaviour.

Scientists are tagging birds on the Fair Isle, Orkney and Colonsay in the Hebrides.

The project called Future of the Atlantic Marine Environment (Fame) also includes species on Bardsey Island in Wales and the Isles of Scilly.

The RSPB said Fame used technology similar to car sat nav systems.

Tepco confirms extra partial fuel rod meltdown at plant

Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) has confirmed the meltdown of extra fuel rods in reactors at its damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant.

The company said that the rods were in its Number 2 and Number 3 reactors.

Tepco has been trying to contain radiation from the plant, crippled by the 11 March earthquake and tsunami.

The company said that it planned to stick to its timetable of getting the radiation under control by January.

Tepco's announcement came on the same day that a team from the United Nations' atomic watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), kicked off a visit in Japan.

David Headley alleges Pakistan role in Mumbai attacks

A man who scouted sites for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks has testified in a Chicago trial that the Pakistani intelligence service had links to the group that carried out the attacks.

David Headley was testifying against Tahawwur Rana, a Chicago businessman accused of helping plan the attacks.

Mr Rana is accused of providing Headley with a cover to scout attack locations.

Mr Rana has pleaded not guilty. His lawyers say he was tricked by Headley, a former friend.

More than 160 people were killed in November 2008 when a group of 10 men stormed a train station, hotels and cafes and a Jewish centre, shooting and throwing bombs.

At the opening on Monday of Mr Rana's trial, Headley testified that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) and militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) coordinated with each other.

The ISI provided military and moral support to the group, he said.

He said a Pakistani agent paid him $25,000 (£15,500) for the operation. Headley has separately said he was trained by LeT.

Pakistan believes Headley is an unreliable witness and analysts expect Islamabad to flatly deny alleged links between militant groups and the Pakistani secret intelligence service.

'Blast' at new Iran oil refinery as Ahmadinejad visits

Six people have been injured in an explosion at an oil refinery in Iran coinciding with a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian media say.

He was not hurt in the blast and went on to make a televised speech to mark the opening of the refinery, in the south-western city of Abadan.

A technical problem caused the blast and then a fire, Fars news agency said.

Thick smoke was seen rising from the refinery but the fire was under control, the semi-official agency said.
The refinery is being launched in two phases and ultimately will produce more than 6m litres of petrol a day, mostly for domestic consumption.

Ryan Giggs named by MP as injunction footballer

A married footballer named on Twitter as having an injunction over an alleged affair with a reality TV star has been identified in Parliament as Ryan Giggs.

Lib Dem MP John Hemming named the Manchester United star during an urgent Commons question on privacy orders.

Using parliamentary privilege to break the court order, he said it would not be practical to imprison the 75,000 Twitter users who had named the player.
 
The High Court has again ruled that the injunction should not be lifted.

It rejected two attempts on Monday to overturn the ban, the first after a Scottish paper named the footballer on Sunday, and the second after Mr Hemming's action.

The player obtained the order against ex-Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas, who is a former Miss Wales, and the Sun newspaper.

Sarkozy to host key internet forum ahead of G8 summit

he world's most powerful internet and media bosses are gathering in Paris for a two-day meeting hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.


The heads of Google, Facebook and Microsoft are due to attend to discuss the future of the internet.

The debate over whether - and how far - to regulate the internet is expected to dominate the forum.

The conclusions of the event are to be presented to the G8 summit later in the week at the French resort of Deauville.

This is the first time the internet will be discussed by the leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) wealthy nations, says the BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris.

Thousands face volcanic ash cloud flight cancellations

Thousands of passengers face UK flight cancellations because of drifting ash from an Icelandic volcanic eruption.

BA, KLM, Aer Lingus and Easyjet are among the airlines that have chosen to suspend services in and out of Scotland for the coming hours.

But Ryanair has objected to an order from Irish officials to ground its morning flights to and from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen on safety grounds.

It said it would be complaining about the "unnecessary cancellations".

A statement on Ryanair's website read: "Ryanair strongly object to this decision and believe that there is no basis for these flight cancellations and will be meeting with the [Irish Aviation Authority] on Tuesday morning to have this restriction on Ryanair flights removed as a matter of urgency."

