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Button fears for championship lead

Jenson Button fears that his world championship lead will be wiped out in only a few races unless his Brawn GP team gets to the bottom of why it is struggling at the moment. The Briton had hoped that the tight Hungaroring track and the warm weather of the weekend would help him fight back against the resurgent Red Bull Racing outfit, but tyre woes again left him on the back foot and he struggled home seventh.

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Brawn GP driver Jenson Button of Britain is seen in his race car during the practice session at the Hungaroring circuit near Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, July 25, 2009. The Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix will be held here on Sunday, July 26, 2009.

Lorenzo vows to learn from crash Donington - Jorge Lorenzo says he will learn from the mistake that ended his British Grand Prix. The Spaniard is now 25 points behind his Yamaha teammate Valentino Rossi in the championship following today’s crash at a slippery Donington Park.

“I was feeling quite comfortable in the lead,” said Lorenzo. “Unfortunately on the final corner of the ninth lap I made a small mistake, got my line wrong and touched the

white line and there was nothing I could do; it was very slippery. I was okay and wanted to carry on but my bike was too badly damaged. Of course I’m sad and disappointed but this is racing and these feelings don’t help, you just have to learn from a mistake like this and look forwards.”

Rossi also fell later in the race, but was able to rejoin and take fifth. Although Lorenzo admitted that he could have gained ground in the points race had he stayed upright, he

insisted that he does not regard himself as a title contender this year.

“Today was a great opportunity to win some points, but it was the opposite. We lost quite a lot,” he said. “For sure Valentino’s crash helped us a little bit. But I keep thinking that my goal is not to win the championship. If we are second or third in the champonship, that would be good enough for us.

If we can win, it would be unbelievable, but it’s not our goal.”

And with Mark Webber taking third place to cut into Brawn’s ever decreasing championship advantage, Button is now very worried about the state of affairs.

When asked by AUTOSPORT if his 18.5 points advantage was comfortable, Button said: “For sure, not. I have lost 15 points to Webber over the past three races, and that is massive.

“It’s five points per race. It means he will be in front of me in four races time, and there are seven races left. So it is for sure not comfortable, but I cannot do anything about it at the moment except we just need to go through the data, which is annoying as we have to wait for two weeks [because of the factory shutdown].” He added: “We have to sort it out because we are leading the championship, but it is inevitable they are going to overtake us if the Brawns keep going like they are. It is like wearing the

yellow jersey [in the Tour de France], knowing that when you get to the mountains you are going to be useless and overtaken.

“It is nice leading the championship, but it won’t be the case in the next three or four races if we have the performances like we have had in the last few. Valencia I say is going to be hot, but then here we thought it would be in the 30s. But if you look at the weather forecast, it has been 34-35C all week, and the weekend was 2425C and then it is going back up again from Monday. So, maybe someone is trying to make the racing more interesting this year - they don’t want us walking away with it. So they are doing their job very well.”

Button says his team has no answers at the moment as to why its early season dominance has come to a halt – but he has faith that the team will come up with the answers he needs to keep his title challenge on course.

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Honduran military repositions as Zelaya seeks sanctions OCOTAL - The head of the Honduran military has promised not to use deadly force against supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya as the deposed leader spent a third day across the border in Nicaragua plotting his return.

“We will not fire on our people,” the armed forces commander, General Romeo Vasquez, told Sunday Honduran broadcaster Radio Globo, one of the few media out-

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WASHINGTON - Two astronauts will venture into open space again Monday on a fifth and final spacewalk of the shuttle Endeavour’s mission to complete the International Space Station.

Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn spent the final hours leading up to their task preparing their spacesuits and tools and reviewing procedures, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials said.

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lets critical of the interim government headed by Robert Micheletti.

Vasquez was a key figure in the June 28 ouster of Zelaya and has defended the expulsion, but has

said he was only enforcing a Supreme Court ruling.

“The armed forces are not the ones responsible for this internal division,” Vasquez said on the ra-

dio show, during which he also talked with Zelaya’s wife Xiomara Castro, who remained in Honduras and has been prevented from reaching the border.

Vasquez’s comments were another sign that the Honduran military may be seeking to retreat from the turmoil created by Zelaya’s sudden ouster.

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Fiat Yamaha Team’s Spanish MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo slides on the track after falling from his machine near Goddards during the MotoGP Grand Prix at the British Motorcycle Grand Prix at the Donington Circuit, Donington, England, Sunday, July 26, 2009.

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Supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya try to overturn a car brought by a man whom they believed to be an undercover police agent during funeral services for Pedro Magdiel Munoz in El Durazno, Honduras, Sunday, July 26, 2009. The body of Munoz was found near where protests were taking place Saturday, prompting Zelaya supporters to accuse security forces of killing him. Police officials, however, deny that claim.

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The final spacewalk is expected to run about six and a half hours.

During their fourth walk on Friday, Marshburn and Cassidy installed new batteries on one of the oldest of the four solar arrays that power the space station 350 kilometers (215 miles) above Earth.

The six newly fitted batteries “function as expected,” the US space agency said, noting that the old batteries were stored on a cargo carrier that will be placed in Endeavour’s cargo barrier later in the day.

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In this photo provided by NASA, Astronauts Tom Marshburn (left) and Christopher Cassidy, mission specialists for STS-127, share duties on the fourth spacewalk of Endeavour’s current mission and its crew’s joint activities with the space station.

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Sarkozy to leave hospital after jogging collapse Agence France-Presse

PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy was due to leave hospital on Monday after collapsing while jogging, as the French leader’s aides scrambled to defend his image as a man of action.

Ma Ying-jeou TAIPEI - Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou is elected chairman of the ruling Nationalist Party, a position that will shore up his control over the pace of reconciliation and economic cooperation with rival China.

Opposition leader YANGON, Myanmar - The trial of Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi enters its final phase, with the prosecution scheduled to deliver its closing arguments, a government official says.

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The 54-year-old was whisked to hospital by helicopter Sunday after he fainted while jogging in the wooded parkland around the Versailles Palace near his weekend retreat outside Paris.

Sarkozy’s supermodel wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy raced to his side on a police motorbike, a witness said, but doctors pronounced his illness a minor nervous complaint brought on by effort and predicted a full recovery.

He was expected to leave the Val de Grace military hospital later Monday.

Around 30 journalists were gathered at metal barricades outside the building, sharpshooters were posted on the roof and government cars with tinted windows were coming and going regularly.

In the meantime, Sarkozy’s supporters were furiously working the media to protect his reputation as a dynamic leader.

“The news from the doctors is good. He’ll be out today,” promised Patrick Devedjian, the minister charged with overseeing Sarkozy’s plan to revive the failing French economy, on RTL radio.

“It’s not in his nature to hold himself back. He puts it like this: ‘Sometimes people criticise me, saying I do too much. Me, I think I don’t do enough’,” he added.

“He takes a lot onto himself. He’s hyperactive, everyone can see that.”

Officials said Sunday that Sarkozy had suffered a vasvagal syncope — a nerve condition in which exhaustion and dehydration can lead to a loss of blood pressure — as he ran under a blazing summer sun.

The condition is not considered dangerous and most patients make a full recovery, and the president’s entourage were keen to point out that he

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, escorted by his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, leaves the Val-de-Grace military hospital, in Paris Monday, July 27, 2009. the risk would become political.”

And Jean-Claude Kiefer of Dernieres Nouvelles d’Alsace said the incident showed the risks of concentrating so much power in the hands of one leader.

“The jog of Sunday July 26 in Versailles park should not be without consequences,” he urged, calling for France to re-examine its constitution.

Sarkozy’s office promised an official update on the president’s health when he leaves hospital later Monday.

Protest in Philippines ahead of Arroyo speech Agence France-Presse

KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian immigration official is charged with selling an illegal immigrant from Myanmar to human traffickers at the country’s border with Thailand, his lawyer says.

never lost consciousness despite 45 minutes of hard physical exercise.

“The doctors are taking about an illness brought on by excess effort,” a source in Sarkozy’s office told AFP. But, while the president is likely to make a full physical recovery and quickly resume his gruelling schedule, there may be more lasting damage to his carefully crafted image as a young, thrusting leader.

Former president Francois Mitterrand left office aged 78 and concealed a case of prostrate cancer for more than a decade. Sarkozy’s predecessor Jacques Chirac left office aged 76 and once spent a week in hospital.

By contrast to his often frail seeming forebears, Sarkozy has played up his vigour, and is regularly photographed jogging and cycling in his trademark NYPD T-shirt, sometimes with famous sportsmen.

While running for office he promised to make his annual health checkups public, although in fact he only did so once and was last year caught out for having concealed minor throat surgery from the public.

So Sunday’s incident in the woods may have political consequences.

Writing in the regional newspaper Charente Libre, Dominique Garraud said voters have no way of knowing if this was Sarkozy’s first medical problem.

“No-one can know for sure, as long as transparency about the president’s health remains a taboo,” he argued.

Patrice Chabanet of the Journal de la HauteMarne urged the president to ease up: “Nicolas Sarkozy can no longer allow himself to push his limits, and to expose himself to a new accident. Then

MANILA - Hundreds of protesters marched on the Philippines Congress Monday as President Gloria Arroyo prepared to defend her record in her last state of the nation address before elections next year.

Arroyo, who came to power in 2001 following the ouster of Joseph Estrada, was expected to use the speech to outline her accomplishments during her tumultuous tenure, which has been marked by scandal and failed coup attempts.

Activists waving red flags and

anti-Arroyo banners began their march before dawn to the congress building, as riot police erected barbed wire barricades and blocked access roads with trucks and shipping containers.

Thousands of riot police, armed with shields and truncheons, were ferried into the capital Manila by trucks and bomb-sniffing dogs checked the building for explosives ahead of Arroyo’s speech, due to begin at 0700 GMT. Police have said they expect about 25,000 protesters to convene at the Congress. Schools in the capital were shut down.

Critics charge Arroyo, whose term expires next year, is seeking to amend the constitution so that she can remain in power. They have also accused her of cheating to win the 2004 presidential election.

The Philippines leader, plagued by a series of corruption allegations against her and his political allies, has survived several impeachment attempts.

She has surrounded herself with dozens of retired police and military generals who occupy senior government posts.

In her first state of the nation ad-

dress, Arroyo outlined her vision for the Philippines based on employment, education, housing and food security for all Filipinos.

In subsequent addresses, she promised to win the fight against poverty, eradicate corruption and predicted the Philippines will join the ranks of the world’s rich countries within 20 years.

But her government has produced very little to back up those promises, with poverty on the rise in the country of 92 million people and the economy propped up by billions of dollars sent home

by Filipino workers overseas.

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Two Goals from Milito, Inter Defeataed Milan Associated Press Writer

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – They were 3,800 miles from foggy San Siro, and that’s not all that was different for Inter Milan and AC Milan when they met outside of Italy for just the third time in 101 years. “Certainly the focus will be on league play,” Inter striker Diego Milito said Sunday after leading the Italian League champions to a 2-0 victory over AC Milan in an exhibition known as the World Football Challenge. “But I want to help the team do well, and to honor the shirt that wearing every time I put it on.”

The crowd of 42,531 leaned toward AC Milan, and the fans were quieted in the fourth minute when Milito chased the ball down to the left of the goal and left-footed it off goalkeeper Zeljko Kalac and inside the near post. He gave Inter a 2-0 lead in the 75th minute on a 2-on-1 break with Dejan Stankovic, who passed to Milito for a shot that bounced off and over the keeper into the net.

The clubs last played outside of Italy when they met at Yankee Stadium in 1969; before that, it was a match in Chiasso, Switzerland, in 1908.

“For me, there’s no such thing as a friendly game,” said defender Oguchi Onyewu, the first American ever to play for Milan. “I don’t go out there hoping to lose, or expecting to lose. I go out there trying to give it my all.”

Milan and Chelsea sold out the 71,000-seat home stadium of the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens on Friday night. But Sunday’s match on a warm New England afternoon was played with the upper deck half-closed and the lower bowl empty at one end because the seats were obstructed by the enormous stage for Tuesday night’s AC/DC concert. (Also obstructed was the press box, forcing the media to be relocated into luxury suites.)

But Sunday’s crowd wasn’t concerned

about the headbanging of AC/DC as much as the head-passing of AC Milan. And the home stadium of NFL genius Bill Belichick, who guided the New England Patriots to an 18-0 record before losing the 2008 Super Bowl, proved to be a fitting host for Inter coach Jose Mourinho, the self-proclaimed “Special One” who guided Inter to its fourth straight Italian Serie A title after losing in the first knockout round of the Champions League.

Meanwhile Diego Milito feels proud of his two goals. “A striker always likes scoring, even if it’s in a friendly match,” said the Argentine, “but today’s was still a derby and from my celebration you could see how happy I was to have given my contribution on the pitch. It’s easy to play in this Inter. It’s the merit of the group, of the great champions who have given us newcomers a very warm welcome and have made us feel important since day one.”

In Inter’s next matches Milito could have a new team-mate who shares his ‘habit’ of scoring. “Eto’o is a great striker who has lived many experiences,” said Diego. “He is very fast and he will make a great contribution to the team. As for me, I will always try to adapt to my strike partner when I’m on the pitch.”

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Inter Milan’s Paolo Orlandoni (22) celebrates his goal in front of AC Milan goalie Zeljko Kalacin, left, and Thiago Silva in the first half of a World Football Challenge soccer match, Sunday, July 26, 2009, in Foxborough, Mass.

I’m here to win the Champions Zlantan wanted to leave, says Moratti Legaue, says Eto’o Agence France - Presse

ROME - Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti has explained his reason for selling Zlatan Ibrahimovic, claiming the Swede wanted to join Barcelona. Ibrahimovic has been Inter’s best player since joining the club in 2006 and many fans were dismayed that the Italian champions would let the top goalscorer in last season’s Serie A leave the club.

But in return Inter have signed Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o, brought Alexander Hleb in on loan and scooped 50 million euros from Barca.

And Moratti insists that it was Ibrahimovic’s own wish to go. “Several times over the last few months he expressed his desire to change clubs,” he told Monday’s Gazzetta dello Sport.

“He wasn’t forced, he had said that he saw his career developping elsewhere. We’re talking about someone rather indifferent on a sentimental level, a professional.” Last week Inter coach Jose Mourinho described this deal as the transfer of the summer, claiming that Eto’o is as good as Ibrahimovic and that the Italians had done well to

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ROME - Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o arrived in Milan on Monday ahead of his Inter Milan medical and stated he wants to win the Champions League. Eto’o has twice already been on a Champions League winning team with Barcelona, scoring against Arsenal in the 2006 final in a 2-1 victory and again against Manchester United in May in a 2-0 success.

“I’m very happy to be here at Inter. I’ve come here to work hard and win the Champions League,” said Eto’o. The 28-year-old will undergo a medical at Inter before putting his name to a fiveyear deal with the Italian champions.

He is part of a swap deal that will see Sweden forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic head to Catalonia while Inter will also pocket 50 million euros and take Belarus winger Alexander Hleb on loan for a year.

Eto’o said few words to the hoards of waiting press and photographers at Milan’s Linate airport upon his arrival but he did congratulate his new team-mates on having beaten city rivals AC Milan 2-0 in a friendly in the United States on Sunday.

He also had a word of thanks for Inter president Massimo Moratti: “He has a big heart,” said Eto’o. Eto’o arrived with his agent Jose Maria Mesalles, who last week agreed personal terms with Inter.

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Barcelona striker Samuel Eto’o of Cameroon waves as he arrives at Linate airport in Milan, Italy, Monday, July 27, 2009. Eto’o arrived in Milan for a medical that would complete a deal that would send the striker to Italian champions Inter Milan.

Inter and Barca have also agreed terms but the deal will only go through once Ibrahimovic completes his move, which should happen early this week.

bank so much money in the swap.

And Moratti claimed that he too was pleased with the deal. “For Inter this is a positive affair, also from an economic perspective,” he said. You have to bear in mind that Eto’o’s value as a player is not that of his low transfer value.” Eto’o had only one year left on his Barca contract and the Catalans openly wanted rid of him, thus reducing greatly his market value.

Ibrahimovic, meanwhile, was tied into a longterm deal at Inter, who did not want to sell him.

Having won four Serie A titles in a row, Inter are under pressure this season to produce the goods in Europe. In the last three seasons they have crashed out in the first knock-out round and the Champions League has become something of an albatros around the club’s collective neck.

Inter don’t seem capable of performing in Europe as they do at home and Moratti is aware of not allowing the quest for European glory to become a burden. “I don’t want the Champions League to become an obsession. The championship is our primary goal and then we can tackle Europe with much courage,” he said.

Barcelona’s new signing Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Sweden gestures during his arrival at the club’s office in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, July 26, 2009.

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Ginepri crowns comeback with Indianapolis title

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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana - Robby Ginepri, who was laid low by a burst appendix earlier this year, won his second Indianapolis title on Sunday with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over third seeded compatriot Sam Querrey.

“I haven’t been to final in four years (at Indy). “You question if you can play at this level any more, it creeps into back of mind. But this is a true confidence boost for the summer. I’ll go to LA from Monday very excited.

I feel fit and ready to fight some more. My ranking will move up and I can get into more tournaments, maybe even a Masters series in Asia and Europe this autumn.”

The title was Ginepri’s third after Indy 2005 and Newport 2003.

He broke serve twice in a 26-minute opening set, then secured the upset by coming back from 40-0 down in the 11th game of the second.

“When I won here in 2005 I was about the same ranking,” said Ginepri. “But this one has to be more special as I really never expected it I got the job done. I really had no expectations but I had no pressure either. It’s funny how things work out.”

Querrey said admitted he was nervous and his usually reliable big serve let him down. “I didn’t have a rhythm on serve today, it was not there,” he said. “He’s such good returner, he puts a lot of pressure on you. Robby played well and had very few unforced errors.”

TAIPEI - Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou on Monday received a congratulatory message from his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao after being elected leader of the island’s ruling Kuomintang, party officials said.

Outgoing KMT chairman Wu Poh-hsiung said party officials would reveal the contents of the brief message from Hu later in the day.

Analysts say Ma’s election as party leader on Sunday could pave the way for a first meeting between the presidents of Taiwan and China.

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Gov. Sean Parnell, second left goes to hug his wife Sandy, right, holding the Bible after he was sworn in as governor by Alaska Supreme Court Justice Daniel Winfee, left, during a ceremony in Fairbanks, Alaska Sunday, July 26, 2009, where Gov. Sarah Palin stepped down and handed over power to Parnell. Former Gov. Sarah Palin, center back, watches with her daughter Piper, left, back, and husband Todd, right back.

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Sam Querrey, of the United States, returns a shot against countryman Robby Ginepri in the finals of the Indianapolis Tennis Championships in Indianapolis, Sunday, July 26, 2009. Ginepri won 6-2, 6-4.

Rooney thirsty for goals as United return to Europe Agence France - Prese

MANCHESTER - Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney says he is thirsty for goals in the Premier League season starting on August 15, as the United squad prepare in Germany for the pre-season Audi Cup. The Reds’ striker is relishing being even more in the spotlight now his attack partner Cristiano Ronaldo has left for Real Nadrid and aims to increase his goal scoring rate above the 20 he bagged in the league last season: “I have always said I would like to score more goals than the previous season so that is what I am aiming for again this time,” he told www.manutd.com as the team returned to Europe after their Asian tour. If I can do that I will be really happy,” said the 23-year-old who was among the scorers in an eight-goal romp

over China’s Hanzhou Greentown on Sunday.

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson says he has “strong options” up front going into the new Premier League season.

New signing Michael Owen netted a brace in the clash against Hangzhou to add to two goals in Malaysia. Ferguson, chasing a record fourth consecutive Premier League crown, paired Owen and Dimitar Berbatov from the start for the first time in China and both found the net in the opening period.

“We didn’t use Macheda tonight but I think it gives us strong options,” he said. “I think that Macheda’s development obviously as we saw the other night is good for a 17year-old boy and he’s got the physical attributes to go with it.” With the experience of Berbatov and Owen, and the talent of Rooney, “I think we’re not too bad,” Ferguson said.

Manchester United’s Michael Owen, right, and Wayne Rooney, left, run with their teammates during a soccer training session in Hangzhou, China, Saturday, July 25, 2009.

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Roberts wins second Senior British Open Agence France - Presse

LONDON - America’s Loren Roberts won his second Senior British Open on Sunday when he edged Mark McNulty and Fred Funk in a play-off at Sunningdale. The three had finished the four rounds locked on 12 under par before Funk, the halfway leader, was eliminated at the first extra hole when he could only make par while Roberts and McNulty both made birdies.

Roberts and McNulty couldn’t be separated at the second hole. At the third extra hole, McNulty fired his tee shot into the bushes and had to take a penalty for an unplayable lie. With Roberts down the middle McNulty was struggling and played a five iron for his third shot which ran over the back of the green.

Roberts found the green, 20 feet to the right of the flag and with McNulty unable to hole his long par putt, Roberts had two putts to win. The American rolled the putt up to a few inches to claim the title for the second time after his win in 2006.

“When I won back in ’06 it was probably the biggest thrill of my life,” said Roberts.

“Then to come here, to a golf course I’ve never seen before, absolutely fell in love with this golf course. To be able to pull it out on the back nine is the culmination of a lot of hard work.” Earlier McNulty’s round of 64 had given him the clubhouse lead.

His inward 31 included a hat-trick of birdies from the 13th but it could have been even better - down the closing straight McNulty had birdie putts of less than 10 feet on 17 and 18 and both missed the hole by the smallest of fractions. “I really thought I hit good putts,

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Loren Roberts of the US tees off on the first play off hole after the final round of the Senior British Open Championship at the Sunningdale golf course, in Sunningdale, England, Sunday, July 26, 2009. both of them,” he said. “The last one I thought was going to go in and the last one slowed down and seemed to start turning. Why, I don’t know.

“I gave it all I had, and just one bad shot.

That’s what happens.” American Funk, who had set record low 18 and 36-hole scores for the event, raced out the blocks to turn in 32, but the 53-year-old parred all his holes on the back nine. It just wasn’t enough. It’s disappointing because I played good,” said Funk.

Overnight leader Greg Norman collapsed to a one-over 71 and fell out of contention to a tie for sixth. Tom Watson continued his fine form with a three-under-par 67 to finish seven under overall, enough for a share of eighth place.

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The 62-minute win repeated the triumph which Ginepri enjoyed four years ago and was the third title of his career. Ginepri, who missed two months of the season and lost nearly 15 kilograms in weight following appendix surgery, had not reached a semi-final before this week since Las Vegas in March, 2008.

Querrey has now lost in finals in his last two events after going down a fortnight ago on grass in Newport to Rajeev Ram. Ginepri out-aced the usually bighitting Querrey, firing four aces and 13 winners while Querrey dropped nine costly double faults.

“This is a special place for me,” said Ginepri after the sixth all-American Indy final in two decades since the event switched to hardcourt. “I’ve not been in a final for a long time and to win again here is great.” After playing only 21 matches this season, he was unsure of his chances of getting back into the top 20 where he stood in 2005 after winning Indy for the first time.

“Without results, you start questioning your game,” he said.

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Palin’s future mysterious as Alaska governor says goodbye Agence France-Presse

ANCHORAGE - With a challenge to the media and Washington, and a list of her achievements for the state, Sarah Palin has stepped down as Alaska governor, but gave few clues about where she is headed.

“It is because I love Alaska this much, sir, that I feel it is my duty to avoid the unproductive, typical politics-as-usual lame duck session in one’s last year in office,” said Palin, who was the state’s youngest governor and first female governor.

“With this decision now I will be able to fight even harder for you, for what is right and for truth. And I have never felt you need a title to do all that,” Palin told a cheering crowd at a state picnic.

But her farewell address in Fairbanks, Alaska, Sunday, less than a month after she abruptly announced her resignation on July 3, provided little insight into her plans upon leaving office.

In the weeks since her shock announcement, she has citing a variety of reasons for the decision, including what she said were financial constraints caused by a slew of lawsuits and ethics complaints she has fought.

The former vice presidential candidate, who shot to national and international prominence after Senator John McCain picked her as his running mate last year, is expected to write a book.

Palin, 45, has also said she will travel the country campaigning for candidates who share her political ideology.

Her speech on Sunday included a

recap of her time as governor and struck many of her customary notes, including praise for her fellow Alaskans and the military.

She also issued challenges to the media, who she told to “quit making things up,” and to those she said are “hellbent, maybe, on tearing down our nation.”

To Alaskans, she issued a warning: “Stiffen your spine to do what is right for Alaska when the pressure mounts.”

“We can resist enslavement to big central government that crushes hope and opportunity. Be wary of accepting government largesse... Melting into Washington’s powerful caretaking arms will just suck incentive to work hard and chart our own course right out of us.”

But Palin’s own course remains the biggest unanswered question. She has been touted as a possible adversary for President Barack Obama in 2012, but she has also been plagued by ethics probes, legal bills, and doubts about her ability to govern.

And even her husband dodged the question when he was asked over the weekend about her plans for the future.

“We’ll play it by ear,” said Todd Palin told Politico, an Internet newspaper, in a brief interview. “We’ll take a little breather and go from there.”

Palin says she has run up more than half a million dollars in legal fees stemming from the two dozen ethics complaints against her, which she calls “political absurdity.”

Her supporters set up a fund to help cover the legal costs, but an independent investigator’s preliminary report found the fund itself may have constituted a state ethics law violation, according to Alaska news reports.

Her popularity, while unquestioned among a portion of Republican voters, is less assured in the larger electorate, with 53 percent of Americans saying they have an unfavorable view of Palin, in a recent poll.

Only 40 percent see her in positive terms — her lowest approval rating since McCain tapped her as his running mate, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Friday.

Additionally, 57 percent of poll respondents said she does not understand complex issues, with just 37 percent saying she does.

And despite her often tough rhetoric, 54 percent told the pollsters the outgoing Alaska governor was not a strong leader, while only 40 percent said that she was.

Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell was sworn in as governor at Palin’s departure ceremony.

est-level contact since the two sides split in 1949 after a civil war.

Ma previously headed the party between July 2005 and February 2007, when he resigned after being indicted for allegedly misusing his expense funds as mayor of Taipei. He was cleared of the charges before taking office last year.

Ties with China have improved dramatically since Ma came to power, with the launch of regular direct flights and the development of closer trade links.

Beijing still regards Taiwan as part of its territory awaiting reunification by force if necessary although the island has governed itself since 1949.

‘Hezbollah’ plotters face trial in Egypt security court Agence France-Presse

CAIRO - Egypt has decided on a security court trial for 26 men accused of plotting attacks on tourist resorts and on ships in the Suez Canal on behalf of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the public prosecutor said on Sunday.

Charges include conspiracy to murder, spying for a foreign organisation with the intent of conducting terrorist attacks and weapons possession, prosecutor Abdel Magid Mahmud said in a statement.

State security courts were set up under Egypt’s emergency laws and have been in place since 1981 and their verdicts are final. The date of the trial has yet to be set.

Four of the accused men are on the run, including Lebanese alleged mastermind Mohammed Qubyan who is believed to have left Egypt. The others are hiding in the Sinai Peninsula’s mountains, a security official said.

The prosecution says the men have confessed to buying rifles, explosives and rocket propelled grenades and to storing bags and belts filled with powerful plastic explosives.

They also confessed to building tunnels to Gaza, monitoring tourist resorts in the Sinai and setting up front businesses, state news agency MENA reported.

The prosecutor said in April that 49 men were suspected of plotting attacks against Sinai tourist resorts and ships in the Suez Canal on the orders of the militant Shiite group Hezbollah.

The suspects include two Lebanese alleged Hezbollah ringleaders, five Palestinians, a Sudanese man and Egyptians.

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah admitted in April that one of the captured men,

Mohammed Yusef Mansur, identified as Sami Shihab, was a Hezbollah agent tasked with smuggling weapons to militants in Gaza.

Defence lawyer Montasser elZayyat complained that the defendants will be unable to appeal the verdicts.

“They have no right to appeal.

Even if they are found innocent the President of Egypt can still overrule the court’s decision,” Zayyat told AFP. Zayyat said the defendants had been tortured in detention and insisted that any confessions used as evidence in court should be dismissed.

Security officials said the defendants were examined by a doctor who found no evidence that they had been physically abused. Rights groups say torture is routine in Egypt.

Hezbollah, a formidable guerrila group and political party formed after Israel occupied Lebanon in 1982, has limited its attacks in the Middle East to Israel and Lebanon, from which Israel withdrew in 2000.

It fought a month-long war with Israel in 2006 that killed 1,200 Lebanese and more than 160 Israelis.

The arrests led to a war of words between Sunni Egypt and Hezbollah’s Shiite Iranian backers, with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit accusing Iran of using Hezbollah to gain a foothold in Egypt.

The alleged plot was one of three that Egyptian security services say they have disrupted since February, when a pipe bomb left under a concrete bench in a Cairo bazaar killed a French tourist.

Security officials said they have arrested members of an Al-Qaeda cell that carried out that attack.

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More than 300,000 Israeli settlers in West Bank: report Agence France-Presse

JERUSALEM - The number of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank now stands at more than 300,000 people, according to government figures published by the Haaretz newspaper on Monday.

As of June 30, there were 304,569 settlers living in the Palestinian territory, an increase of 2.3 percent since the start of the year, it said.

The issue of settlements is one of the main stumbling blocks in the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

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TOKYO - Opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama, tipped to become prime minister in elections next month, said Monday Japan was “at a historic turning point” as he outlined his party’s plans to remake the nation.

“We are at a historic turning point, not only in the sense that we will end the long-running LDP (Liberal Democratic Party) government,” said Hatoyama.

A government change would also “make up for two lost decades” economically and end the rising in-

fluence of state bureaucrats that started when Japan opened its doors to the outside world in the late 19th century, he said.

“We intend to make the people the main players in politics,” added the head of the biggest opposition group, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which has been leading in opinion polls ahead of the August 30 lower house election.

The business-friendly LDP, led by unpopular Prime Minister Taro Aso, has governed Japan continuously since the conservative party’s foundation in 1955, except for one 10-month stretch in the early 1990s.

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Yukio Hatoyama.

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British actress Joanna Lumley, left, presents a gift to Nepal’s Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, at his office in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, July, 27, 2009. Lumley arrived Sunday on her first visit to the Himalayan nation which is home to the Gurkha soldiers who have for centuries fought for the British army.

Nepal PM thanks British actress for Gurkha campaign Agence France-Presse

KATHMANDU - Nepal’s prime minister on Monday thanked Joanna Lumley for bringing “justice” to Gurkha soldiers who served in the British army, as the glamorous actress was feted on her visit to the country.

Madhav Kumar Nepal said all Nepalese people recognised the achievements of the 63-year-old star, who spearheaded a successful campaign for Gurkha veterans and their families to be allowed to settle in Britain.

“I think the Gurkhas have got justice, whether complete or just to some extent I cannot see,” he told journalists after meeting Lumley, famous for her role in the television show “Absolutely Fabulous”.

“We are all rejoicing over what she has achieved.”

Lumley, who arrived in Nepal to a rapturous welcome on Sunday, presented the prime minister with a scarf from Scotland, saying she had heard that the winters were cold in Nepal.

“We are just so proud to be here and to have it recognised at such a high level,” she told journalists after the meeting.

“It’s just such a tremendous privilege to be here today consoli-

dating the bond (between Britain and Nepal).”

Later Monday, Lumley will meet the country’s president and address a rally at Kathmandu City Hall before laying a wreath at a Gurkha memorial inside the British embassy here.

The blonde actress has been hailed as a heroine by the Nepalese former fighters, who are expected to turn out in their thousands to greet her as she travels around the country this week.

Crowds of supporters waited hours at Kathmandu airport on Sunday, braving the monsoon rain and carrying banners that read “Welcome Joanna, daughter of Nepal” and “Gurkha heroes welcome our British heroes”.

Organisers of her trip said some Gurkha veterans living in remote areas have already started walking to the three towns she is set to visit while in Nepal, where many people live in rural villages with no road access.

She is accompanied by her family and by British local government representative Peter Carroll, who in 2007 persuaded her to join the “Gurkha Justice” campaign that he started.

She has said that her father, a British major in the 6th Gurkha Rifles during World War II, would have been “overwhelmed with shame and fury” at Britain’s treatment of Gurkha veterans.

The British government announced in May that all Gurkha veterans who had served at least four years in the army could apply for residency after a climbdown in the face of Lumley’s campaign.

Previously, only those who retired after 1997 had been eligible to apply. The Indian-born actress, renowned as the cocaine-snorting fashionista Patsy in the hit comedy “Absolutely Fabulous”, had become a rallying voice for the men she called the “bravest of the brave”.

The Gurkhas have been part of the British army for almost 200 years and more than 45,000 have died in British uniform. Around 3,500 currently serve in the British army, including in Afghanistan.

Opposition set to break Iraqi Kurd stranglehold Agence France-Presse

ARBIL - Iraqi authorities are set on Monday to release preliminary results from weekend elections in the automomous Kurdish region after a new opposition party claimed a major breakthrough.

The Goran (Change) list said it had won more than a quarter of seats in the regional Kurdish parliament

in Saturday’s legislative election, raising the prospect of a strong opposition for the first time.

The vote was held at a key time in Iraq’s transition as regional leaders are locked in a bitter dispute with Baghdad over land and oil, while local voters also voiced their increasing concerned about corruption.

Incumbent regional president Massud Barzani won 70 percent of the

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dent Barack Obama, who took office in January, has repeatedly pressed Israel to halt all settlement activity as part of its efforts to revive the stalled peace process.

Hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far refused to heed the calls, sending tensions between the two allies rising to levels unseen in years.

The new figures were published amid a US diplomatic push that will see three senior officials — Defence Secretary Robert Gates, Middle East envoy George Mitchell and National Security Advisor James Jones — hold talks in Israel this week.

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vote in a simultaneous presidential poll pitting him against four other candidates, presidential cabinet chief Fuad Hussein said on Sunday.

A joint list uniting Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani won 60 percent of ballots cast in the parliamentary vote, Hussein said.

The two parties have dominated

Iraqi Kurdish politics for half a century, first as rebels and then as the region’s effective rulers in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf war over Saddam Hussein’s invasion of neighbouring Kuwait.

The results would give the KDPPUK list around 55 seats in the 111seat parliament, down from 78 seats in the outgoing assembly elected in 2005.

A senior Goran official told AFP

that his party would win 28 seats, making it the first credible opposition to the longstanding KDP-PUK dominance in the rugged mountainous north of Iraq.

Nearly 80 percent of the region’s 2.5 million voters turned out on Saturday for what election officials trumpeted as a transparent poll. Final results are not due for several days, as ballots must be transported to Baghdad for an official count.

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The South Pacific pounding the coastline of Funafuti Atoll. Developed countries need to act urgently to help vulnerable Pacific island nations cope with climate change, international aid group Oxfam said

Pacific needs help to combat climate change: Oxfam Agence France - Presse

WELLINGTON – Developed countries need to act urgently to help vulnerable Pacific island nations cope with climate change, international aid group Oxfam said Monday. By the year 2050, about 75 million people could be forced to leave their homes due to climate change in the Asia-Pacific region, the Oxfam report said.

“Climate change has the potential to affect almost every issue linked to poverty and development in the Pacific,” said Oxfam New Zealand executive director Barry Coates. Without immediate action 50 years of development gains in poor countries will be permanently lost,” he said.

Coral atolls are particularly vulnerable, including countries such as Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, which consist solely of atolls that often rise only two to three metres (six to nine feet) above sea level. Climate change is expected to worsen storm surges, cyclones and

high tides. “Scientists have also projected an increase in diseases such as malaria and dengue fever, together with significant soil and coastal erosion as a result of climate change,” Oxfam said.

Unless wealthy, developed countries like Australia and New Zealand take urgent action to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, some island nations in the Pacific could become uninhabitable, Oxfam said. Oxfam estimated that around 150 billion US dollars would be needed every year to fund adaptation and emissions reductions in devel-

oping countries on top of existing aid.

Wealthy, polluting countries must reduce their emissions by at least 40 percent by 2020, and at least 95 percent by 2050 to prevent potentially catastrophic climate change, Oxfam said. The report also said Australia and New Zealand had to be prepared to take refugees from Pacific islands.

Australia, New Zealand and other developed countries are expected to face renewed calls for more help over climate change from island countries when the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum meets in Cairns, Australia next week.

LONDON – Genetically modified crops are being grown in Britain for the first time in 12 months after controversial trials were resumed without alerting the public, a newspaper reported Monday.

Cultivation of a field of potatoes designed to be resistant to pests was abandoned more than a year ago when environmental protesters ripped up the crop, the Daily Telegraph said.

But, without alerting the public, the project near Tadcaster in northern England has been restarted, prompting warnings from green groups that local farms and residents could be put at risk, the newspaper said. One group accused the government of trying to “slip it under the radar.” The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the potatoes would be grown in a safe environment, where there is no risk of contamination. They would not be used for human or animal

consumption, it said.

The trial, run by Leeds University, is looking at potatoes that are resistant to a parasite worm that costs British farmers millions of pounds a year in lost and damaged crops. Genetically-modified crops have a gene, or genes, inserted into them in the lab so that they acquire traits that are useful to farmers.

They are widely grown in North America, South America and China.

But in Europe they have run into fierce resistance, led by green groups who say the crops carry risks through cross-pollination, potentially creating “super-weeds” that are impervious to herbicides.

Only a handful of genetically modified crops have been approved for cultivation in the European Union, but of them only MON810, approved in 1998, is so far being grown. France this month rejected a report by the European Union’s food safety watchdog that said a controversial strain of geneticallymodified corn was safe.

Photo illustration of potatoes.

Genetically modified crops are being grown in Britain for the first time in 12 months after controversial trials were resumed without alerting the public, a newspaper reported Monday.

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What Not to Wear to Work Many professional women are guilty of multiple fashion faux pas without realizing it, and their lack of judgment can sometimes lead to being passed over for a job or promotion. Dressing for success means business, not pleasure. Read on for our must-avoids.

Too much cleavage: Showing too much cleavage at work is the No. 1 fashion faux pas on our list. Studies show that women who dress in sexy attire in a professional environment are more often passed over for promotions than women who dress

more conservatively. Bottom line: If you want to get ahead, ditch the lowcut top.

Too-short skirt: Wearing a micromini may send the message that you’re trying to compensate for skills you lack in other areas. Also, the knee is a visual anchor, says Barbara Pachter, an etiquette expert.

People’s attention will be drawn downward when they approach you, instead of toward your face where it should be. Save your minis for after office hours and, while it doesn’t need to be knee length, put on a skirt

that you can sit down in without showing too much thigh.

See-through clothes: Summer materials such as organza and liquid jersey look and feel cool and pretty, but in the light of a staff meeting, they can reveal the outlines of your legs — and much more. The best solution is to check out your ensemble in a bright, naturally lit room before leaving for work. Always wear transparent blouses over camis or under jackets; transparent dresses and skirts should be layered over a slip or leggings. Ginger Burr

of Total Image Consultants notes that buying clothes with lining — especially white pants and skirts — is always a safe choice.