Libya: Nato steps up air strikes on Tripoli

Nato planes have launched a series of air attacks on Libya's capital Tripoli, with correspondents saying they may be the largest so far of the campaign.

Some of the strikes appear to have targeted Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound.

They came after France announced it and the UK would also deploy attack helicopters to escalate strike power.

Nato is enforcing a UN resolution to protect civilians, following the uprising against Col Gaddafi's rule.

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Sony Profit Forecast Misses Estimates on Japan Earthquake, Hacking Attack

Japan’s largest exporter of consumer electronics, forecast earnings below analysts’ estimates after the nation’s record earthquake crippled factories and hackers invaded its online entertainment services.
 

Operating income in the 12 months ending March 2012 will be similar to the 200 billion yen ($2.5 billion) last fiscal year, the Tokyo-based company said in a preliminary earnings statement today.

The forecast missed the 254.7 billion yen average of nine analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.

Sony forecast net income will turn positive after a 360 billion yen tax charge led to the biggest annual loss in 16 years.

The maker of Bravia televisions is struggling to improve earnings even after restarting plants that were disrupted by Japan’s 9-magnitude temblor and ensuing power shortages.

 The company is trying to fully resume its PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services after an attack by hackers compromised personal information from more than 100 million user accounts.

Lancashire Police 'donor blunder' over Jane Clough

A murder victim was denied her wish to be an organ donor because of of police blunder, her family have revealed.

Lancashire Police told the family of murdered nurse Jane Clough in a letter it would now improve training for its officers after their complaints.

Penny and John Clough said they were told by police it could not be done as it would affect the suspect's right to demand a second post-mortem test.

The force said it was currently investigating the issues.

Laser puts record data rate through fibre

Researchers have set a new record for the rate of data transfer using a single laser: 26 terabits per second.

At those speeds, the entire Library of Congress collections could be sent down an optical fibre in 10 seconds.

The trick is to use what is known as a "fast Fourier transform" to unpick more than 300 separate colours of light in a laser beam, each encoded with its own string of information.

The technique is described in the journal Nature Photonics.

The push for higher data rates in light-based telecommunications technologies has seen a number of significant leaps in recent years.

While the earliest optical fibre technologies encoded a string of data as "wiggles" within a single colour of light sent down a fibre, newer approaches have used a number of tricks to increase data rates.

Australian widow allowed to use dead husband's sperm

An Australian woman who had discussed fertility treatments with her husband before he died has been allowed by a court to use his frozen sperm for IVF.

Justice Robert Hulme in the New South Wales Supreme Court ruled that Jocelyn Edwards was entitled to use the sperm.

It had been extracted posthumously from her husband, Mark Edwards, after he died in an accident at work.

The case was a landmark in a state where IVF treatment is banned without the consent of the donor.

Ms Edwards will need to move to another state to have the sperm inseminated.

"It's the right decision. Mark would be so happy, we're going to have our baby. That's what I plan to do," she said outside the court.

"I just want to get past today, enjoy the moment. It's been a long, long, long, difficult time," she added.

Sudan: UN urges Khartoum to pullout from Abyei region

UN Security Council envoys have urged North Sudan to "withdraw immediately" its troops from the contested Abyei region on the border with South Sudan. 

The call was made by the UN diplomats who are on a tour of Sudan.

South Sudan said the Abyei takeover was an act of war, saying civilians and southern soldiers were killed.

South Sudan is due to become independent in July, but Abyei's status remains to be determined after a referendum on its future was shelved.

The North said it acted after 22 of its men were killed in a southern ambush earlier this week.

Ash from Icelandic volcano 'may drift over UK'

Ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland could begin to drift across the UK towards the end of the week, forecasters have said.

Aviation officials said there was no effect on UK airspace at present, but they were "monitoring the situation closely".

The Grimsvotn volcano is experiencing its largest eruption in 100 years.

It comes a year after ash from the Eyjafjallajokull eruption reached Europe, closing much of its airspace.

A spokesman for the Met Office, which runs Europe's Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre, said: "This is a very different situation to last April.

"The weather is much more changeable and there's a lot more uncertainty. There's no risk of the ash moving across the UK in the next day or so.

"But there is a possibility that we'll see some volcanic ash towards the end of the week."