Over-accessorizing: A rule of thumb when it comes to accessories in the workplace: Less is more. Costume jewelry, when worn in bulk, tends to look tacky. The real thing, on the other hand, can come off as gaudy. A boardroom-ready look includes one show stopper plus subtle accessories. That means if you’re going to put on a chunky beaded necklace, stick to minimal earrings

and arm candy.

Bringing the beach into the office: Sundresses, spaghetti straps, flip-flops. Nothing makes you look less professional than coming to the office like you’re dressed for the beach. Having a cover-up like a pashmina, neutral blazer or cardigan on hand will always make an outfit look more professional. Truth be told, however, these summer staples are best avoided at the office. Trade your tank top for a silk shell and Havaianas for backless mules.

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Denzel Washington Delighted With ‘The Taking Of Pelham 123’ Weight Gain

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Denzel Washington was delighted when movie bosses ordered him to fatten up for his latest movie role - because he thoroughly enjoyed stuffing his face with junk food.

The actor appears in The Taking of Pelham 123, alongside John Travolta, playing an overweight character - and the slim star had to gain a staggering 40 pounds. He says, “Getting there was such fun.

Milkshakes, hamburgers... middle ofthe night a little Haagen Daz. Anything I wanted just eat, eat, eat.”

The American Gangster star returned to his toned physique after shooting the film, but admits his wife quite enjoyed his fuller figure. He says, “She was OK with it, I think every wife wants their husband to be plump and fatten them up. She doesn’t eat, she cooks all this food for me, but she doesn’t it eat.”

Kate Hudson And Alex Rodriguez Confirm Romance With Public Kiss

Kate Hudson has confirmed she is dating baseball hunk Alex Rodriguez - by smooching the star in front of snappers at the New York Yankees annual picnic.

The actress has tried to keep her romance with Rodriguez quiet, but has failed to see off public interest in the relationship after she followed the sportsman to every game as his team tours the U.S. Hudson has now taken their romance public - by passionately kissing Rodriguez in front of the paparazzi on Saturday. The pair has reportedly been dating since last November, and have been pictured spending quality time together with their respective kids, Rodriguez’s daughters Ella and Natasha and Hudson’s son Ryder. Rodriguez was last year rumored to have dated Madonna following her split from Guy Ritchie.

Meanwhile Baseball player Alex Rodriguez had a furious bust-up with a pal of Kate Hudson - after she smashed up his car. A-Rod has been romantically linked to the You, Me and Dupree actress since they were spotted enjoying a romantic night out in New York earlier this month.

She was also seen cheering him on during several of his New York Yankees games, surround by close friends.

However, Rodriguez had a falling out with one of Hudson’s pals after she reportedly dented his car as she gave Hudson a ride. A source tells RadarOnline.com, “Kate Hudson’s girlfriend, the one she is seen with at Yankee games, has been driving his Suburban with Kate every morning, bright and early, to get coffee. A short time later the friend pulled around the car for Alex.

As soon as he saw the rear of the vehicle and the damage done, he had her get out of the car and started talking about her reckless driving. He was visibly upset. The crash was so bad the license plate was obscured. He was ranting and raving while she stood there Kate Hudson sheepishly.”

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Jennifer Lopez Won’t Replace Paula Abdul On ‘American Idol’ Jennifer Lopez has denied she is set to take over from Paula Abdul as a judge on American Idol - branding herself “just a fan” of the hit talent show. Rumors recently began circulating that the “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” hitmaker was being lined up to step into Abdul’s shoes as the lead female panelist after reports suggested the former singer/ choreographer had not renewed her contract a following a row over pay.

Speculation heightened after Lopez was spotted dining out with American Idol host Ryan Seacrest, who himself has just negotiated a huge pay rise for the new series.

Lopez was reportedly set to be announced as the new judge later this year in time for the eighth season of the popular singing contest.

But the star’s representative has refuted the reports, dismissing them as “completely false”. The spokesperson says, “The rumor of Jennifer Lopez throwing herself in the ring to take over for Paula Abdul is completely false. Jennifer loves Idol but just as a fan. “She just wrapped the feature film “The Back-Up Plan,” due out January 2010, and will release an album then as well.”

Giant pandas at further risk after Sichuan quake: study

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WASHINGTON - More than 60 percent of the wild giant panda population in China’s Sichuan province was affected by the powerful quake that rocked the region and killed thousands in May 2008, a study said Monday.

Ecologists also found that the massive 8.0-magnitude earthquake, which triggered huge landslides across the region’s mountainous terrain and left nearly 87,000 people dead or missing, destroyed nearly a quarter of panda habitat close to the tremor’s epicenter.

“It is probable that habitat fragmentation has separated the giant

panda population inhabiting this region, which could be as low as 35 individuals,” said Weihua Xu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the lead author of the study published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

“This kind of isolation increases their risk of extinction in the wild, due in part to a higher likelihood of

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This file photo taken on May 23, 2008 shows Chinese paramilitary soliders carrying a giant panda during a transfer operation at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong, a small town about 30 kilometres from the epicentre of the magnitude 8.0 earthquake, in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan. More than 60 percent of the wild giant panda population in China’s Sichuan province was affected by the powerful quake that rocked the region and killed thousands in May 2008, a study said on July 27, 2009.

Justin Timberlake celebrated the opening of his renovated, environmentally friendly golf course in style on the 10th tee — by smacking his drive 291 yards. singer and actor smiled Saturday after the tee-off, saying “nobody’s happier about this course” than he is.

Timberlake was the first to play a round at his Mirimichi golf course near Memphis, Tenn., after he spent $16 million renovating the course to make it more eco-friendly.

Timberlake drew a crowd of about 50 onlookers after starting an early round of 18 holes at 7:30 a.m. He played Saturday with his mother, stepfather and an old family friend from Tennessee. The Memphis native got the idea to buy the course from his dad back in 2007.

This image provided by Picture Group shows Justin Timberlake at the opening of the Mirimichi Golf Course, which he founded, on Friday July 24, 2009, in Memphis, Tenn.

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inbreeding.”

Sichuan is designated as one of 25 global biodiversity conservation hotspots. The province, which contains more than half of the Earth’s wild giant panda population, is home to over 12,000 plan species and 1,122 vertebrate species, noted Xu. The researchers’ analyses — which involved satellite images taken before and after the quake in the South Minshan region close to the earthquake’s center — revealed that over 354 kilometers (220 miles), or 23 percent, of the pandas’ habitat had become bare land.

Much of the remaining habitat areas were also found to have been fragmented into smaller, disconnected patches, which Xu said was just as harmful as the habitat being destroyed.

To produce its estimates, the study had used criteria that make forests suitable for pandas, such as the presence of bamboo — the pandas’ main food source — elevation and slope incline.

In order to encourage pandas to move between the disconnected patches, the study recommended that specially protected corridors be built and that some areas outside of nature reserves also be protected.

The earthquake caused twice more damage to panda habitat outside than inside the reserves. The researchers also proposed that panda habitat be taken into consideration during the relocation of affected towns after the quake.

“It is vital to the survival of this species that measures are taken to protect panda habitat outside nature reserves,” Xu said.

“Giant pandas in this region are more vulnerable than ever to human disturbance, including post-earthquake reconstruction and tourism.

When coupled with these increasing human activities, natural disasters create unprecedented challenges for biodiversity conservation.”

Some 600 giant pandas are still living in the wild, according to estimates.

Seven dead in Chechnya suicide bombing Agence France-Presse

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GROZNY, Russia - Seven people died and four others were wounded Sunday in a suicide attack in Russia’s turbulent southern mountain region of Chechnya, officials said.

Four Chechen police officers as well as a Georgian and a Turkish man died along with the suicide bomber in the capital Grozny, when the attacker detonated a bomb outside a concert hall around 5:00 pm (1300 GMT), Mariam Nalayeva, the spokeswoman for the investigators’ office, told AFP.

The Turkish national was working in the Caucasus republic’s building industry, she said, but did not give details about the other civilian.

The identity of the suicide bomber was not immediately known. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said the attack showed a violent campaign waged against Russian rule by Islamist rebels was in its “death throes.”

The Kremlin-backed leader told news agency Interfax: “It is an attempt to make our forces pull back from the area where a special operation is being carried out, an at-

tempt to make us stop working to destroy the rebels.”

“We will not stop until we have eliminated all the rebels who target peaceful citizens, the security forces, the military and members of religious orders.”

Chechnya has been the site of several bloody attacks since April when Moscow ended its controversial “anti-terror operation” which lasted more than a decade.

The North Caucasus republics of Ingushetia and Dagestan, which border Chechnya, are also regularly rocked by militant attacks.

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Saudi Arabia reports first death from swine flu Agence France-Presse

RIYADH - A Saudi man has died after being struck down by swine flu, the first death from the disease in the kingdom, the health ministry said on Monday.

The 30-year-old man was admitted to a private hospital in Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday with a fever and pneumonia. He died on Saturday from A(H1N1) despite the application of antibiotics and the anti-flu drug Tamiflu, the ministry said.

The number of cases in Saudi Arabia now tops 300, adding to worries over the expected influx of some two million foreigners undertaking the hajj pilgrimage to the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina later this year.

At an emergency meeting in

Cairo last week, Arab health ministers recommended that children under 12 and people over 65 be banned from the hajj this year to reduce the risk.

Saudi health ministry spokesman Khaled Marghlani said on Saturday that Riyadh was likely to adopt this measure, and that it would press for pilgrims to be vaccinated against A(H1N1) if a vaccine is proven and available ahead of the hajj period, beginning in November.

He added that the age restrictions would not affect the country quotas set for the number of people going on the hajj.

“This will not touch on the quotas, the percentage of pilgrims” allocated to each country, he told AFP. “When we implement the new law, it will stay as it is.”

Swiss Army knife morphs with age Former rival and now subsidiary Wenger recently added the folding SCHWYZ - A century and a nail clipper to the nail file, while quarter after a master cutler set out London’s Bond Street, New York’s to supply Swiss soldiers with a sur- Soho and Tokyo’s Ginza rival army vival tool, the iconic Swiss Army barracks around the world as outknife still adjusts gun sights, cuts lets.

Victorinox president Carl cheese and opens cans.

But deep in Switzerland’s rural Elsener is eyeing a BluetoothAlpine heartland, Karl Elsener’s equipped remote controller for descendants at Victorinox, the last business presentations next, and firm in the country that still makes even fingerprint ID to secure data the pocket knives, have been forced stored on the computer memory key. to adapt to the urban jungle.

“We always try to be very close Apart from the hallmark blades, the corkscrew — originally sold to to the market and get new ideas,” officers only — tweezers, and said Elsener junior, great-grandson screwdrivers, the nowadays 100- of the company’s founder.

Although the modern discourse strong range includes a “cyber tool” to fix computers, a USB key and a is imbued with marketing speak, Elsener says the family firm has blunt-tipped children’s knife. poured “a lot of soul” for more than 125 years into developing the legendary red tool.

“The Swiss Army knife became the reliable companion for many expeditions, to the North Pole, the South Pole, in the Amazon, to Mount Everest, even official equipment of the space shuttle crews,” said Elsener with pride.

“Powerful presidents have been using the Swiss Army knife as a gift for their visitors to the White House,” he added, also recalling that it was once used to perform an in-flight emergency tracheotomy high above the Philippines.

An exhibition at the Swiss National Museum in Schwyz, near the firm’s headquarters, retraces the AFP PHOTO / Nicholas RATZENBOECK Modern Swiss Army Knifes line up un- evolution of pocket knives der the portrait founder Karl Elsener dur- “from tool to icon”, revealing an exhibition at the Swiss Historic ing the far more rural flavour of the early models. museum in Schwyz on May 14, 2009.

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Danish Prince Joachim and French born Princess Marie and their son during his Christening in Moegeltoender Church, in Southern Jutland, on Sunday, July 26 , 2009. The little prince was baptised: Henrik Carl Joachim Alain.

Denmark’s newest prince christened Henrik Agence France-Presse

COPENHAGEN - The name of Denmark’s newest prince was revealed as Henrik during his christening ceremony on Sunday, ending a long wait for royal family watchers.

The baby, almost three months old, was baptised “Henrik Carl Joachim Alain” in a church in the village of Moegeltoender, where his parents were married.

The prince, seventh in line to the Danish throne, was born on May 4 and is the third son of Prince Joachim, 40, who is the son of Denmark’s Queen Margrethe.

The youngster’s mother Princess Marie, 33, is French-born but took Danish nationality when she wed Joachim.

The young Henrik takes his name from his grandfather French-born Prince Henrik, who is Queen Margrethe’s husband.

Joachim is the second son of Margrethe and Henrik.

In April 2005, Joachim divorced Princess Alexandra, originally from Hong Kong, after around 10 years of marriage.

The couple had two sons, nineyear-old Nikolai and seven-yearold Felix.

Joachim has a residence in Moegeltoender, a small village in southwest Denmark close to the German border.

Danish television channel TV2 caused controversy when it decided to broadcast the final stage of the Tour de France cycling competition instead of the christening.

This meant station DR1 was for the first time the only channel showing the event.

The announcement of the baby’s

name was the lead story on Denmark’s main news websites, however, ahead of the Tour de France.

Danish media also made mention on Sunday of the confusion caused by a German magazine dedicated to royalty, called Freizeit Royal.

The publication believed it had come across a major scoop with the revelation the prince would be called “Farvel”.

This was the word Princess Marie uttered as she left the maternity unit, and the magazine was convinced this was the new prince’s name.

But just one minor problem: “Farvel” means “goodbye” in Danish.

A statement posted on the Honduran military’s website expressed “unrestricted support” for Costa Ricamediated talks between Zelaya and Micheletti representatives, and said the military hoped to see a resolution “in the framework of the San Jose Accord.”

The accord, proposed by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, includes a call for Zelaya’s restoration to power in Honduras, with various limits.

Micheletti and his government however have rejected the deal.

The New York Times reported Sunday that the Honduran military communique, dated Friday, was drafted in Washington after days of talks between mid-level Honduran officers and US congressional aides, and was “significant” because it was the first sign of support for the San Jose Accord by a powerful sector of the interim government.

Meanwhile tension remained high on the border between Nicaragua and Honduras, with some 3,000 Honduran soldiers and police deployed in the area with orders to arrest Zelaya on charges of treason if he enters the country.

“We are organizing the resistance,” Zelaya declared, saying he had set up camp some 100 meters (yards) from the border with his country, but inside Nicaragua near the Las Manos border crossing.

Zelaya set up his base in the Nicaraguan town of Ocotal, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Las Manos, and planned to spend the night there.

In Honduras, the Micheletti government said they were extending the curfew in the border area until 6:00 am (1200 GMT) Monday. The curfew began at midday (1800 GMT) Friday.

Saturday, the body of a 23-year-old Zelaya supporter was found next to a coffee field, bearing knife gashes and signs he had been beaten. Supporters of the ousted president accuse Honduran police of murdering the man.

Munoz was buried in Tegucigalpa on Sunday, as activists chanted, “Blood of martyrs, seeds of freedom!”

Zelaya, a former rancher who veered to the left after taking office, was ousted amid fears he sought to extend his rule.

Aides would not confirm whether he would again attempt to cross into Honduras. He briefly stepped across the border Friday, but returned to Nicaragua and has been there since.

Zelaya denied reports that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton invited him to Washington.

In Washington, the Honduran embassy announced that Zelaya had asked President Barack Obama to ban bank transactions and cancel the US visas of individuals “directly responsible for my abduction and the interruption of constitutional order in my country.”

The list includes Micheletti, Attorney General Luis Alberto Rubi, public prosecutor Rosa America Miranda, and the top Honduran military brass.

“We believe that the measures that we are asking the US administration to take will exercise direct pressure on the perpetrators of the coup without causing any sort of negative impact on the people of Honduras,” said Enrique Reina, Zelaya’s new ambassador-designate in Washington.

However, two Republican members of the US Congress — Representatives Brian Bilbray of California and Connie Mack of Florida — showed up in Tegucigalpa Saturday in a display of support for the Micheletti regime.

Astronauts to perform...

From page 1 On Wednesday, NASA had ordered spacewalking astronauts back into the space station 30 minutes early after a spacesuit was found to be working improperly.

Higher than normal carbon dioxide levels were found in Cassidy’s spacesuit due to a problem with its lithium hydroxide canister, the US space agency said, adding he had not been in any danger.

The carbon dioxide removal unit continued to operate in manual mode Sunday.

Cassidy and his partner Dave Wolf managed to replace only two of the six batteries, so part of Friday’s outing was to install the remaining four.

Each ISS battery measures 40 inches by 36 inches by 18 inches (101 centimeters by 90 centimeters by 45 centimeters), weighs 375 pounds (170 kilos) and is designed to last 6.5 years.

Endeavour took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on July 15 for a 16-day mission with a crew of six Americans and one Canadian to help complete construction of the ISS. On the second Endeavour spacewalk July 19, the astronauts

moved equipment from Endeavour onto the ISS and repaired a malfunctioning toilet on the orbiting station.

During a first spacewalk July 18, astronauts completed construction of the Japanese Kibo science lab during an outing that lasted five and a half hours.

The ISS should be completed in 2010, which also is the target date for the retirement of the US fleet of three space shuttles.

Endeavour is expected to land back on Earth on July 31. The launch of the next shuttle, Discovery, to the ISS is planned for August 18 at 4:25 am (0825 GMT).

Meanwhile, in yet another deft maneuver Sunday, the space shuttle robotic arm grabbed the Japanese Exposed Section cargo carrier from the space station robotic arm, NASA reported.

Endeavour Commander Mark Polansky and Mission Specialist Julie Payette then used the shuttle arm to place the cargo carrier back into the shuttle payload bay.

The cargo carrier was launched with two science experiments and a communication system that were transferred to the Kibo Exposed Facility earlier in the mission.

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BUSINESS Lending slowdown in US Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Leading US banks are slowing lending as bankers and borrowers refrain from taking risks in the uncertain economy, The Wall Street Journal reported late Sunday.

An analysis by the Journal showed the total loans held by 15 large US banks shrank by 2.8 percent in the second quarter, and that more than half of the loan volume in April and May came from refinancing mortgages and renewing credit to businesses and not fresh loans.

The banks surveyed include financial giants such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup as well as regional banks such as Fifth Third Bancorp, based in Cincinnati, and Regions Financial Corp. of Birmingham, Alabama.

The 15 banks hold 47 percent of federally insured deposits and got 182.5 billion dollars in taxpayerfunded capital infusions through the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the report said.

As of June 30, the banks had 4.2 trillion dollars of loans on their bal-

ance sheets, down from 4.3 trillion dollars on March 31.

Loan portfolios shrank at 13 of the big banks, with the steepest decline at Comerica Inc., Dallas, where the loan total was down 4.3 percent to 46.6 billion dollars in the latest quarter, the paper noted.

Bank of America reported its loan portfolio slipped 3.6 percent to 942.2 billion dollars in the second quarter, the report said.

A spokesman for the largest US bank by assets said the decrease reflected higher loan losses and lower loan demand as borrowers pay off outstanding debts.

“There were fewer opportunities to make high-quality loans because of the recession,” he said.

The 15 banks reported about 803 billion dollars in loan volume in the second quarter, up 12.7 percent from

the first quarter, The Journal said.

But nearly 60 percent of the increase in April and May came from refinancing mortgages and renewing business loans, according to the report. In contrast, new home purchases accounted for just 23 percent of all mortgage loans.

On a year-to-year basis, total loans held by the 15 big banks rose 17 percent from 3.6 trillion dollars in the second quarter of last year, the paper reported.

But the increase was skewed by the impact of acquisitions that included J.P. Morgan’s takeover of the banking operations of Washington Mutual and Wachovia’s purchase by Wells Fargo Bank, it said.

Excluding purchases, loan portfolios shrank by about 10 percent as of June 30 from a year earlier, according to the report.

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This May 24, 2009 photo shows the sign for a Wells Fargo bank in Woodbury, Minnesota. Leading US banks are slowing lending as bankers and borrowers refrain from taking risks in the uncertain economy, The Wall Street Journal reported late Sunday.

Protectionism: the dog that barked but didn’t bite?

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GENEVA - The sharp trade contraction during the economic crisis, closely matching the trend in the 1930s, has triggered widespread fears that the world could suffer a re-run of the destructive protectionism of that era.

Policy-makers have said measures to curtail imports to save jobs at home could spark a repeat of the Great Depression, and political leaders have pledged not to restrict trade even as their governments raise tariffs and subsidies.

The ghosts of U.S. Senator Smoot and Representative Hawley, whose 1930 Tariff Act prompted a wave of tit-for-tat trade retaliation that fueled the tensions leading to World War Two, stalk many a newspaper article and economic conference.

But economists are increasingly arguing that measures taken in the crisis do not herald a wave of protectionism.

“I do think that there are a number of countries that have flirted a bit with protectionism but I don’t see in many countries anything like what was happening in the 1930s and certainly not in the United States,” said Craig VanGrasstek, who teaches trade policy at Harvard and Georgetown universities.

Trade no longer plays a big part in the U.S. public debate and President Barack Obama did not

view it as an election winner, he told a meeting of the Agency for International Trade Information and Cooperation (AITIC) in Geneva on July 21.

The number of requests for anti-dumping measures — duties to compensate for unfairly priced imports — sought by U.S. businesses is likely to fall to 12 in the 2009 fiscal year ending September 30, he said. That is half the 24 requests made in fiscal 2008 and a quarter of the average in the 1980s.

The U.S. Congress has enacted some protectionism measures, such as a ban on Chinese poultry imports, now the subject of a dispute at the World Trade Organization (WTO), and reversing permission for Mexican truckers to transport goods within the United States.

But this does not represent a big increase in this kind of activity from Congress, VanGrasstek said.

“If you look at what’s happening in the United States today we have less evidence for protection now than I have seen in previous recessions,” he said.

Roberta Piermartini, one of the authors of a WTO report on trade safety valves like anti-dumping, said further increases in such measures could be expected.

But so far the number of contingency measures is running at a far lower rate than in 2000-2002 in the aftermath of the Asia crisis,

she said at the Geneva launch of the report on July 22.

Such measures are on the rise, but the rise is moderate, said Olivier Cadot, a professor of trade policy at the University of Lausanne. He noted most measures in the current crisis had been taken by developing countries against other developing countries, especially China.

One reason economists are more optimistic is that policy-makers have learnt from the errors of the 1930s, and the trading system built up after World War Two, embodied in the WTO and its binding agreements, restricts countries’ ability to raise tariffs and choke off trade.

Another reason is that trade flows, forecast by the WTO to contract a real 10 percent this year from $15.78 trillion in 2008, are already showing the first signs of recovery.

The World Bank has been one of the loudest voices warning against the dangers of protectionism.

“It’s a potential danger... and one has to watch quite carefully to make sure things don’t spin out of control,” said Richard Newfarmer, World Bank representative in Geneva.

The monitoring of trade measures by institutions like the WTO and World Bank is putting the question of protectionism high on the international agenda and has

restrained countries from taking more such measures, he told Reuters.

But Newfarmer said the world was entering a dangerous period when an incipient economic recovery is helping trade recover, so that imports pick up as jobs continue to be cut.

“That’s a potentially noxious mixture that has to be watched carefully,” he said.

The WTO believes the worst is still to come in the crisis as unemployment rises further, Deputy Director-General Alejandro Jara said at the launch of the trade measures report.

“We’ve looked at the trends but we also can tell that the pressures will still be there for some time to come, so I don’t think that in the WTO we are crying wolf or exaggerating too much.”

German firms eye brighter future: survey Agence France-Presse

BERLIN - The majority of German businesses believe the financial crisis is over and the state of Europe’s top economy will improve in the next 12 months, according to a new study to be published on Monday.

Two out of three firms in Germany see the economy brightening in 2010 with nearly eight out of 10 seeing an improvement by 2011, according to the Ernst and Young survey to appear in Monday’s edition of daily Die Welt.

Moreover, 54 percent of the businesses polled said that Germany was likely to emerge stronger after the crisis than it

was before.

The poll appears to reflect a growing optimism in Germany’s business community that the country’s worst economic downturn since 1945 will be relatively short-lived.

On Friday, a closely-watched survey by the Ifo institute, measuring the mood among German firms, rose for the fourth month running in July.

Nevertheless, the government sees Germany — one of the world’s top exporters — shrinking by a record six percent this year.

The Ernst and Young report surveyed mainly small and mediumsized firms in Germany — widely seen as the backbone of the economy.

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US seeks action with China in key talks Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The United States and China on Monday open their most in-depth talks since the election of President Barack Obama, with the US side seeking far-reaching cooperation on the global economic crisis and beyond.

Obama was set to inaugurate the twoday dialogue, part of the US leader’s push to build a broader relationship between the biggest developed and developing

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Customers buy ice cream at a McDonald’s outlet in Beijing, China, Monday, July 27, 2009. With the global economy mired in recession, the United States and China begin talks Monday to seek a solution together despite tensions over currencies, the U.S. budget deficit and the huge U.S. trade gap with China.

economies.

With China increasingly uneasy about its massive exposure to the US economy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made a joint appeal to Beijing to work together to spur global growth.

“Simply put, few global problems can be solved by the US or China alone. And few can be solved without the US and China together,” Geithner and Clinton wrote in an article published Monday in The Wall Street Journal.

The duo, who will lead the US side in the talks, argued that measures by Wash-

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ington and Beijing to create and save jobs helped the world at large weather its worst economic turmoil since the Great Depression.

“The success of the world’s major economies in blunting the force of the global recession and setting the stage for recovery is due in substantial measure to the bold steps our two nations have taken,” they said.

No major announcements were expected in the Washington talks but a flurry of press briefings could shed some light on the sometimes fraught relationship of the two intertwined goliaths.

State Councillor Dai Bingguo and Vice Premier Wang Qishan are heading the Chinese delegation to the “Strategic and Economic Dialogue,” which broadens talks with China on the economy set up under former president George W. Bush.

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Two Freeport mine workers held after attacks Reuters

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Some 1,000 stranded workers of US mining company Freeport McMoRan in Papua leave the compound on July 26, 2009 after they were confined since July 11 due to a series of deadly ambushes by unknown gunmen along the Timika-Tembagapura that killed three people this month, including an Australian mine technician.

H1N1 virus spreading in 15 provinces Antara

JAKARTA - Influenza A (H1N1) virus has affected 400 people in 15 out of Indonesia’s 33 provinces, the health ministry said.

The provinces were Bali, Banten, Yogyakarta, Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, South Kalimantan, Riau Islands, North Sulawesi, South Sumatra, North Sumatra, East Kalimantan, South Sulawesi and Jambi, the ministry’s public communication center said in a press statement on Monday.

The ministry’s director general of disease control and environment health, Tjandra Yoga Aditama said the disease spread quickly from human to human among others

through coughing and sneezing.

Tjandra said the disease might lead to death but globally, it had a low death rate, namely 0.4 percent. In Indonesia, only one out of 400 people infected with H1N1 virus had died.

He said people could prevent themselves from being infected with the H1N1 virus by leading a clean and healthy life such as washing hands with soap or antiseptic and covering the mouth when coughing or sneezing.

“When you feel influenza symptoms, take body temperature lowering medicine, wear a face mass, avoid travel, and take a rest for two days.

And if you don’t recover in two days’ time, go to the doctor,” he said.

He said the government had made concerted efforts to prevent the spread

of the disease by monitoring H1N1 flu cases through port health services, preparing reference hospitals and anti virus medicines, intensifying surveillance against influenzatyped diseases, preparing laboratories and increasing campaign in disease prevention.

The ministry said last Friday 21 new cases of H1N1 virus were found in Jakarta, West Java, Banten, Riau Islands, Bali, Yogyakarta, North Sumatra, East Java, East Kalimantan and South Kalimantan.

The patients including some foreigners mostly had a history of traveling to infected countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea.

JAKARTA - Two workers at Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc’s (FCX.N) mine in Indonesia’s Papua province are among seven detained on suspicion of involvement in recent attacks in which an Australian man died, police said on Monday.

It is believed to be the first time workers at the mine have been detained in connection with the attacks.

The Australian, a technical expert employed at the giant Grasberg mine, was killed earlier this month and a security guard died and others were wounded in subsequent shootings.

The mine, about 3,400 km (2,100 miles) east of Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta, has been a frequent source of friction over its environmental impact, the share of revenues going to Papua and the legality of payments to Indonesian security forces who help guard the site.

Papua police spokesman Nurhaberi said two Freeport miners, Amon Yawame, 30, and Dominikus Beanal, 25, were among the seven detained as suspects.

“They are suspected of shooting at police officers and there is also a

link to the shooting of the Australian,” Nurhaberi said in a telephone text message to Reuters. He did not elaborate on what the link was.

The five other suspects are residents of nearby town Timika and one of them was caught carrying with hundreds of bullets, the Indonesian newspaper, Tempo, reported on Monday.

Nurhaberi confirmed the report.

“It’s clear there is plenty of evidence,” he said, but declined to say what other evidence police had recovered.

Freeport spokesman Mindo Pangaribuan declined to comment on the detention of the two Freeport workers but said the mine was operating as normal on Monday.

The Grasberg mine has the world’s largest recoverable reserves of copper and the largest gold reserves.

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JAKARTA - The return of deadly suicide bombings to Indonesia’s capital after years of quiet has turned attention on a complex web of schools and marriages that provide militants with succour and recruits.

Authorities have been under pressure to explain how suspected Islamists linked to the radical Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) network managed undetected to carry out double suicide bombings in Jakarta hotels that killed seven people, the first major attack since 2005.

Most astounding has been how close police appeared to be to catching Noordin Mohammed Top, the Malaysian extremist who leads a violent JI splinter faction believed to be behind the bombings.

A raid on a reported Noordin hideout in a bucolic Javanese village just days before the attacks turned up

bombs “identical” to those used in Jakarta, police have said.

The raid also turned up something less usual for one of Asia’s most wanted men: a new wife and two young children, they said.

Noordin’s married life on the run is typical of how JI is held together by strong social bonds forged largely through schools and marriage, International Crisis Group analyst Sidney Jones said.

These bonds mean militants in Noordin’s network can evade capture, despite the fact that the majority of JI disapprove of spectacular and bloody militant attacks on foreigners, Jones said.

“I think there has always been a sense that family alliances are a key element that preserves the unity of the network,” she said.

“There is no question that when you marry into a family you add another layer of protection.”

There are around 50 schools in Indonesia with some link to JI, Jones said, providing a pool of recruits — as well as the husbands and wives that have kept generations of JI families together.

The most famous of these schools, the al-Mukmin Islamic boarding school in the Central Java city of Solo, was visited by police within days of the latest attacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels.

Nur Hasbi, a close associate of Noordin being sought by police over the bombings, is a member of the school’s infamous class of 1995, Jones said.

Asmar Latin Sani, who blew himself up in a 2003 attack on the Marriott also allegedly planned by Noordin, was a member of the class. So was Muhammad Rais, who was jailed over the first Marriott attack and whose sister is Noordin’s first wife.

The school’s co-founder, firebrand

cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, continues to preach hatred for the West and denies any link between the school and the latest attack.

“It was a deed of the CIA. As with the Bali bombs, the CIA rode on the backs of holy warriors who planned for jihad,” he told AFP. Former JI militant Nasir Abas said that even if Bashir’s school was now closely watched by police, many others with JI links were available to provide refuge — and young recruits — to Noordin.

“Almost all schools have a small part, a small percentage, of people who agree with Noordin, so this is how he moves around,” Abas said.

One of the two unidentified suicide bombers, who police estimate is 16-17 years old, was likely recruited by Noordin from the alumni of a JI-linked school, Abas said.

“I belive he is not recruiting inside the schools, but is recruiting

from graduates of the schools,” said Abas, whose brother-in-law Mukhlas was one of three JI members executed last year for 2002 bombings on Bali that killed 202 people.

“I think this suicide bomber was a young person in high spirits who followed someone who called him a mujahid (holy warrior).”

The government has won praise for arresting hundreds of dangerous JI members and using “deradicalisation” programmes to convince others to reject violence.

But al-Mukmin alumnus Noor Huda Ismail said this approach could do nothing to break kinship bonds and the “culture of protection” that allows hardcore extremists like Noordin to continue to wreak havoc.

“In Islam there is an obligation (for a guest), even though they have done something wrong, they have to be protected for three days,” said a former JI militant, who refused to be named.

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Balinese Culture Denpasar - Singaraja freeway will be built Antara

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Tourists were enjoying their time at Kuta Beach on Saturday, July 25, 2009.

Eventhough there were two bombs blasted at Jakarta on July 17, 2009, tourists still visiting Bali. The head of Indonesian Businessman Association (Apindo) Bali, Panudiana Kuhn, said that the effect of Bomb Blasts in Jakarta on July 17 2009 is not influencing the business situation in Bali.

SINGARAJA – Bali’s Government will build a freeway connecting Denpasar with Singaraja in order to develop tourism in northern Bali especially in Buleleng regency. Bali’s Governor, Made Mangku Pastika in an open house in Buleleng, said “the freeway will make the time needed to reach Buleleng shorter. Hopefully more tourists will visit the regency if the freeway already done.”

The governor said that the freeway will started to be built in 2010 and will be finish in 2013. The freeway will also assist in balancing the development in Bali. Currently, the development mostly happened in southern Bali and the northern part rarely touched by the development.

The governor determined that in the future, the development must happened throughout Bali and he hope that the society in Bali supported the idea.

“The freeway will force the government to built tunnel as long as 2 kilometers and we will socialize the plan first. We don’t want the people of Bali to disagree because we always considered the nature and the holiness of the island.

Pastika explained that there are three targets of Bali’s development; they are education, health, and economy. In health, the government prepared 90 billion rupiah of health fund in 2010. The people of Bali who wanted health services don’t have to pay as long as they have identification card.

In education, the government committed that the people of Bali at least must study until senior high school. For that program, Bali’s Government prepared 800 billion rupiah and 500 billion rupiah came from the Indonesian Government.

The Governor went to Buleleng to find out what the local people say about the development of Bali. Many people in the open house

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Bali’s Government will build a freeway connecting Denpasar with Singaraja in order to develop tourism in northern Bali especially in Buleleng regency. Bali’s Governor, Made Mangku Pastika in an open house in Buleleng, said “the freeway will make the time needed to reach Buleleng shorter.

Hopefully more tourists will visit the regency if the freeway already done.”

The crisis effect is bigger than Jakarta How Balinese Eulogize Knowledge bomb blast

ask the governor or give their opinion or suggestion during the event. The governor was accompanied by the Vice Governor A.A. Puspayoga, the head of Buleleng, Putu Bagiada, and his vice Made Arga Pinatih.

Three Indigenous Wisdoms in Human-Animal Relation Nature is so kind to its dwellers, namely plants, animal and human. It has provided all things or sustenance required for the survival around the clock. All require the presence of one another. However, human being is the most determining elements among the three because he is the only creature bestowed with the capability of thinking.

One of the basic principles in Hinduism is the belief in the soul. All creatures are brought to life by vital energy or soul (atman). It represents the fragment of God (Brahman). Since material body bonds them, they could not identify their pure self. Human being endowed with power, words and mind has dominant role in maintaining the relations. He considers God dwells inside all creatures. On that account, he respects them all as equal creation.

Animal particularly cattle, for instance, has helped human being in living their life. Cow has provided him with the power to plough his soil in the rice field or garden, milk for children and adult, and its dung for fertilizing the soil. Meanwhile, other cattle give human some eggs or fleshes.

As a means of thanksgiving, Hindu devotees in Bali celebrate a day in 210 days as special ceremony to

their cattle. It is called Tumpek Kandang falling on Saturday Kliwon Wuku Uye. The Hindus in Bali will celebrate it by presenting some oblations showing a deep gratitude for being given with the energy assistance, healthy drink or delicious food. The same respect is given to cultivated plants that are honored through Tumpek Pengatag or Bubuh (Saturday Kliwon Wariga) and human itself has birthday (otonan) celebrated once in 210 days on the same day as his birth, not birthdate (on the same date). From the morning, girls or household mothers will be busy preparing everything for the ritual. It would be a great chance if you could see the Balinese perform the procession.

Since human being has a mind, there is an opportunity for him to get reunion with God because he can think and learn about God. This denotes another belief of Hinduism, namely moksha. Meanwhile, animal and plant do not have this opportunity. However, human being can provide help for this purpose in order the soul of animal and plant can reach higher level in their next life.

Dharma Caruban manuscript describes the correct way to slaughter animals and to take plants for the use of rituals. Before slaughtering them,

they are given particular mantra in the hope they could reach higher level of life in the next reincarnation. This treatment is equally given to any plants, fish (ekapada), fowl (dwipada) and fourlegged animals (catur pada).

Regarding to this human-animal relation, there is another manuscript, namely Darmaning Pemaculan or Shri Tattwa, describing about spiritual farming-related activities, ranging from how to build different sizes of dam, land cultivation and plant’s disease eradication to rituals held in each phase of the activity. In handling plant’s disease, local farmers remain to say prayers in order God or His manifestation keeps the animal properly, not disturb the plants. As the compensation for the animals, devotees will present proper food (lelabaan).

Otherwise, the farmers will set up trap or natural poison.

When getting in touch with human life, all animals are treated as God’s creation and communication maintained. Human offers thanksgiving oblation for the help extended; invocation for better life when animals are in use for rituals ingredients; acknowledgment and repressive action to plant diseases if they attack human plants. In short, he remains to give proper treatment as equal God’s creation. (BTN/punia)

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DENPASAR – The head of Indonesian Businessman Association (Apindo) Bali, Panudiana Kuhn, said that the effect of Bomb Blasts in Jakarta on July 17 2009 is not influencing the business situation in Bali.

“Even tough the bomb explosion surprising the businessmen but it didn’t affect the business greatly. The one that we must aware is the global financial crisis,” he added. The financial crisis made the number of tourists visited Bali decreased since few months ago.

Kuhn said, “after the incident, there were small number of tourists shortened their visitation in Bali and return to their native countries but there were no more cancellation after that. It means that there are no the following effects of the bomb blast.”

Based on the data from Bali Statistics Department, the number of tourists which decreased during January through May 2009 period was from Taiwan, South Korea, Germany, Japan, and England.

While there was also increased in the number of tourists visited Bali during the same period. The number of tourists from China increased 55%, from France increase

36%, from Australia 34%, from Malaysia increased 25%, and from Russia increased 5%.

Kuhn reminded that everyone should be aware of the crisis and work together to overcome it. Generally, the total number of tourists visited Bali increased compared to last year but the people must kep working hard to increase and develop tourism in Bali.

“Our economics is determined by tourism sector and we hope that the number of tourists visited Bali will be stable and even increase. If that condition happen, the business and culture will not affected by the crisis,” added Mr. Kuhn.

Kang Dharma Wijaya, a businessman, said that the financial crisis that made many business fainted can be handled soon. “Obviously we all hope that the crisis can go away as soon as possible because it affected many things including the number of tourists visited Bali,” he added.

Aji Saraswati.

Before the adoration of Saraswati is executed and before passing daytime, it is not allowed to read or write mantra, aksara suci (holy letters), and any literatures. For those who actualize a full brata saraswati by conducting a meditation, yoga, samadi, are not allowed to read or write for 24 hours.

In learning any kind of knowledge should be based with the pure heart, full of homage service to Sang Hyang Aji Saraswati including maintaining our own library.