Icelandic air traffic control has created a no-fly zone around the volcano, closed Keflavik airport, the country's main hub, and cancelled all domestic flights.

Eurocontrol, the European air safety organisation, said no impact was expected on European airspace outside Iceland or on transatlantic flights for at least 24 hours.

A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority said: "We're monitoring the situation closely and working with our colleagues at National Air Traffic Services and the Met Office.

"There's no effect on UK airspace at present. We're just waiting to see which way the ash plume moves.
"We should have more of an idea within the next 12 hours or so."

Barack Obama lands in Ireland at start of European tour

US President Barack Obama has landed in the Republic of Ireland at the start of a week-long tour of Europe.

The president will also visit the UK, France and Poland. In France, he will attend a meeting of the Group of Eight (G8) major world powers.

Security will be tight following the US raid that killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan three weeks ago.

After arriving in Dublin, President Obama will meet Irish President Mary McAleese and then hold talks with Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

Later, the US leader, together with First Lady Michelle Obama, will visit the village of Moneygall, Co Offaly, which was the home of his great-great-great grandfather on his mother's side, Falmouth Kearney.

A huge security operation has been put in place around the village.

Moneygall, which only has 300 residents, has covered its main street in stars and stripes and prepared a warm welcome for President Obama in the village pub.

Back in Dublin, President Obama will deliver an open-air speech on College Green.

Mirwaiz denies secret meet with ISI

Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has denied that he had a meeting with ISI Chief Shuja Pasha in Geneva earlier this month. Farooq said he was in Brussels for a conference on Kashmir but he did not travel to Geneva as alleged and he definitely did not have a meeting with the ISI Chief.

''There is no basis as far as the report is concerned because I did not go to Geneva. I was attending a conference in Brussels. We had delegates from Pakistan.

They had all come to the discourse on Kashmir for the European Parliament. That's the only leadership as far as Pakistan is concerned.

The reports that I went to Geneva and had a secret the ISI chief are completely baseless. There are some agencies that are trying to link the Kashmir and the Kashmiris movement with agencies. I don't know what the basis of this report is'', Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said

CBSE declare the 12th result

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Central Board of Secondary Education will announce the results of senior school certificate examination, class XII, on Monday at 10 am, a press release from CBSE said. The CBSE results for students will be sent to their email addresses from the sites: www.results.nic.in, www.cbseresults.nic.in, www.cbse.nic.in. Students should register at these sites to avail this facility.

Schools can also get their entire results by giving their school code and email id and registering themselves. The results will also be available through interactive voice response system at 30 paise per minute. Students can call 011-24357270/011-28127030. Mobile users will have to dial the numbers as per the respective service providers. Idea subscribers can call 55456068, BSNL 1255536, Aircel 5550099, Tata docomo 54321223, Airtel 54321202, and Vodafone 56735.

Students will also be able to access the results on the mobile by sending out an sms to specified numbers designated by different service providers. Students should sms cbse12 rollno' to 92123 57123 belonging to NIC to get their results by sms. They can also send sms in the same format to 52001 for MTNL, 57766 for BSNL, 5800002 for Aircel, 55456068 for Idea, 54321 for Tata Docomo, 54321202 for Airtel, 56735 for Vodafone.

CBSE will also provide post-result counseling to help students and parents beat stress and anxiety, from May 23 to June 6. Students can dial a toll-free number 1800 11 7002 from any part of the country. This will give centralized access to CBSE helpline. While the general queries will be answered by the operators, students will be connected to the principals or counselors in case of exam-related anxiety or stress, said the release. Counselling will also be provided through interactive voice response system for BSNL users on 1250102.

India's unwanted girls

India's 2011 census shows a serious decline in the number of girls under the age of seven - activists fear eight million female foetuses may have been aborted in the past decade.

Kulwant has three daughters aged 24, 23 and 20 and a son who is 16.

In the years between the birth of her third daughter and her son, Kulwant became pregnant three times.

Each time, she says, she was forced to abort the foetus by her family after ultrasound tests confirmed that they were girls.

"My mother-in-law taunted me for giving birth to girls. She said her son would divorce me if I didn't bear a son."

Kulwant still has vivid memories of the first abortion. "The baby was nearly five months old. She was beautiful. I miss her, and the others we killed," she says, breaking down, wiping away her tears.