After the praying is over, when the sun is set, and into the night, many events will be held by the sekaa pesantian or krama banjar (villagers) such as reading the holy inscriptions, dharma tula (religious discussion), or dharma wacana (religious talkative).

The reading of mabebasan, makidung or mepapawosan is truly interesting, because the person who reads the books is not only able to inspire the meaning inside, but recite a melodious voice as well.

A day after Saraswati holyday is called Banyu Pinaruh, which is on Sunday Paing wuku Sinta (2 August 2009). On that day, Hindus devotees will in crowds take a bath at the beach and also with kumkuman water (a scent flower water) and end with nunas (bid for) yellowish rice, which means that the knowledge will be settled inside our pure soul so it will useful for mankind’s life. (BTN/*)

(Tuna Salad)

The emphatic flavour of tuna marries well with the tangy seasonings in this recipe. You can substitute fresh tuna with canned tuna chunks; season the tuna as directed but do not attempt to fry it.

4 fresh tuna steaks, weighing 100 g (3,5 oz) each 1/4 cup spice paste for seafood 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon black peppercorns, crushed 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lime juice 2 tablespoons oil 1 cup Sambel Matah salt and pepper to taste fried shallots to garnish Season fresh tuna steaks with seafood spice paste, salt, pepper and lime juice. Heat oil in flying pan and cook tuna steaks for 3 minutes on each side over high heat. Do not overcook. Set aside and allow to cool down, then break the tuna into small chunks. Place in salad bowl, add Sambel Matah and mix well. Season to taste with salt and pepper and garnish with fried shallots. Serve at room temperature with steamed rice.

Helpful hint: Any other firm, well-flavoured fresh fish, such as snapper, sea bass or salmon, can be substituted for tuna. (http://www.99bali.com)

Jukut Kakul (Snail Soup)

The French aren’t the only ones to have a liking for snails. The Balinese gather snails in the rice fields, but you can use the canned variety. Cucumber, zucchini or any other summer squash can be used instead of green papaya.

Saraswati Holy Day in Bali The knowledge is significant for life, but it cannot be misused. The Balinese Hindu possess of specific way to eulogize knowledge. Every six month, according to Hindu’s calendar, the Balinese celebrates Saraswati Holy Day, the reveal of knowledge.

Saraswati Holy Day or also called with Piodalan Sang HyangAji Saraswati that be fell on Saturday (Saniscara Umanis Watu Gunung), which this year will fall on 1 August 2009. How lucky for you who are on a vacation in Bali to see the Balinese activities in eulogizing the knowledge as a process to be a judicious figure.

The praying will be centered in schools and also in Jagatnatha Temple, in the center of Denpasar city.

Saraswati means something possessed with flowing character, knowing resource and prudence. The series of the Sarawati ritual will begin on Sunday (26 July 2009) with the succession of samadi (meditation) or praying.

On the pitch day of Saraswati, all books, lontar, or other holy documents will be attached with the offerings of banten saraswati, then proceed with praying to adore Goddess Saraswati, the God’s manifestation as the creator and protector of knowledge.

The adoration and all things related with brata saraswati (important things) are carried out in the morning or dawn but not passed daytime. If it does pass the day, we will only adore for worthless letters not the divine power of Sang Hyang

Sambel Be Tongkol

200 g (6 1/2 oz) unripe green papaya 1 litre (4 cups) chicken stock 1/2 cup spice paste for seafood 1 stalk lemon grass, bruised 2 salam leaves 1 tablespoon oil 48 canned snails, washed and drained 1 teaspoon salt freshly ground black pepper fried shallots to garnish Peel the papaya, cut in half lengthwise and remove the seeds, then cut it lengthwise in 4 or 6 slices. Cut crosswise into slices about 0.5 cm (1/4 in) thick.

Combine stock, spice paste, lemon grass, salam leaves and oil in a large pot. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 5 minutes. Add the papaya and simmer until almost tender. Add the snails and continue cooking until the papaya softens. Season with salt and pepper to taste and garnish with fried shallots.

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Helpful hint: If you do not care for snails, you can substitute 12 dried black Chinese mushrooms, washed and soaked in warm water for 20 minutes. Add them together with the papaya to ensure they will be tender by the time the papaya is cooked. (http:// www.99bali.com)

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Balinese Culture Denpasar - Singaraja freeway will be built Antara

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Tourists were enjoying their time at Kuta Beach on Saturday, July 25, 2009.

Eventhough there were two bombs blasted at Jakarta on July 17, 2009, tourists still visiting Bali. The head of Indonesian Businessman Association (Apindo) Bali, Panudiana Kuhn, said that the effect of Bomb Blasts in Jakarta on July 17 2009 is not influencing the business situation in Bali.

SINGARAJA – Bali’s Government will build a freeway connecting Denpasar with Singaraja in order to develop tourism in northern Bali especially in Buleleng regency. Bali’s Governor, Made Mangku Pastika in an open house in Buleleng, said “the freeway will make the time needed to reach Buleleng shorter. Hopefully more tourists will visit the regency if the freeway already done.”

The governor said that the freeway will started to be built in 2010 and will be finish in 2013. The freeway will also assist in balancing the development in Bali. Currently, the development mostly happened in southern Bali and the northern part rarely touched by the development.

The governor determined that in the future, the development must happened throughout Bali and he hope that the society in Bali supported the idea.

“The freeway will force the government to built tunnel as long as 2 kilometers and we will socialize the plan first. We don’t want the people of Bali to disagree because we always considered the nature and the holiness of the island.

Pastika explained that there are three targets of Bali’s development; they are education, health, and economy. In health, the government prepared 90 billion rupiah of health fund in 2010. The people of Bali who wanted health services don’t have to pay as long as they have identification card.

In education, the government committed that the people of Bali at least must study until senior high school. For that program, Bali’s Government prepared 800 billion rupiah and 500 billion rupiah came from the Indonesian Government.

The Governor went to Buleleng to find out what the local people say about the development of Bali. Many people in the open house

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Bali’s Government will build a freeway connecting Denpasar with Singaraja in order to develop tourism in northern Bali especially in Buleleng regency. Bali’s Governor, Made Mangku Pastika in an open house in Buleleng, said “the freeway will make the time needed to reach Buleleng shorter.

Hopefully more tourists will visit the regency if the freeway already done.”

The crisis effect is bigger than Jakarta How Balinese Eulogize Knowledge bomb blast

ask the governor or give their opinion or suggestion during the event. The governor was accompanied by the Vice Governor A.A. Puspayoga, the head of Buleleng, Putu Bagiada, and his vice Made Arga Pinatih.

Three Indigenous Wisdoms in Human-Animal Relation Nature is so kind to its dwellers, namely plants, animal and human. It has provided all things or sustenance required for the survival around the clock. All require the presence of one another. However, human being is the most determining elements among the three because he is the only creature bestowed with the capability of thinking.

One of the basic principles in Hinduism is the belief in the soul. All creatures are brought to life by vital energy or soul (atman). It represents the fragment of God (Brahman). Since material body bonds them, they could not identify their pure self. Human being endowed with power, words and mind has dominant role in maintaining the relations. He considers God dwells inside all creatures. On that account, he respects them all as equal creation.

Animal particularly cattle, for instance, has helped human being in living their life. Cow has provided him with the power to plough his soil in the rice field or garden, milk for children and adult, and its dung for fertilizing the soil. Meanwhile, other cattle give human some eggs or fleshes.

As a means of thanksgiving, Hindu devotees in Bali celebrate a day in 210 days as special ceremony to

their cattle. It is called Tumpek Kandang falling on Saturday Kliwon Wuku Uye. The Hindus in Bali will celebrate it by presenting some oblations showing a deep gratitude for being given with the energy assistance, healthy drink or delicious food. The same respect is given to cultivated plants that are honored through Tumpek Pengatag or Bubuh (Saturday Kliwon Wariga) and human itself has birthday (otonan) celebrated once in 210 days on the same day as his birth, not birthdate (on the same date). From the morning, girls or household mothers will be busy preparing everything for the ritual. It would be a great chance if you could see the Balinese perform the procession.

Since human being has a mind, there is an opportunity for him to get reunion with God because he can think and learn about God. This denotes another belief of Hinduism, namely moksha. Meanwhile, animal and plant do not have this opportunity. However, human being can provide help for this purpose in order the soul of animal and plant can reach higher level in their next life.

Dharma Caruban manuscript describes the correct way to slaughter animals and to take plants for the use of rituals. Before slaughtering them,

they are given particular mantra in the hope they could reach higher level of life in the next reincarnation. This treatment is equally given to any plants, fish (ekapada), fowl (dwipada) and fourlegged animals (catur pada).

Regarding to this human-animal relation, there is another manuscript, namely Darmaning Pemaculan or Shri Tattwa, describing about spiritual farming-related activities, ranging from how to build different sizes of dam, land cultivation and plant’s disease eradication to rituals held in each phase of the activity. In handling plant’s disease, local farmers remain to say prayers in order God or His manifestation keeps the animal properly, not disturb the plants. As the compensation for the animals, devotees will present proper food (lelabaan).

Otherwise, the farmers will set up trap or natural poison.

When getting in touch with human life, all animals are treated as God’s creation and communication maintained. Human offers thanksgiving oblation for the help extended; invocation for better life when animals are in use for rituals ingredients; acknowledgment and repressive action to plant diseases if they attack human plants. In short, he remains to give proper treatment as equal God’s creation. (BTN/punia)

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DENPASAR – The head of Indonesian Businessman Association (Apindo) Bali, Panudiana Kuhn, said that the effect of Bomb Blasts in Jakarta on July 17 2009 is not influencing the business situation in Bali.

“Even tough the bomb explosion surprising the businessmen but it didn’t affect the business greatly. The one that we must aware is the global financial crisis,” he added. The financial crisis made the number of tourists visited Bali decreased since few months ago.

Kuhn said, “after the incident, there were small number of tourists shortened their visitation in Bali and return to their native countries but there were no more cancellation after that. It means that there are no the following effects of the bomb blast.”

Based on the data from Bali Statistics Department, the number of tourists which decreased during January through May 2009 period was from Taiwan, South Korea, Germany, Japan, and England.

While there was also increased in the number of tourists visited Bali during the same period. The number of tourists from China increased 55%, from France increase

36%, from Australia 34%, from Malaysia increased 25%, and from Russia increased 5%.

Kuhn reminded that everyone should be aware of the crisis and work together to overcome it. Generally, the total number of tourists visited Bali increased compared to last year but the people must kep working hard to increase and develop tourism in Bali.

“Our economics is determined by tourism sector and we hope that the number of tourists visited Bali will be stable and even increase. If that condition happen, the business and culture will not affected by the crisis,” added Mr. Kuhn.

Kang Dharma Wijaya, a businessman, said that the financial crisis that made many business fainted can be handled soon. “Obviously we all hope that the crisis can go away as soon as possible because it affected many things including the number of tourists visited Bali,” he added.

Aji Saraswati.

Before the adoration of Saraswati is executed and before passing daytime, it is not allowed to read or write mantra, aksara suci (holy letters), and any literatures. For those who actualize a full brata saraswati by conducting a meditation, yoga, samadi, are not allowed to read or write for 24 hours.

In learning any kind of knowledge should be based with the pure heart, full of homage service to Sang Hyang Aji Saraswati including maintaining our own library.

After the praying is over, when the sun is set, and into the night, many events will be held by the sekaa pesantian or krama banjar (villagers) such as reading the holy inscriptions, dharma tula (religious discussion), or dharma wacana (religious talkative).

The reading of mabebasan, makidung or mepapawosan is truly interesting, because the person who reads the books is not only able to inspire the meaning inside, but recite a melodious voice as well.

A day after Saraswati holyday is called Banyu Pinaruh, which is on Sunday Paing wuku Sinta (2 August 2009). On that day, Hindus devotees will in crowds take a bath at the beach and also with kumkuman water (a scent flower water) and end with nunas (bid for) yellowish rice, which means that the knowledge will be settled inside our pure soul so it will useful for mankind’s life. (BTN/*)

(Tuna Salad)

The emphatic flavour of tuna marries well with the tangy seasonings in this recipe. You can substitute fresh tuna with canned tuna chunks; season the tuna as directed but do not attempt to fry it.

4 fresh tuna steaks, weighing 100 g (3,5 oz) each 1/4 cup spice paste for seafood 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon black peppercorns, crushed 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lime juice 2 tablespoons oil 1 cup Sambel Matah salt and pepper to taste fried shallots to garnish Season fresh tuna steaks with seafood spice paste, salt, pepper and lime juice. Heat oil in flying pan and cook tuna steaks for 3 minutes on each side over high heat. Do not overcook. Set aside and allow to cool down, then break the tuna into small chunks. Place in salad bowl, add Sambel Matah and mix well. Season to taste with salt and pepper and garnish with fried shallots. Serve at room temperature with steamed rice.

Helpful hint: Any other firm, well-flavoured fresh fish, such as snapper, sea bass or salmon, can be substituted for tuna. (http://www.99bali.com)

Jukut Kakul (Snail Soup)

The French aren’t the only ones to have a liking for snails. The Balinese gather snails in the rice fields, but you can use the canned variety. Cucumber, zucchini or any other summer squash can be used instead of green papaya.

Saraswati Holy Day in Bali The knowledge is significant for life, but it cannot be misused. The Balinese Hindu possess of specific way to eulogize knowledge. Every six month, according to Hindu’s calendar, the Balinese celebrates Saraswati Holy Day, the reveal of knowledge.

Saraswati Holy Day or also called with Piodalan Sang HyangAji Saraswati that be fell on Saturday (Saniscara Umanis Watu Gunung), which this year will fall on 1 August 2009. How lucky for you who are on a vacation in Bali to see the Balinese activities in eulogizing the knowledge as a process to be a judicious figure.

The praying will be centered in schools and also in Jagatnatha Temple, in the center of Denpasar city.

Saraswati means something possessed with flowing character, knowing resource and prudence. The series of the Sarawati ritual will begin on Sunday (26 July 2009) with the succession of samadi (meditation) or praying.

On the pitch day of Saraswati, all books, lontar, or other holy documents will be attached with the offerings of banten saraswati, then proceed with praying to adore Goddess Saraswati, the God’s manifestation as the creator and protector of knowledge.

The adoration and all things related with brata saraswati (important things) are carried out in the morning or dawn but not passed daytime. If it does pass the day, we will only adore for worthless letters not the divine power of Sang Hyang

Sambel Be Tongkol

200 g (6 1/2 oz) unripe green papaya 1 litre (4 cups) chicken stock 1/2 cup spice paste for seafood 1 stalk lemon grass, bruised 2 salam leaves 1 tablespoon oil 48 canned snails, washed and drained 1 teaspoon salt freshly ground black pepper fried shallots to garnish Peel the papaya, cut in half lengthwise and remove the seeds, then cut it lengthwise in 4 or 6 slices. Cut crosswise into slices about 0.5 cm (1/4 in) thick.

Combine stock, spice paste, lemon grass, salam leaves and oil in a large pot. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 5 minutes. Add the papaya and simmer until almost tender. Add the snails and continue cooking until the papaya softens. Season with salt and pepper to taste and garnish with fried shallots.

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Helpful hint: If you do not care for snails, you can substitute 12 dried black Chinese mushrooms, washed and soaked in warm water for 20 minutes. Add them together with the papaya to ensure they will be tender by the time the papaya is cooked. (http:// www.99bali.com)

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US seeks action with China in key talks Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The United States and China on Monday open their most in-depth talks since the election of President Barack Obama, with the US side seeking far-reaching cooperation on the global economic crisis and beyond.

Obama was set to inaugurate the twoday dialogue, part of the US leader’s push to build a broader relationship between the biggest developed and developing

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Customers buy ice cream at a McDonald’s outlet in Beijing, China, Monday, July 27, 2009. With the global economy mired in recession, the United States and China begin talks Monday to seek a solution together despite tensions over currencies, the U.S. budget deficit and the huge U.S. trade gap with China.

economies.

With China increasingly uneasy about its massive exposure to the US economy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made a joint appeal to Beijing to work together to spur global growth.

“Simply put, few global problems can be solved by the US or China alone. And few can be solved without the US and China together,” Geithner and Clinton wrote in an article published Monday in The Wall Street Journal.

The duo, who will lead the US side in the talks, argued that measures by Wash-

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“The success of the world’s major economies in blunting the force of the global recession and setting the stage for recovery is due in substantial measure to the bold steps our two nations have taken,” they said.

No major announcements were expected in the Washington talks but a flurry of press briefings could shed some light on the sometimes fraught relationship of the two intertwined goliaths.

State Councillor Dai Bingguo and Vice Premier Wang Qishan are heading the Chinese delegation to the “Strategic and Economic Dialogue,” which broadens talks with China on the economy set up under former president George W. Bush.

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Two Freeport mine workers held after attacks Reuters

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Some 1,000 stranded workers of US mining company Freeport McMoRan in Papua leave the compound on July 26, 2009 after they were confined since July 11 due to a series of deadly ambushes by unknown gunmen along the Timika-Tembagapura that killed three people this month, including an Australian mine technician.

H1N1 virus spreading in 15 provinces Antara

JAKARTA - Influenza A (H1N1) virus has affected 400 people in 15 out of Indonesia’s 33 provinces, the health ministry said.

The provinces were Bali, Banten, Yogyakarta, Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, South Kalimantan, Riau Islands, North Sulawesi, South Sumatra, North Sumatra, East Kalimantan, South Sulawesi and Jambi, the ministry’s public communication center said in a press statement on Monday.

The ministry’s director general of disease control and environment health, Tjandra Yoga Aditama said the disease spread quickly from human to human among others

through coughing and sneezing.

Tjandra said the disease might lead to death but globally, it had a low death rate, namely 0.4 percent. In Indonesia, only one out of 400 people infected with H1N1 virus had died.

He said people could prevent themselves from being infected with the H1N1 virus by leading a clean and healthy life such as washing hands with soap or antiseptic and covering the mouth when coughing or sneezing.

“When you feel influenza symptoms, take body temperature lowering medicine, wear a face mass, avoid travel, and take a rest for two days.

And if you don’t recover in two days’ time, go to the doctor,” he said.

He said the government had made concerted efforts to prevent the spread

of the disease by monitoring H1N1 flu cases through port health services, preparing reference hospitals and anti virus medicines, intensifying surveillance against influenzatyped diseases, preparing laboratories and increasing campaign in disease prevention.

The ministry said last Friday 21 new cases of H1N1 virus were found in Jakarta, West Java, Banten, Riau Islands, Bali, Yogyakarta, North Sumatra, East Java, East Kalimantan and South Kalimantan.

The patients including some foreigners mostly had a history of traveling to infected countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea.

JAKARTA - Two workers at Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc’s (FCX.N) mine in Indonesia’s Papua province are among seven detained on suspicion of involvement in recent attacks in which an Australian man died, police said on Monday.

It is believed to be the first time workers at the mine have been detained in connection with the attacks.

The Australian, a technical expert employed at the giant Grasberg mine, was killed earlier this month and a security guard died and others were wounded in subsequent shootings.

The mine, about 3,400 km (2,100 miles) east of Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta, has been a frequent source of friction over its environmental impact, the share of revenues going to Papua and the legality of payments to Indonesian security forces who help guard the site.

Papua police spokesman Nurhaberi said two Freeport miners, Amon Yawame, 30, and Dominikus Beanal, 25, were among the seven detained as suspects.

“They are suspected of shooting at police officers and there is also a

link to the shooting of the Australian,” Nurhaberi said in a telephone text message to Reuters. He did not elaborate on what the link was.

The five other suspects are residents of nearby town Timika and one of them was caught carrying with hundreds of bullets, the Indonesian newspaper, Tempo, reported on Monday.