Until her son was born, Kulwant's daily life consisted of beatings and abuse from her husband, mother-in-law and brother-in-law. Once, she says, they even attempted to set her on fire.

"They were angry. They didn't want girls in the family. They wanted boys so they could get fat dowries," she says.

India outlawed dowries in 1961, but the practice remains rampant and the value of dowries is constantly growing, affecting rich and poor alike.

Kulwant's husband died three years after the birth of their son. "It was the curse of the daughters we killed. That's why he died so young," she says

Ryanair profits up but it warns on lack of 2012 growth

Irish budget carrier Ryanair has reported a 401m euros ($564m; £348m) net annual profit, a 26% rise.

But the airline says high fuel cost, and a lack of growth in capacity, will mean no increase in profit next year.
It envisages a 4% growth in passenger numbers in 2012, to 75 million, and said that average fares would rise in line with increased fuel costs.

The airline saw 14,000 flights cancelled during the year to 31 March due to volcanic ash, snow and strikes.
It also said its fuel costs rose by 37% during the 12 months.

However, the airline now has 90% of its fuel needs hedged at a cost of $820 per tonne, which it says would give it an advantage over competitors.

Missouri: Tornado batters Joplin, at least 30 dead

As many as 30 people are reported killed after a tornado tore through the city of Joplin in the US state of Missouri, officials say.

The town suffered a "direct hit" from the tornado and parts of the city have been devastated, local media says.

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has declared a state of emergency and warned more storms are on the way.

Last month, tornadoes and storms killed at least 350 people in Alabama and six other southern states.

John Miller, a freelance photographer for the Springfield News-Leader newspaper, described widespread damage in Joplin.

"The Home Depot is levelled. The Walmart is destroyed. Gas stations, buildings. Everywhere I could see was either heavily damaged or completely destroyed," he said.

Libya: Catherine Ashton opens EU office in Benghazi

The European Union's foreign policy chief has opened an EU office in the rebel-held Libyan city of Benghazi.

Catherine Ashton said the rebel Transitional National Council (TNC) represented the aspirations of Libyans and would receive support from the EU.

Her visit is being seen as a boost for the TNC as it seeks recognition.

It came after Nato warplanes carried out further attacks on government targets in Tripoli, including Col Muammar Gaddafi's compound.

Opening the new EU mission in Benghazi, Baroness Ashton said: "We are here for the long term."
She added: "What we can offer is support to Libyan institutions and the economy. We will be here to support you all the way."

Cisco Shopping Linksys, WebEx Units

Cisco is reportedly close to selling off its Linksys home networking business as part of an ongoing corporate restructuring, and the sale of its WebEx collaboration platform may follow.


Citing unnamed sources said to be familiar with the situation, The Register on Wednesday reported that the moves could come as early as next week.

Industry watchers are closely scrutinizing Cisco following several quarters' worth of disappointing earnings reports and a number of recent public relations headaches.

Cisco has said it will look to eliminate $1 billion in expenses over the next fiscal year and make cuts in underperforming business units. It has also promised layoffs, in numbers most analysts expect to be between 3,000 and 5,000 employees.

Cisco already began its restructuring effort several weeks ago, shuttering its Flip camera business as part of sweeping changes to its struggling consumer unit. Cisco has also changed its much-criticized management structure of councils and boards and re-organized its worldwide field operations and services organizations.

The changes to Cisco come following a candid memo from Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers in early April, in which Chambers said Cisco had disappointed investors, confused employees and lost credibility in the marketplace.

HP Launches ‘Buy Back Offer’ For LaserJet Printers

HP launched ‘Buy Back Offer’ for its LaserJet customers in India. The program is specially designed for businesses that demand more and want to add on to their productivity, efficiency and cost-savings. 


The program allows customers to avail a cash rebate of up to Rs 20,000 on return of their old printer after buying a new LaserJet printer or scanner.  The offer is valid on a select range of LaserJet printers or scanners and the complete list is available at HP website.


“The HP LaserJet ‘Buy Back Offer’ is intended to provide growing businesses a more effective printing environment and gain competitive edge. The steps involved to avail the cash rebate are very simple; customers have to just register with us once after purchasing an eligible HP LaserJet printer or scanner,” informed Varadarajan Krishnan, General Manager, Marketing, HP, IPG.