Nurhaberi confirmed the report.

“It’s clear there is plenty of evidence,” he said, but declined to say what other evidence police had recovered.

Freeport spokesman Mindo Pangaribuan declined to comment on the detention of the two Freeport workers but said the mine was operating as normal on Monday.

The Grasberg mine has the world’s largest recoverable reserves of copper and the largest gold reserves.

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JAKARTA - The return of deadly suicide bombings to Indonesia’s capital after years of quiet has turned attention on a complex web of schools and marriages that provide militants with succour and recruits.

Authorities have been under pressure to explain how suspected Islamists linked to the radical Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) network managed undetected to carry out double suicide bombings in Jakarta hotels that killed seven people, the first major attack since 2005.

Most astounding has been how close police appeared to be to catching Noordin Mohammed Top, the Malaysian extremist who leads a violent JI splinter faction believed to be behind the bombings.

A raid on a reported Noordin hideout in a bucolic Javanese village just days before the attacks turned up

bombs “identical” to those used in Jakarta, police have said.

The raid also turned up something less usual for one of Asia’s most wanted men: a new wife and two young children, they said.

Noordin’s married life on the run is typical of how JI is held together by strong social bonds forged largely through schools and marriage, International Crisis Group analyst Sidney Jones said.

These bonds mean militants in Noordin’s network can evade capture, despite the fact that the majority of JI disapprove of spectacular and bloody militant attacks on foreigners, Jones said.

“I think there has always been a sense that family alliances are a key element that preserves the unity of the network,” she said.

“There is no question that when you marry into a family you add another layer of protection.”

There are around 50 schools in Indonesia with some link to JI, Jones said, providing a pool of recruits — as well as the husbands and wives that have kept generations of JI families together.

The most famous of these schools, the al-Mukmin Islamic boarding school in the Central Java city of Solo, was visited by police within days of the latest attacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels.

Nur Hasbi, a close associate of Noordin being sought by police over the bombings, is a member of the school’s infamous class of 1995, Jones said.

Asmar Latin Sani, who blew himself up in a 2003 attack on the Marriott also allegedly planned by Noordin, was a member of the class. So was Muhammad Rais, who was jailed over the first Marriott attack and whose sister is Noordin’s first wife.

The school’s co-founder, firebrand

cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, continues to preach hatred for the West and denies any link between the school and the latest attack.

“It was a deed of the CIA. As with the Bali bombs, the CIA rode on the backs of holy warriors who planned for jihad,” he told AFP. Former JI militant Nasir Abas said that even if Bashir’s school was now closely watched by police, many others with JI links were available to provide refuge — and young recruits — to Noordin.

“Almost all schools have a small part, a small percentage, of people who agree with Noordin, so this is how he moves around,” Abas said.

One of the two unidentified suicide bombers, who police estimate is 16-17 years old, was likely recruited by Noordin from the alumni of a JI-linked school, Abas said.

“I belive he is not recruiting inside the schools, but is recruiting

from graduates of the schools,” said Abas, whose brother-in-law Mukhlas was one of three JI members executed last year for 2002 bombings on Bali that killed 202 people.

“I think this suicide bomber was a young person in high spirits who followed someone who called him a mujahid (holy warrior).”

The government has won praise for arresting hundreds of dangerous JI members and using “deradicalisation” programmes to convince others to reject violence.

But al-Mukmin alumnus Noor Huda Ismail said this approach could do nothing to break kinship bonds and the “culture of protection” that allows hardcore extremists like Noordin to continue to wreak havoc.

“In Islam there is an obligation (for a guest), even though they have done something wrong, they have to be protected for three days,” said a former JI militant, who refused to be named.

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Danish Prince Joachim and French born Princess Marie and their son during his Christening in Moegeltoender Church, in Southern Jutland, on Sunday, July 26 , 2009. The little prince was baptised: Henrik Carl Joachim Alain.

Denmark’s newest prince christened Henrik Agence France-Presse

COPENHAGEN - The name of Denmark’s newest prince was revealed as Henrik during his christening ceremony on Sunday, ending a long wait for royal family watchers.

The baby, almost three months old, was baptised “Henrik Carl Joachim Alain” in a church in the village of Moegeltoender, where his parents were married.

The prince, seventh in line to the Danish throne, was born on May 4 and is the third son of Prince Joachim, 40, who is the son of Denmark’s Queen Margrethe.

The youngster’s mother Princess Marie, 33, is French-born but took Danish nationality when she wed Joachim.

The young Henrik takes his name from his grandfather French-born Prince Henrik, who is Queen Margrethe’s husband.

Joachim is the second son of Margrethe and Henrik.

In April 2005, Joachim divorced Princess Alexandra, originally from Hong Kong, after around 10 years of marriage.

The couple had two sons, nineyear-old Nikolai and seven-yearold Felix.

Joachim has a residence in Moegeltoender, a small village in southwest Denmark close to the German border.

Danish television channel TV2 caused controversy when it decided to broadcast the final stage of the Tour de France cycling competition instead of the christening.

This meant station DR1 was for the first time the only channel showing the event.

The announcement of the baby’s

name was the lead story on Denmark’s main news websites, however, ahead of the Tour de France.

Danish media also made mention on Sunday of the confusion caused by a German magazine dedicated to royalty, called Freizeit Royal.

The publication believed it had come across a major scoop with the revelation the prince would be called “Farvel”.

This was the word Princess Marie uttered as she left the maternity unit, and the magazine was convinced this was the new prince’s name.

But just one minor problem: “Farvel” means “goodbye” in Danish.

A statement posted on the Honduran military’s website expressed “unrestricted support” for Costa Ricamediated talks between Zelaya and Micheletti representatives, and said the military hoped to see a resolution “in the framework of the San Jose Accord.”

The accord, proposed by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, includes a call for Zelaya’s restoration to power in Honduras, with various limits.

Micheletti and his government however have rejected the deal.

The New York Times reported Sunday that the Honduran military communique, dated Friday, was drafted in Washington after days of talks between mid-level Honduran officers and US congressional aides, and was “significant” because it was the first sign of support for the San Jose Accord by a powerful sector of the interim government.

Meanwhile tension remained high on the border between Nicaragua and Honduras, with some 3,000 Honduran soldiers and police deployed in the area with orders to arrest Zelaya on charges of treason if he enters the country.

“We are organizing the resistance,” Zelaya declared, saying he had set up camp some 100 meters (yards) from the border with his country, but inside Nicaragua near the Las Manos border crossing.

Zelaya set up his base in the Nicaraguan town of Ocotal, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Las Manos, and planned to spend the night there.

In Honduras, the Micheletti government said they were extending the curfew in the border area until 6:00 am (1200 GMT) Monday. The curfew began at midday (1800 GMT) Friday.

Saturday, the body of a 23-year-old Zelaya supporter was found next to a coffee field, bearing knife gashes and signs he had been beaten. Supporters of the ousted president accuse Honduran police of murdering the man.

Munoz was buried in Tegucigalpa on Sunday, as activists chanted, “Blood of martyrs, seeds of freedom!”

Zelaya, a former rancher who veered to the left after taking office, was ousted amid fears he sought to extend his rule.

Aides would not confirm whether he would again attempt to cross into Honduras. He briefly stepped across the border Friday, but returned to Nicaragua and has been there since.

Zelaya denied reports that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton invited him to Washington.

In Washington, the Honduran embassy announced that Zelaya had asked President Barack Obama to ban bank transactions and cancel the US visas of individuals “directly responsible for my abduction and the interruption of constitutional order in my country.”

The list includes Micheletti, Attorney General Luis Alberto Rubi, public prosecutor Rosa America Miranda, and the top Honduran military brass.

“We believe that the measures that we are asking the US administration to take will exercise direct pressure on the perpetrators of the coup without causing any sort of negative impact on the people of Honduras,” said Enrique Reina, Zelaya’s new ambassador-designate in Washington.

However, two Republican members of the US Congress — Representatives Brian Bilbray of California and Connie Mack of Florida — showed up in Tegucigalpa Saturday in a display of support for the Micheletti regime.

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From page 1 On Wednesday, NASA had ordered spacewalking astronauts back into the space station 30 minutes early after a spacesuit was found to be working improperly.

Higher than normal carbon dioxide levels were found in Cassidy’s spacesuit due to a problem with its lithium hydroxide canister, the US space agency said, adding he had not been in any danger.

The carbon dioxide removal unit continued to operate in manual mode Sunday.

Cassidy and his partner Dave Wolf managed to replace only two of the six batteries, so part of Friday’s outing was to install the remaining four.

Each ISS battery measures 40 inches by 36 inches by 18 inches (101 centimeters by 90 centimeters by 45 centimeters), weighs 375 pounds (170 kilos) and is designed to last 6.5 years.

Endeavour took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on July 15 for a 16-day mission with a crew of six Americans and one Canadian to help complete construction of the ISS. On the second Endeavour spacewalk July 19, the astronauts

moved equipment from Endeavour onto the ISS and repaired a malfunctioning toilet on the orbiting station.

During a first spacewalk July 18, astronauts completed construction of the Japanese Kibo science lab during an outing that lasted five and a half hours.

The ISS should be completed in 2010, which also is the target date for the retirement of the US fleet of three space shuttles.

Endeavour is expected to land back on Earth on July 31. The launch of the next shuttle, Discovery, to the ISS is planned for August 18 at 4:25 am (0825 GMT).

Meanwhile, in yet another deft maneuver Sunday, the space shuttle robotic arm grabbed the Japanese Exposed Section cargo carrier from the space station robotic arm, NASA reported.

Endeavour Commander Mark Polansky and Mission Specialist Julie Payette then used the shuttle arm to place the cargo carrier back into the shuttle payload bay.

The cargo carrier was launched with two science experiments and a communication system that were transferred to the Kibo Exposed Facility earlier in the mission.

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BUSINESS Lending slowdown in US Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Leading US banks are slowing lending as bankers and borrowers refrain from taking risks in the uncertain economy, The Wall Street Journal reported late Sunday.

An analysis by the Journal showed the total loans held by 15 large US banks shrank by 2.8 percent in the second quarter, and that more than half of the loan volume in April and May came from refinancing mortgages and renewing credit to businesses and not fresh loans.

The banks surveyed include financial giants such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup as well as regional banks such as Fifth Third Bancorp, based in Cincinnati, and Regions Financial Corp. of Birmingham, Alabama.

The 15 banks hold 47 percent of federally insured deposits and got 182.5 billion dollars in taxpayerfunded capital infusions through the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the report said.

As of June 30, the banks had 4.2 trillion dollars of loans on their bal-

ance sheets, down from 4.3 trillion dollars on March 31.

Loan portfolios shrank at 13 of the big banks, with the steepest decline at Comerica Inc., Dallas, where the loan total was down 4.3 percent to 46.6 billion dollars in the latest quarter, the paper noted.

Bank of America reported its loan portfolio slipped 3.6 percent to 942.2 billion dollars in the second quarter, the report said.

A spokesman for the largest US bank by assets said the decrease reflected higher loan losses and lower loan demand as borrowers pay off outstanding debts.

“There were fewer opportunities to make high-quality loans because of the recession,” he said.

The 15 banks reported about 803 billion dollars in loan volume in the second quarter, up 12.7 percent from

the first quarter, The Journal said.

But nearly 60 percent of the increase in April and May came from refinancing mortgages and renewing business loans, according to the report. In contrast, new home purchases accounted for just 23 percent of all mortgage loans.

On a year-to-year basis, total loans held by the 15 big banks rose 17 percent from 3.6 trillion dollars in the second quarter of last year, the paper reported.

But the increase was skewed by the impact of acquisitions that included J.P. Morgan’s takeover of the banking operations of Washington Mutual and Wachovia’s purchase by Wells Fargo Bank, it said.

Excluding purchases, loan portfolios shrank by about 10 percent as of June 30 from a year earlier, according to the report.

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This May 24, 2009 photo shows the sign for a Wells Fargo bank in Woodbury, Minnesota. Leading US banks are slowing lending as bankers and borrowers refrain from taking risks in the uncertain economy, The Wall Street Journal reported late Sunday.

Protectionism: the dog that barked but didn’t bite?

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GENEVA - The sharp trade contraction during the economic crisis, closely matching the trend in the 1930s, has triggered widespread fears that the world could suffer a re-run of the destructive protectionism of that era.

Policy-makers have said measures to curtail imports to save jobs at home could spark a repeat of the Great Depression, and political leaders have pledged not to restrict trade even as their governments raise tariffs and subsidies.

The ghosts of U.S. Senator Smoot and Representative Hawley, whose 1930 Tariff Act prompted a wave of tit-for-tat trade retaliation that fueled the tensions leading to World War Two, stalk many a newspaper article and economic conference.

But economists are increasingly arguing that measures taken in the crisis do not herald a wave of protectionism.

“I do think that there are a number of countries that have flirted a bit with protectionism but I don’t see in many countries anything like what was happening in the 1930s and certainly not in the United States,” said Craig VanGrasstek, who teaches trade policy at Harvard and Georgetown universities.

Trade no longer plays a big part in the U.S. public debate and President Barack Obama did not

view it as an election winner, he told a meeting of the Agency for International Trade Information and Cooperation (AITIC) in Geneva on July 21.

The number of requests for anti-dumping measures — duties to compensate for unfairly priced imports — sought by U.S. businesses is likely to fall to 12 in the 2009 fiscal year ending September 30, he said. That is half the 24 requests made in fiscal 2008 and a quarter of the average in the 1980s.

The U.S. Congress has enacted some protectionism measures, such as a ban on Chinese poultry imports, now the subject of a dispute at the World Trade Organization (WTO), and reversing permission for Mexican truckers to transport goods within the United States.

But this does not represent a big increase in this kind of activity from Congress, VanGrasstek said.

“If you look at what’s happening in the United States today we have less evidence for protection now than I have seen in previous recessions,” he said.

Roberta Piermartini, one of the authors of a WTO report on trade safety valves like anti-dumping, said further increases in such measures could be expected.

But so far the number of contingency measures is running at a far lower rate than in 2000-2002 in the aftermath of the Asia crisis,

she said at the Geneva launch of the report on July 22.

Such measures are on the rise, but the rise is moderate, said Olivier Cadot, a professor of trade policy at the University of Lausanne. He noted most measures in the current crisis had been taken by developing countries against other developing countries, especially China.

One reason economists are more optimistic is that policy-makers have learnt from the errors of the 1930s, and the trading system built up after World War Two, embodied in the WTO and its binding agreements, restricts countries’ ability to raise tariffs and choke off trade.

Another reason is that trade flows, forecast by the WTO to contract a real 10 percent this year from $15.78 trillion in 2008, are already showing the first signs of recovery.

The World Bank has been one of the loudest voices warning against the dangers of protectionism.

“It’s a potential danger... and one has to watch quite carefully to make sure things don’t spin out of control,” said Richard Newfarmer, World Bank representative in Geneva.

The monitoring of trade measures by institutions like the WTO and World Bank is putting the question of protectionism high on the international agenda and has

restrained countries from taking more such measures, he told Reuters.

But Newfarmer said the world was entering a dangerous period when an incipient economic recovery is helping trade recover, so that imports pick up as jobs continue to be cut.

“That’s a potentially noxious mixture that has to be watched carefully,” he said.

The WTO believes the worst is still to come in the crisis as unemployment rises further, Deputy Director-General Alejandro Jara said at the launch of the trade measures report.

“We’ve looked at the trends but we also can tell that the pressures will still be there for some time to come, so I don’t think that in the WTO we are crying wolf or exaggerating too much.”

German firms eye brighter future: survey Agence France-Presse

BERLIN - The majority of German businesses believe the financial crisis is over and the state of Europe’s top economy will improve in the next 12 months, according to a new study to be published on Monday.

Two out of three firms in Germany see the economy brightening in 2010 with nearly eight out of 10 seeing an improvement by 2011, according to the Ernst and Young survey to appear in Monday’s edition of daily Die Welt.

Moreover, 54 percent of the businesses polled said that Germany was likely to emerge stronger after the crisis than it

was before.

The poll appears to reflect a growing optimism in Germany’s business community that the country’s worst economic downturn since 1945 will be relatively short-lived.

On Friday, a closely-watched survey by the Ifo institute, measuring the mood among German firms, rose for the fourth month running in July.

Nevertheless, the government sees Germany — one of the world’s top exporters — shrinking by a record six percent this year.

The Ernst and Young report surveyed mainly small and mediumsized firms in Germany — widely seen as the backbone of the economy.

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Denzel Washington Delighted With ‘The Taking Of Pelham 123’ Weight Gain

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Denzel Washington was delighted when movie bosses ordered him to fatten up for his latest movie role - because he thoroughly enjoyed stuffing his face with junk food.

The actor appears in The Taking of Pelham 123, alongside John Travolta, playing an overweight character - and the slim star had to gain a staggering 40 pounds. He says, “Getting there was such fun.

Milkshakes, hamburgers... middle ofthe night a little Haagen Daz. Anything I wanted just eat, eat, eat.”

The American Gangster star returned to his toned physique after shooting the film, but admits his wife quite enjoyed his fuller figure. He says, “She was OK with it, I think every wife wants their husband to be plump and fatten them up. She doesn’t eat, she cooks all this food for me, but she doesn’t it eat.”

Kate Hudson And Alex Rodriguez Confirm Romance With Public Kiss

Kate Hudson has confirmed she is dating baseball hunk Alex Rodriguez - by smooching the star in front of snappers at the New York Yankees annual picnic.

The actress has tried to keep her romance with Rodriguez quiet, but has failed to see off public interest in the relationship after she followed the sportsman to every game as his team tours the U.S. Hudson has now taken their romance public - by passionately kissing Rodriguez in front of the paparazzi on Saturday. The pair has reportedly been dating since last November, and have been pictured spending quality time together with their respective kids, Rodriguez’s daughters Ella and Natasha and Hudson’s son Ryder. Rodriguez was last year rumored to have dated Madonna following her split from Guy Ritchie.

Meanwhile Baseball player Alex Rodriguez had a furious bust-up with a pal of Kate Hudson - after she smashed up his car. A-Rod has been romantically linked to the You, Me and Dupree actress since they were spotted enjoying a romantic night out in New York earlier this month.

She was also seen cheering him on during several of his New York Yankees games, surround by close friends.

However, Rodriguez had a falling out with one of Hudson’s pals after she reportedly dented his car as she gave Hudson a ride. A source tells RadarOnline.com, “Kate Hudson’s girlfriend, the one she is seen with at Yankee games, has been driving his Suburban with Kate every morning, bright and early, to get coffee. A short time later the friend pulled around the car for Alex.

As soon as he saw the rear of the vehicle and the damage done, he had her get out of the car and started talking about her reckless driving. He was visibly upset. The crash was so bad the license plate was obscured. He was ranting and raving while she stood there Kate Hudson sheepishly.”

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Jennifer Lopez Won’t Replace Paula Abdul On ‘American Idol’ Jennifer Lopez has denied she is set to take over from Paula Abdul as a judge on American Idol - branding herself “just a fan” of the hit talent show. Rumors recently began circulating that the “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” hitmaker was being lined up to step into Abdul’s shoes as the lead female panelist after reports suggested the former singer/ choreographer had not renewed her contract a following a row over pay.

Speculation heightened after Lopez was spotted dining out with American Idol host Ryan Seacrest, who himself has just negotiated a huge pay rise for the new series.

Lopez was reportedly set to be announced as the new judge later this year in time for the eighth season of the popular singing contest.

But the star’s representative has refuted the reports, dismissing them as “completely false”. The spokesperson says, “The rumor of Jennifer Lopez throwing herself in the ring to take over for Paula Abdul is completely false. Jennifer loves Idol but just as a fan. “She just wrapped the feature film “The Back-Up Plan,” due out January 2010, and will release an album then as well.”