HP’s latest range of LaserJet printers offer energy and time saving features along with auto on and auto off technology and HP Smart Install, that help the customer to manage cost and improve productivity.

The customer can choose from a wide portfolio of LaserJet printers and get the most from their technology investments. Further, HP will also facilitate removal of customer’s old printer from the customer’s office at no extra cost and recognize their efforts in recycling the old printer with a certificate.

Rare violent Saturn storm detected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft

NASA's Cassini spacecraft and a European Southern Observatory ground-based telescope tracked the growth of a giant early-spring storm in Saturn's northern hemisphere that is said to be so powerful that it stretches around the entire planet.

The rare storm has been wreaking havoc for months and shooting plumes of gas high into the planet's atmosphere.

"Nothing on Earth comes close to this powerful storm. A storm like this is rare. This is only the sixth one to be recorded since 1876, and the last was way back in 1990," stated Leigh Fletcher, the study's lead author and a Cassini team scientist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. "

This is the first major storm on Saturn observed by an orbiting spacecraft and studied at thermal infrared wavelengths, where Saturn's heat energy reveals atmospheric temperatures, winds and composition within the disturbance.

"Our new observations show that the storm had a major effect on the atmosphere, transporting energy and material over great distances, modifying the atmospheric winds, creating meandering jet streams and forming giant vortices and disrupting Saturn's slow seasonal evolution," stated  Glenn Orton, a paper co-author, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

The violence of the storm has been the strongest disturbances ever detected in Saturn's stratosphere that took researchers by surprise. It initially started as an ordinary disturbance deep in Saturn's atmosphere that gradually punched through the planet's serene cloud cover to roil the high layer known as the stratosphere.

UAE's NASA interns describe mission work at Global Space and Satellite Forum

The recently returned team of five NASA UAE interns, engineering students at Abu Dhabi universities, along with their 2010 fellow scholars participated in a panel discussion to describe their various mission work to space experts and over 300 aspiring college students during the global space and satellite forum.

Endeavour astronauts walk in space, will chat with students later

A spacewalk of more than eight hours -- the sixth-longest in history -- was successfully completed Sunday morning, the second of four spacewalks of the space shuttle Endeavour mission, NASA said.


The spacewalk, which began shortly after 2 a.m. ET, was completed at 10:12 a.m., NASA said on its website. Astronauts Andrew Feustel and Mike Fincke performed maintenance tasks on the International Space Station.

The two "completed all planned tasks," NASA said on its website, including refilling radiators with ammonia and lubricating Dextre, a two-armed space station robot that can handle delicate assembly tasks currently performed by spacewalkers.

The eight-hour, seven-minute spacewalk was Feustel's fifth and Fincke's seventh, according to NASA.

Later Sunday, Fincke and Cmdr. Mark Kelly will speak with students at Mesa Verde Elementary School in Tucson, Arizona -- the school 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green attended.

Man killed by hit-and-run driver in London

A man has been killed in a hit-and-run incident in London.

The 44-year-old was struck by the car in Enfield, north London, just before 2330 BST on Saturday.

Emergency services were called to Carterhatch Lane but the pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver of the silver car did not stop and Scotland Yard said the vehicle "fled the scene at speed", heading towards the A10.

A police spokesman said: "At this early stage, officers believe the car involved was a silver-coloured BMW and would have sustained frontal damage, lost its near-side wing mirror and possibly sustained some damage to its roof."

The victim's family have been told but his name is yet to be released.

Japan nuclear crisis debated in Tokyo summit

The leaders of Japan, China and South Korea have begun a trilateral summit in Tokyo expected to focus on Japan's nuclear crisis.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak are due to reaffirm support for Japan following March's earthquake and tsunami.

The disasters triggered a crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant where workers are still battling a radiation leak.

Earlier, the visiting leaders toured the area near the stricken plant.

They also met disaster victims at an evacuation centre in Fukushima.

Nuclear safety, co-operation in disaster preparedness and food safety are expected to top the agenda at the Tokyo summit, along with trade issues.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is also expected to raise trade regulations on Japanese food.

Correspondents say he will also pledge to share information on the nuclear accident with the international community.