Giant pandas at further risk after Sichuan quake: study

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WASHINGTON - More than 60 percent of the wild giant panda population in China’s Sichuan province was affected by the powerful quake that rocked the region and killed thousands in May 2008, a study said Monday.

Ecologists also found that the massive 8.0-magnitude earthquake, which triggered huge landslides across the region’s mountainous terrain and left nearly 87,000 people dead or missing, destroyed nearly a quarter of panda habitat close to the tremor’s epicenter.

“It is probable that habitat fragmentation has separated the giant

panda population inhabiting this region, which could be as low as 35 individuals,” said Weihua Xu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the lead author of the study published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

“This kind of isolation increases their risk of extinction in the wild, due in part to a higher likelihood of

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Timberlake christens eco-friendly golf course

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This file photo taken on May 23, 2008 shows Chinese paramilitary soliders carrying a giant panda during a transfer operation at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong, a small town about 30 kilometres from the epicentre of the magnitude 8.0 earthquake, in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan. More than 60 percent of the wild giant panda population in China’s Sichuan province was affected by the powerful quake that rocked the region and killed thousands in May 2008, a study said on July 27, 2009.

Justin Timberlake celebrated the opening of his renovated, environmentally friendly golf course in style on the 10th tee — by smacking his drive 291 yards. singer and actor smiled Saturday after the tee-off, saying “nobody’s happier about this course” than he is.

Timberlake was the first to play a round at his Mirimichi golf course near Memphis, Tenn., after he spent $16 million renovating the course to make it more eco-friendly.

Timberlake drew a crowd of about 50 onlookers after starting an early round of 18 holes at 7:30 a.m. He played Saturday with his mother, stepfather and an old family friend from Tennessee. The Memphis native got the idea to buy the course from his dad back in 2007.

This image provided by Picture Group shows Justin Timberlake at the opening of the Mirimichi Golf Course, which he founded, on Friday July 24, 2009, in Memphis, Tenn.

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inbreeding.”

Sichuan is designated as one of 25 global biodiversity conservation hotspots. The province, which contains more than half of the Earth’s wild giant panda population, is home to over 12,000 plan species and 1,122 vertebrate species, noted Xu. The researchers’ analyses — which involved satellite images taken before and after the quake in the South Minshan region close to the earthquake’s center — revealed that over 354 kilometers (220 miles), or 23 percent, of the pandas’ habitat had become bare land.

Much of the remaining habitat areas were also found to have been fragmented into smaller, disconnected patches, which Xu said was just as harmful as the habitat being destroyed.

To produce its estimates, the study had used criteria that make forests suitable for pandas, such as the presence of bamboo — the pandas’ main food source — elevation and slope incline.

In order to encourage pandas to move between the disconnected patches, the study recommended that specially protected corridors be built and that some areas outside of nature reserves also be protected.

The earthquake caused twice more damage to panda habitat outside than inside the reserves. The researchers also proposed that panda habitat be taken into consideration during the relocation of affected towns after the quake.

“It is vital to the survival of this species that measures are taken to protect panda habitat outside nature reserves,” Xu said.

“Giant pandas in this region are more vulnerable than ever to human disturbance, including post-earthquake reconstruction and tourism.

When coupled with these increasing human activities, natural disasters create unprecedented challenges for biodiversity conservation.”

Some 600 giant pandas are still living in the wild, according to estimates.

Seven dead in Chechnya suicide bombing Agence France-Presse

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GROZNY, Russia - Seven people died and four others were wounded Sunday in a suicide attack in Russia’s turbulent southern mountain region of Chechnya, officials said.

Four Chechen police officers as well as a Georgian and a Turkish man died along with the suicide bomber in the capital Grozny, when the attacker detonated a bomb outside a concert hall around 5:00 pm (1300 GMT), Mariam Nalayeva, the spokeswoman for the investigators’ office, told AFP.

The Turkish national was working in the Caucasus republic’s building industry, she said, but did not give details about the other civilian.

The identity of the suicide bomber was not immediately known. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said the attack showed a violent campaign waged against Russian rule by Islamist rebels was in its “death throes.”

The Kremlin-backed leader told news agency Interfax: “It is an attempt to make our forces pull back from the area where a special operation is being carried out, an at-

tempt to make us stop working to destroy the rebels.”

“We will not stop until we have eliminated all the rebels who target peaceful citizens, the security forces, the military and members of religious orders.”

Chechnya has been the site of several bloody attacks since April when Moscow ended its controversial “anti-terror operation” which lasted more than a decade.

The North Caucasus republics of Ingushetia and Dagestan, which border Chechnya, are also regularly rocked by militant attacks.

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Saudi Arabia reports first death from swine flu Agence France-Presse

RIYADH - A Saudi man has died after being struck down by swine flu, the first death from the disease in the kingdom, the health ministry said on Monday.

The 30-year-old man was admitted to a private hospital in Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday with a fever and pneumonia. He died on Saturday from A(H1N1) despite the application of antibiotics and the anti-flu drug Tamiflu, the ministry said.

The number of cases in Saudi Arabia now tops 300, adding to worries over the expected influx of some two million foreigners undertaking the hajj pilgrimage to the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina later this year.

At an emergency meeting in

Cairo last week, Arab health ministers recommended that children under 12 and people over 65 be banned from the hajj this year to reduce the risk.

Saudi health ministry spokesman Khaled Marghlani said on Saturday that Riyadh was likely to adopt this measure, and that it would press for pilgrims to be vaccinated against A(H1N1) if a vaccine is proven and available ahead of the hajj period, beginning in November.

He added that the age restrictions would not affect the country quotas set for the number of people going on the hajj.

“This will not touch on the quotas, the percentage of pilgrims” allocated to each country, he told AFP. “When we implement the new law, it will stay as it is.”

Swiss Army knife morphs with age Former rival and now subsidiary Wenger recently added the folding SCHWYZ - A century and a nail clipper to the nail file, while quarter after a master cutler set out London’s Bond Street, New York’s to supply Swiss soldiers with a sur- Soho and Tokyo’s Ginza rival army vival tool, the iconic Swiss Army barracks around the world as outknife still adjusts gun sights, cuts lets.

Victorinox president Carl cheese and opens cans.

But deep in Switzerland’s rural Elsener is eyeing a BluetoothAlpine heartland, Karl Elsener’s equipped remote controller for descendants at Victorinox, the last business presentations next, and firm in the country that still makes even fingerprint ID to secure data the pocket knives, have been forced stored on the computer memory key. to adapt to the urban jungle.

“We always try to be very close Apart from the hallmark blades, the corkscrew — originally sold to to the market and get new ideas,” officers only — tweezers, and said Elsener junior, great-grandson screwdrivers, the nowadays 100- of the company’s founder.

Although the modern discourse strong range includes a “cyber tool” to fix computers, a USB key and a is imbued with marketing speak, Elsener says the family firm has blunt-tipped children’s knife. poured “a lot of soul” for more than 125 years into developing the legendary red tool.

“The Swiss Army knife became the reliable companion for many expeditions, to the North Pole, the South Pole, in the Amazon, to Mount Everest, even official equipment of the space shuttle crews,” said Elsener with pride.

“Powerful presidents have been using the Swiss Army knife as a gift for their visitors to the White House,” he added, also recalling that it was once used to perform an in-flight emergency tracheotomy high above the Philippines.

An exhibition at the Swiss National Museum in Schwyz, near the firm’s headquarters, retraces the AFP PHOTO / Nicholas RATZENBOECK Modern Swiss Army Knifes line up un- evolution of pocket knives der the portrait founder Karl Elsener dur- “from tool to icon”, revealing an exhibition at the Swiss Historic ing the far more rural flavour of the early models. museum in Schwyz on May 14, 2009.

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More than 300,000 Israeli settlers in West Bank: report Agence France-Presse

JERUSALEM - The number of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank now stands at more than 300,000 people, according to government figures published by the Haaretz newspaper on Monday.

As of June 30, there were 304,569 settlers living in the Palestinian territory, an increase of 2.3 percent since the start of the year, it said.

The issue of settlements is one of the main stumbling blocks in the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

The administration of US Presi-

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TOKYO - Opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama, tipped to become prime minister in elections next month, said Monday Japan was “at a historic turning point” as he outlined his party’s plans to remake the nation.

“We are at a historic turning point, not only in the sense that we will end the long-running LDP (Liberal Democratic Party) government,” said Hatoyama.

A government change would also “make up for two lost decades” economically and end the rising in-

fluence of state bureaucrats that started when Japan opened its doors to the outside world in the late 19th century, he said.

“We intend to make the people the main players in politics,” added the head of the biggest opposition group, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which has been leading in opinion polls ahead of the August 30 lower house election.

The business-friendly LDP, led by unpopular Prime Minister Taro Aso, has governed Japan continuously since the conservative party’s foundation in 1955, except for one 10-month stretch in the early 1990s.

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Yukio Hatoyama.

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British actress Joanna Lumley, left, presents a gift to Nepal’s Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, at his office in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, July, 27, 2009. Lumley arrived Sunday on her first visit to the Himalayan nation which is home to the Gurkha soldiers who have for centuries fought for the British army.

Nepal PM thanks British actress for Gurkha campaign Agence France-Presse

KATHMANDU - Nepal’s prime minister on Monday thanked Joanna Lumley for bringing “justice” to Gurkha soldiers who served in the British army, as the glamorous actress was feted on her visit to the country.

Madhav Kumar Nepal said all Nepalese people recognised the achievements of the 63-year-old star, who spearheaded a successful campaign for Gurkha veterans and their families to be allowed to settle in Britain.

“I think the Gurkhas have got justice, whether complete or just to some extent I cannot see,” he told journalists after meeting Lumley, famous for her role in the television show “Absolutely Fabulous”.

“We are all rejoicing over what she has achieved.”

Lumley, who arrived in Nepal to a rapturous welcome on Sunday, presented the prime minister with a scarf from Scotland, saying she had heard that the winters were cold in Nepal.

“We are just so proud to be here and to have it recognised at such a high level,” she told journalists after the meeting.

“It’s just such a tremendous privilege to be here today consoli-

dating the bond (between Britain and Nepal).”

Later Monday, Lumley will meet the country’s president and address a rally at Kathmandu City Hall before laying a wreath at a Gurkha memorial inside the British embassy here.

The blonde actress has been hailed as a heroine by the Nepalese former fighters, who are expected to turn out in their thousands to greet her as she travels around the country this week.

Crowds of supporters waited hours at Kathmandu airport on Sunday, braving the monsoon rain and carrying banners that read “Welcome Joanna, daughter of Nepal” and “Gurkha heroes welcome our British heroes”.

Organisers of her trip said some Gurkha veterans living in remote areas have already started walking to the three towns she is set to visit while in Nepal, where many people live in rural villages with no road access.

She is accompanied by her family and by British local government representative Peter Carroll, who in 2007 persuaded her to join the “Gurkha Justice” campaign that he started.

She has said that her father, a British major in the 6th Gurkha Rifles during World War II, would have been “overwhelmed with shame and fury” at Britain’s treatment of Gurkha veterans.

The British government announced in May that all Gurkha veterans who had served at least four years in the army could apply for residency after a climbdown in the face of Lumley’s campaign.

Previously, only those who retired after 1997 had been eligible to apply. The Indian-born actress, renowned as the cocaine-snorting fashionista Patsy in the hit comedy “Absolutely Fabulous”, had become a rallying voice for the men she called the “bravest of the brave”.

The Gurkhas have been part of the British army for almost 200 years and more than 45,000 have died in British uniform. Around 3,500 currently serve in the British army, including in Afghanistan.

Opposition set to break Iraqi Kurd stranglehold Agence France-Presse

ARBIL - Iraqi authorities are set on Monday to release preliminary results from weekend elections in the automomous Kurdish region after a new opposition party claimed a major breakthrough.

The Goran (Change) list said it had won more than a quarter of seats in the regional Kurdish parliament

in Saturday’s legislative election, raising the prospect of a strong opposition for the first time.

The vote was held at a key time in Iraq’s transition as regional leaders are locked in a bitter dispute with Baghdad over land and oil, while local voters also voiced their increasing concerned about corruption.

Incumbent regional president Massud Barzani won 70 percent of the

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GM crop trials start again in Britain in ‘secret’: report

dent Barack Obama, who took office in January, has repeatedly pressed Israel to halt all settlement activity as part of its efforts to revive the stalled peace process.

Hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far refused to heed the calls, sending tensions between the two allies rising to levels unseen in years.

The new figures were published amid a US diplomatic push that will see three senior officials — Defence Secretary Robert Gates, Middle East envoy George Mitchell and National Security Advisor James Jones — hold talks in Israel this week.

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vote in a simultaneous presidential poll pitting him against four other candidates, presidential cabinet chief Fuad Hussein said on Sunday.

A joint list uniting Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani won 60 percent of ballots cast in the parliamentary vote, Hussein said.

The two parties have dominated

Iraqi Kurdish politics for half a century, first as rebels and then as the region’s effective rulers in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf war over Saddam Hussein’s invasion of neighbouring Kuwait.

The results would give the KDPPUK list around 55 seats in the 111seat parliament, down from 78 seats in the outgoing assembly elected in 2005.

A senior Goran official told AFP

that his party would win 28 seats, making it the first credible opposition to the longstanding KDP-PUK dominance in the rugged mountainous north of Iraq.

Nearly 80 percent of the region’s 2.5 million voters turned out on Saturday for what election officials trumpeted as a transparent poll. Final results are not due for several days, as ballots must be transported to Baghdad for an official count.

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The South Pacific pounding the coastline of Funafuti Atoll. Developed countries need to act urgently to help vulnerable Pacific island nations cope with climate change, international aid group Oxfam said

Pacific needs help to combat climate change: Oxfam Agence France - Presse

WELLINGTON – Developed countries need to act urgently to help vulnerable Pacific island nations cope with climate change, international aid group Oxfam said Monday. By the year 2050, about 75 million people could be forced to leave their homes due to climate change in the Asia-Pacific region, the Oxfam report said.

“Climate change has the potential to affect almost every issue linked to poverty and development in the Pacific,” said Oxfam New Zealand executive director Barry Coates. Without immediate action 50 years of development gains in poor countries will be permanently lost,” he said.

Coral atolls are particularly vulnerable, including countries such as Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, which consist solely of atolls that often rise only two to three metres (six to nine feet) above sea level. Climate change is expected to worsen storm surges, cyclones and

high tides. “Scientists have also projected an increase in diseases such as malaria and dengue fever, together with significant soil and coastal erosion as a result of climate change,” Oxfam said.

Unless wealthy, developed countries like Australia and New Zealand take urgent action to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, some island nations in the Pacific could become uninhabitable, Oxfam said. Oxfam estimated that around 150 billion US dollars would be needed every year to fund adaptation and emissions reductions in devel-

oping countries on top of existing aid.

Wealthy, polluting countries must reduce their emissions by at least 40 percent by 2020, and at least 95 percent by 2050 to prevent potentially catastrophic climate change, Oxfam said. The report also said Australia and New Zealand had to be prepared to take refugees from Pacific islands.

Australia, New Zealand and other developed countries are expected to face renewed calls for more help over climate change from island countries when the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum meets in Cairns, Australia next week.

LONDON – Genetically modified crops are being grown in Britain for the first time in 12 months after controversial trials were resumed without alerting the public, a newspaper reported Monday.

Cultivation of a field of potatoes designed to be resistant to pests was abandoned more than a year ago when environmental protesters ripped up the crop, the Daily Telegraph said.

But, without alerting the public, the project near Tadcaster in northern England has been restarted, prompting warnings from green groups that local farms and residents could be put at risk, the newspaper said. One group accused the government of trying to “slip it under the radar.” The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the potatoes would be grown in a safe environment, where there is no risk of contamination. They would not be used for human or animal

consumption, it said.

The trial, run by Leeds University, is looking at potatoes that are resistant to a parasite worm that costs British farmers millions of pounds a year in lost and damaged crops. Genetically-modified crops have a gene, or genes, inserted into them in the lab so that they acquire traits that are useful to farmers.

They are widely grown in North America, South America and China.

But in Europe they have run into fierce resistance, led by green groups who say the crops carry risks through cross-pollination, potentially creating “super-weeds” that are impervious to herbicides.

Only a handful of genetically modified crops have been approved for cultivation in the European Union, but of them only MON810, approved in 1998, is so far being grown. France this month rejected a report by the European Union’s food safety watchdog that said a controversial strain of geneticallymodified corn was safe.

Photo illustration of potatoes.

Genetically modified crops are being grown in Britain for the first time in 12 months after controversial trials were resumed without alerting the public, a newspaper reported Monday.

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What Not to Wear to Work Many professional women are guilty of multiple fashion faux pas without realizing it, and their lack of judgment can sometimes lead to being passed over for a job or promotion. Dressing for success means business, not pleasure. Read on for our must-avoids.

Too much cleavage: Showing too much cleavage at work is the No. 1 fashion faux pas on our list. Studies show that women who dress in sexy attire in a professional environment are more often passed over for promotions than women who dress

more conservatively. Bottom line: If you want to get ahead, ditch the lowcut top.

Too-short skirt: Wearing a micromini may send the message that you’re trying to compensate for skills you lack in other areas. Also, the knee is a visual anchor, says Barbara Pachter, an etiquette expert.

People’s attention will be drawn downward when they approach you, instead of toward your face where it should be. Save your minis for after office hours and, while it doesn’t need to be knee length, put on a skirt

that you can sit down in without showing too much thigh.

See-through clothes: Summer materials such as organza and liquid jersey look and feel cool and pretty, but in the light of a staff meeting, they can reveal the outlines of your legs — and much more. The best solution is to check out your ensemble in a bright, naturally lit room before leaving for work. Always wear transparent blouses over camis or under jackets; transparent dresses and skirts should be layered over a slip or leggings. Ginger Burr

of Total Image Consultants notes that buying clothes with lining — especially white pants and skirts — is always a safe choice.

Over-accessorizing: A rule of thumb when it comes to accessories in the workplace: Less is more. Costume jewelry, when worn in bulk, tends to look tacky. The real thing, on the other hand, can come off as gaudy. A boardroom-ready look includes one show stopper plus subtle accessories. That means if you’re going to put on a chunky beaded necklace, stick to minimal earrings

and arm candy.

Bringing the beach into the office: Sundresses, spaghetti straps, flip-flops. Nothing makes you look less professional than coming to the office like you’re dressed for the beach. Having a cover-up like a pashmina, neutral blazer or cardigan on hand will always make an outfit look more professional. Truth be told, however, these summer staples are best avoided at the office. Trade your tank top for a silk shell and Havaianas for backless mules.

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Ginepri crowns comeback with Indianapolis title

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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana - Robby Ginepri, who was laid low by a burst appendix earlier this year, won his second Indianapolis title on Sunday with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over third seeded compatriot Sam Querrey.

“I haven’t been to final in four years (at Indy). “You question if you can play at this level any more, it creeps into back of mind. But this is a true confidence boost for the summer. I’ll go to LA from Monday very excited.

I feel fit and ready to fight some more. My ranking will move up and I can get into more tournaments, maybe even a Masters series in Asia and Europe this autumn.”

The title was Ginepri’s third after Indy 2005 and Newport 2003.

He broke serve twice in a 26-minute opening set, then secured the upset by coming back from 40-0 down in the 11th game of the second.

“When I won here in 2005 I was about the same ranking,” said Ginepri. “But this one has to be more special as I really never expected it I got the job done. I really had no expectations but I had no pressure either. It’s funny how things work out.”

Querrey said admitted he was nervous and his usually reliable big serve let him down. “I didn’t have a rhythm on serve today, it was not there,” he said. “He’s such good returner, he puts a lot of pressure on you. Robby played well and had very few unforced errors.”