China and Taiwan 'first joint dictionary'

A Taiwanese visitor to mainland China was shocked to see sliced "tu dou" on a menu. The word means peanut in Taiwan - but potato in mainland China.

A Taiwanese professor ordering coffee at a Beijing cafe was asked if he wanted a "coffee companion" - China's way of saying cream.

The stunned academic thought they wanted him to hire a hostess to keep him company. He told the waitress: "I didn't bring enough money."

Taiwan and China may share the same linguistic heritage - like Britain and the United States - but more than six decades of separation and political tensions have led to the Chinese language evolving in very different ways on each side; sometimes causing confusion, frustration or embarrassment.

Relations have been improving since 2008 and in the past year, the two former foes have been working on a first-ever joint dictionary that will encompass their different ways of writing and speaking Chinese.

Australian actor Bill Hunter dies, aged 71

One of Australia's favourite actors, Bill Hunter, has died of cancer, aged 71, in Melbourne. 

He was known for his roles in classic Australian films like Muriel's Wedding, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Strictly Ballroom.

He played an Australian officer in the World War I film Gallipoli.

His career spanned more than 50 years, and he has been called Australia's favourite "ocker", because he often played an archetypal Australian bloke.

International audiences might not necessarily know the name, but many would instantly recognise the gnarled face of Bill Hunter, one of Australia's most loved character actors.

He seemed to have a part in virtually every major Australian movie of the past 40 years - and was such a familiar presence that films without him seemed somehow incomplete.

Mexico police seize 'narco-tank' used by drug gang

Police in Mexico say they have seized a "narco-tank", a pickup truck fitted with steel armour that is thought to have been used by a drugs gang. 

The home-made armoured vehicle was found in the western state of Jalisco.

It had metal reinforcements fitted to its front, and a metal cabin covering the rear platform, presumably to protect passengers from gunfire.


The security forces often complain that the drug gangs they battle are better armed and equipped than they are.

The vehicle was found abandoned in a rural area of Jalisco, where criminal gangs have been fighting with the security forces and each other.

Jalisco was the stronghold of the late drug baron Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, a top member of the Sinaloa cartel.

Since he was killed by the security forces in July 2010, Jalisco has seen a violent battle for control of the area between members of the Sinaloa cartel and their rivals from the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion.

Early Bronze Age battle site found on German river bank

Fractured human remains found on a German river bank could provide the first compelling evidence of a major Bronze Age battle.

Archaeological excavations of the Tollense Valley in northern Germany unearthed fractured skulls, wooden clubs and horse remains dating from around 1200 BC.

The injuries to the skulls suggest face-to-face combat in a battle perhaps fought between warring tribes, say the researchers.

The paper, published in the journal Antiquity, is based primarily on an investigation begun in 2008 of the Tollense Valley site, which involved both ground excavations and surveys of the riverbed by divers.

They found remains of around 100 human bodies, of which eight had lesions to their bones. Most of the bodies, but not all, appeared to be young men.

The injuries included skull damage caused by massive blows or arrowheads, and some of the injuries appear to have been fatal.

One humerus (upper arm) bone contained an arrow head embedded more than 22mm into the bone, while a thigh bone fracture suggests a fall from a horse (horse bones were also found at the site).

The archaeologists also found remains of two wooden clubs, one the shape of a baseball bat and made of ash, the second the shape of a croquet mallet and made of sloe wood.

Lady Gaga Releases Two New Songs

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Yesterday, Lady Gaga released a fourth song from her upcoming album called "Hair" because the spyware she installed in all our computers caught us enjoying Katy Perry's "California Girls" a few too many times for her liking. So she unleashed more of her "I'm going to be who I want to be" stuff, but instead of comparing her free spirit to an airborne cow during a tornado in Kansas like we all wanted her to, she says she wants to be as unrestrained and as limitless as her hair...which you know what, whatever. Cows and hair have always been interchangeable anyway.


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And today, she released "Marry the Night" via FARMVILLE, and which means you should go ahead and allow that homeless and pregnant sow to live on your farm if you want to hear it. But if you can't be bothered with helping someone less fortunate, here's the version you can listen to without having it show up in your mini-feed and indirectly confirming everyone's suspicions, which are that your life sucks.