TAIPEI - Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou on Monday received a congratulatory message from his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao after being elected leader of the island’s ruling Kuomintang, party officials said.

Outgoing KMT chairman Wu Poh-hsiung said party officials would reveal the contents of the brief message from Hu later in the day.

Analysts say Ma’s election as party leader on Sunday could pave the way for a first meeting between the presidents of Taiwan and China.

Wu met China’s Hu on the mainland last year in the highAP Photo/Al Grillo

Gov. Sean Parnell, second left goes to hug his wife Sandy, right, holding the Bible after he was sworn in as governor by Alaska Supreme Court Justice Daniel Winfee, left, during a ceremony in Fairbanks, Alaska Sunday, July 26, 2009, where Gov. Sarah Palin stepped down and handed over power to Parnell. Former Gov. Sarah Palin, center back, watches with her daughter Piper, left, back, and husband Todd, right back.

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Sam Querrey, of the United States, returns a shot against countryman Robby Ginepri in the finals of the Indianapolis Tennis Championships in Indianapolis, Sunday, July 26, 2009. Ginepri won 6-2, 6-4.

Rooney thirsty for goals as United return to Europe Agence France - Prese

MANCHESTER - Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney says he is thirsty for goals in the Premier League season starting on August 15, as the United squad prepare in Germany for the pre-season Audi Cup. The Reds’ striker is relishing being even more in the spotlight now his attack partner Cristiano Ronaldo has left for Real Nadrid and aims to increase his goal scoring rate above the 20 he bagged in the league last season: “I have always said I would like to score more goals than the previous season so that is what I am aiming for again this time,” he told www.manutd.com as the team returned to Europe after their Asian tour. If I can do that I will be really happy,” said the 23-year-old who was among the scorers in an eight-goal romp

over China’s Hanzhou Greentown on Sunday.

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson says he has “strong options” up front going into the new Premier League season.

New signing Michael Owen netted a brace in the clash against Hangzhou to add to two goals in Malaysia. Ferguson, chasing a record fourth consecutive Premier League crown, paired Owen and Dimitar Berbatov from the start for the first time in China and both found the net in the opening period.

“We didn’t use Macheda tonight but I think it gives us strong options,” he said. “I think that Macheda’s development obviously as we saw the other night is good for a 17year-old boy and he’s got the physical attributes to go with it.” With the experience of Berbatov and Owen, and the talent of Rooney, “I think we’re not too bad,” Ferguson said.

Manchester United’s Michael Owen, right, and Wayne Rooney, left, run with their teammates during a soccer training session in Hangzhou, China, Saturday, July 25, 2009.

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Roberts wins second Senior British Open Agence France - Presse

LONDON - America’s Loren Roberts won his second Senior British Open on Sunday when he edged Mark McNulty and Fred Funk in a play-off at Sunningdale. The three had finished the four rounds locked on 12 under par before Funk, the halfway leader, was eliminated at the first extra hole when he could only make par while Roberts and McNulty both made birdies.

Roberts and McNulty couldn’t be separated at the second hole. At the third extra hole, McNulty fired his tee shot into the bushes and had to take a penalty for an unplayable lie. With Roberts down the middle McNulty was struggling and played a five iron for his third shot which ran over the back of the green.

Roberts found the green, 20 feet to the right of the flag and with McNulty unable to hole his long par putt, Roberts had two putts to win. The American rolled the putt up to a few inches to claim the title for the second time after his win in 2006.

“When I won back in ’06 it was probably the biggest thrill of my life,” said Roberts.

“Then to come here, to a golf course I’ve never seen before, absolutely fell in love with this golf course. To be able to pull it out on the back nine is the culmination of a lot of hard work.” Earlier McNulty’s round of 64 had given him the clubhouse lead.

His inward 31 included a hat-trick of birdies from the 13th but it could have been even better - down the closing straight McNulty had birdie putts of less than 10 feet on 17 and 18 and both missed the hole by the smallest of fractions. “I really thought I hit good putts,

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Loren Roberts of the US tees off on the first play off hole after the final round of the Senior British Open Championship at the Sunningdale golf course, in Sunningdale, England, Sunday, July 26, 2009. both of them,” he said. “The last one I thought was going to go in and the last one slowed down and seemed to start turning. Why, I don’t know.

“I gave it all I had, and just one bad shot.

That’s what happens.” American Funk, who had set record low 18 and 36-hole scores for the event, raced out the blocks to turn in 32, but the 53-year-old parred all his holes on the back nine. It just wasn’t enough. It’s disappointing because I played good,” said Funk.

Overnight leader Greg Norman collapsed to a one-over 71 and fell out of contention to a tie for sixth. Tom Watson continued his fine form with a three-under-par 67 to finish seven under overall, enough for a share of eighth place.

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The 62-minute win repeated the triumph which Ginepri enjoyed four years ago and was the third title of his career. Ginepri, who missed two months of the season and lost nearly 15 kilograms in weight following appendix surgery, had not reached a semi-final before this week since Las Vegas in March, 2008.

Querrey has now lost in finals in his last two events after going down a fortnight ago on grass in Newport to Rajeev Ram. Ginepri out-aced the usually bighitting Querrey, firing four aces and 13 winners while Querrey dropped nine costly double faults.

“This is a special place for me,” said Ginepri after the sixth all-American Indy final in two decades since the event switched to hardcourt. “I’ve not been in a final for a long time and to win again here is great.” After playing only 21 matches this season, he was unsure of his chances of getting back into the top 20 where he stood in 2005 after winning Indy for the first time.

“Without results, you start questioning your game,” he said.

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Palin’s future mysterious as Alaska governor says goodbye Agence France-Presse

ANCHORAGE - With a challenge to the media and Washington, and a list of her achievements for the state, Sarah Palin has stepped down as Alaska governor, but gave few clues about where she is headed.

“It is because I love Alaska this much, sir, that I feel it is my duty to avoid the unproductive, typical politics-as-usual lame duck session in one’s last year in office,” said Palin, who was the state’s youngest governor and first female governor.

“With this decision now I will be able to fight even harder for you, for what is right and for truth. And I have never felt you need a title to do all that,” Palin told a cheering crowd at a state picnic.

But her farewell address in Fairbanks, Alaska, Sunday, less than a month after she abruptly announced her resignation on July 3, provided little insight into her plans upon leaving office.

In the weeks since her shock announcement, she has citing a variety of reasons for the decision, including what she said were financial constraints caused by a slew of lawsuits and ethics complaints she has fought.

The former vice presidential candidate, who shot to national and international prominence after Senator John McCain picked her as his running mate last year, is expected to write a book.

Palin, 45, has also said she will travel the country campaigning for candidates who share her political ideology.

Her speech on Sunday included a

recap of her time as governor and struck many of her customary notes, including praise for her fellow Alaskans and the military.

She also issued challenges to the media, who she told to “quit making things up,” and to those she said are “hellbent, maybe, on tearing down our nation.”

To Alaskans, she issued a warning: “Stiffen your spine to do what is right for Alaska when the pressure mounts.”

“We can resist enslavement to big central government that crushes hope and opportunity. Be wary of accepting government largesse... Melting into Washington’s powerful caretaking arms will just suck incentive to work hard and chart our own course right out of us.”

But Palin’s own course remains the biggest unanswered question. She has been touted as a possible adversary for President Barack Obama in 2012, but she has also been plagued by ethics probes, legal bills, and doubts about her ability to govern.

And even her husband dodged the question when he was asked over the weekend about her plans for the future.

“We’ll play it by ear,” said Todd Palin told Politico, an Internet newspaper, in a brief interview. “We’ll take a little breather and go from there.”

Palin says she has run up more than half a million dollars in legal fees stemming from the two dozen ethics complaints against her, which she calls “political absurdity.”

Her supporters set up a fund to help cover the legal costs, but an independent investigator’s preliminary report found the fund itself may have constituted a state ethics law violation, according to Alaska news reports.

Her popularity, while unquestioned among a portion of Republican voters, is less assured in the larger electorate, with 53 percent of Americans saying they have an unfavorable view of Palin, in a recent poll.

Only 40 percent see her in positive terms — her lowest approval rating since McCain tapped her as his running mate, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Friday.

Additionally, 57 percent of poll respondents said she does not understand complex issues, with just 37 percent saying she does.

And despite her often tough rhetoric, 54 percent told the pollsters the outgoing Alaska governor was not a strong leader, while only 40 percent said that she was.

Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell was sworn in as governor at Palin’s departure ceremony.

est-level contact since the two sides split in 1949 after a civil war.

Ma previously headed the party between July 2005 and February 2007, when he resigned after being indicted for allegedly misusing his expense funds as mayor of Taipei. He was cleared of the charges before taking office last year.

Ties with China have improved dramatically since Ma came to power, with the launch of regular direct flights and the development of closer trade links.

Beijing still regards Taiwan as part of its territory awaiting reunification by force if necessary although the island has governed itself since 1949.

‘Hezbollah’ plotters face trial in Egypt security court Agence France-Presse

CAIRO - Egypt has decided on a security court trial for 26 men accused of plotting attacks on tourist resorts and on ships in the Suez Canal on behalf of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the public prosecutor said on Sunday.

Charges include conspiracy to murder, spying for a foreign organisation with the intent of conducting terrorist attacks and weapons possession, prosecutor Abdel Magid Mahmud said in a statement.

State security courts were set up under Egypt’s emergency laws and have been in place since 1981 and their verdicts are final. The date of the trial has yet to be set.

Four of the accused men are on the run, including Lebanese alleged mastermind Mohammed Qubyan who is believed to have left Egypt. The others are hiding in the Sinai Peninsula’s mountains, a security official said.

The prosecution says the men have confessed to buying rifles, explosives and rocket propelled grenades and to storing bags and belts filled with powerful plastic explosives.

They also confessed to building tunnels to Gaza, monitoring tourist resorts in the Sinai and setting up front businesses, state news agency MENA reported.

The prosecutor said in April that 49 men were suspected of plotting attacks against Sinai tourist resorts and ships in the Suez Canal on the orders of the militant Shiite group Hezbollah.

The suspects include two Lebanese alleged Hezbollah ringleaders, five Palestinians, a Sudanese man and Egyptians.

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah admitted in April that one of the captured men,

Mohammed Yusef Mansur, identified as Sami Shihab, was a Hezbollah agent tasked with smuggling weapons to militants in Gaza.

Defence lawyer Montasser elZayyat complained that the defendants will be unable to appeal the verdicts.

“They have no right to appeal.

Even if they are found innocent the President of Egypt can still overrule the court’s decision,” Zayyat told AFP. Zayyat said the defendants had been tortured in detention and insisted that any confessions used as evidence in court should be dismissed.

Security officials said the defendants were examined by a doctor who found no evidence that they had been physically abused. Rights groups say torture is routine in Egypt.

Hezbollah, a formidable guerrila group and political party formed after Israel occupied Lebanon in 1982, has limited its attacks in the Middle East to Israel and Lebanon, from which Israel withdrew in 2000.

It fought a month-long war with Israel in 2006 that killed 1,200 Lebanese and more than 160 Israelis.

The arrests led to a war of words between Sunni Egypt and Hezbollah’s Shiite Iranian backers, with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit accusing Iran of using Hezbollah to gain a foothold in Egypt.

The alleged plot was one of three that Egyptian security services say they have disrupted since February, when a pipe bomb left under a concrete bench in a Cairo bazaar killed a French tourist.

Security officials said they have arrested members of an Al-Qaeda cell that carried out that attack.

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Sarkozy to leave hospital after jogging collapse Agence France-Presse

PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy was due to leave hospital on Monday after collapsing while jogging, as the French leader’s aides scrambled to defend his image as a man of action.

Ma Ying-jeou TAIPEI - Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou is elected chairman of the ruling Nationalist Party, a position that will shore up his control over the pace of reconciliation and economic cooperation with rival China.

Opposition leader YANGON, Myanmar - The trial of Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi enters its final phase, with the prosecution scheduled to deliver its closing arguments, a government official says.

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The 54-year-old was whisked to hospital by helicopter Sunday after he fainted while jogging in the wooded parkland around the Versailles Palace near his weekend retreat outside Paris.

Sarkozy’s supermodel wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy raced to his side on a police motorbike, a witness said, but doctors pronounced his illness a minor nervous complaint brought on by effort and predicted a full recovery.

He was expected to leave the Val de Grace military hospital later Monday.

Around 30 journalists were gathered at metal barricades outside the building, sharpshooters were posted on the roof and government cars with tinted windows were coming and going regularly.

In the meantime, Sarkozy’s supporters were furiously working the media to protect his reputation as a dynamic leader.

“The news from the doctors is good. He’ll be out today,” promised Patrick Devedjian, the minister charged with overseeing Sarkozy’s plan to revive the failing French economy, on RTL radio.

“It’s not in his nature to hold himself back. He puts it like this: ‘Sometimes people criticise me, saying I do too much. Me, I think I don’t do enough’,” he added.

“He takes a lot onto himself. He’s hyperactive, everyone can see that.”

Officials said Sunday that Sarkozy had suffered a vasvagal syncope — a nerve condition in which exhaustion and dehydration can lead to a loss of blood pressure — as he ran under a blazing summer sun.

The condition is not considered dangerous and most patients make a full recovery, and the president’s entourage were keen to point out that he

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, escorted by his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, leaves the Val-de-Grace military hospital, in Paris Monday, July 27, 2009. the risk would become political.”

And Jean-Claude Kiefer of Dernieres Nouvelles d’Alsace said the incident showed the risks of concentrating so much power in the hands of one leader.

“The jog of Sunday July 26 in Versailles park should not be without consequences,” he urged, calling for France to re-examine its constitution.

Sarkozy’s office promised an official update on the president’s health when he leaves hospital later Monday.

Protest in Philippines ahead of Arroyo speech Agence France-Presse

KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian immigration official is charged with selling an illegal immigrant from Myanmar to human traffickers at the country’s border with Thailand, his lawyer says.

never lost consciousness despite 45 minutes of hard physical exercise.

“The doctors are taking about an illness brought on by excess effort,” a source in Sarkozy’s office told AFP. But, while the president is likely to make a full physical recovery and quickly resume his gruelling schedule, there may be more lasting damage to his carefully crafted image as a young, thrusting leader.

Former president Francois Mitterrand left office aged 78 and concealed a case of prostrate cancer for more than a decade. Sarkozy’s predecessor Jacques Chirac left office aged 76 and once spent a week in hospital.

By contrast to his often frail seeming forebears, Sarkozy has played up his vigour, and is regularly photographed jogging and cycling in his trademark NYPD T-shirt, sometimes with famous sportsmen.

While running for office he promised to make his annual health checkups public, although in fact he only did so once and was last year caught out for having concealed minor throat surgery from the public.

So Sunday’s incident in the woods may have political consequences.

Writing in the regional newspaper Charente Libre, Dominique Garraud said voters have no way of knowing if this was Sarkozy’s first medical problem.

“No-one can know for sure, as long as transparency about the president’s health remains a taboo,” he argued.

Patrice Chabanet of the Journal de la HauteMarne urged the president to ease up: “Nicolas Sarkozy can no longer allow himself to push his limits, and to expose himself to a new accident. Then

MANILA - Hundreds of protesters marched on the Philippines Congress Monday as President Gloria Arroyo prepared to defend her record in her last state of the nation address before elections next year.

Arroyo, who came to power in 2001 following the ouster of Joseph Estrada, was expected to use the speech to outline her accomplishments during her tumultuous tenure, which has been marked by scandal and failed coup attempts.

Activists waving red flags and

anti-Arroyo banners began their march before dawn to the congress building, as riot police erected barbed wire barricades and blocked access roads with trucks and shipping containers.

Thousands of riot police, armed with shields and truncheons, were ferried into the capital Manila by trucks and bomb-sniffing dogs checked the building for explosives ahead of Arroyo’s speech, due to begin at 0700 GMT. Police have said they expect about 25,000 protesters to convene at the Congress. Schools in the capital were shut down.

Critics charge Arroyo, whose term expires next year, is seeking to amend the constitution so that she can remain in power. They have also accused her of cheating to win the 2004 presidential election.

The Philippines leader, plagued by a series of corruption allegations against her and his political allies, has survived several impeachment attempts.

She has surrounded herself with dozens of retired police and military generals who occupy senior government posts.

In her first state of the nation ad-

dress, Arroyo outlined her vision for the Philippines based on employment, education, housing and food security for all Filipinos.

In subsequent addresses, she promised to win the fight against poverty, eradicate corruption and predicted the Philippines will join the ranks of the world’s rich countries within 20 years.

But her government has produced very little to back up those promises, with poverty on the rise in the country of 92 million people and the economy propped up by billions of dollars sent home

by Filipino workers overseas.

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Two Goals from Milito, Inter Defeataed Milan Associated Press Writer

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – They were 3,800 miles from foggy San Siro, and that’s not all that was different for Inter Milan and AC Milan when they met outside of Italy for just the third time in 101 years. “Certainly the focus will be on league play,” Inter striker Diego Milito said Sunday after leading the Italian League champions to a 2-0 victory over AC Milan in an exhibition known as the World Football Challenge. “But I want to help the team do well, and to honor the shirt that wearing every time I put it on.”

The crowd of 42,531 leaned toward AC Milan, and the fans were quieted in the fourth minute when Milito chased the ball down to the left of the goal and left-footed it off goalkeeper Zeljko Kalac and inside the near post. He gave Inter a 2-0 lead in the 75th minute on a 2-on-1 break with Dejan Stankovic, who passed to Milito for a shot that bounced off and over the keeper into the net.

The clubs last played outside of Italy when they met at Yankee Stadium in 1969; before that, it was a match in Chiasso, Switzerland, in 1908.

“For me, there’s no such thing as a friendly game,” said defender Oguchi Onyewu, the first American ever to play for Milan. “I don’t go out there hoping to lose, or expecting to lose. I go out there trying to give it my all.”

Milan and Chelsea sold out the 71,000-seat home stadium of the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens on Friday night. But Sunday’s match on a warm New England afternoon was played with the upper deck half-closed and the lower bowl empty at one end because the seats were obstructed by the enormous stage for Tuesday night’s AC/DC concert. (Also obstructed was the press box, forcing the media to be relocated into luxury suites.)

But Sunday’s crowd wasn’t concerned

about the headbanging of AC/DC as much as the head-passing of AC Milan. And the home stadium of NFL genius Bill Belichick, who guided the New England Patriots to an 18-0 record before losing the 2008 Super Bowl, proved to be a fitting host for Inter coach Jose Mourinho, the self-proclaimed “Special One” who guided Inter to its fourth straight Italian Serie A title after losing in the first knockout round of the Champions League.

Meanwhile Diego Milito feels proud of his two goals. “A striker always likes scoring, even if it’s in a friendly match,” said the Argentine, “but today’s was still a derby and from my celebration you could see how happy I was to have given my contribution on the pitch. It’s easy to play in this Inter. It’s the merit of the group, of the great champions who have given us newcomers a very warm welcome and have made us feel important since day one.”

In Inter’s next matches Milito could have a new team-mate who shares his ‘habit’ of scoring. “Eto’o is a great striker who has lived many experiences,” said Diego. “He is very fast and he will make a great contribution to the team. As for me, I will always try to adapt to my strike partner when I’m on the pitch.”

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Inter Milan’s Paolo Orlandoni (22) celebrates his goal in front of AC Milan goalie Zeljko Kalacin, left, and Thiago Silva in the first half of a World Football Challenge soccer match, Sunday, July 26, 2009, in Foxborough, Mass.

I’m here to win the Champions Zlantan wanted to leave, says Moratti Legaue, says Eto’o Agence France - Presse

ROME - Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti has explained his reason for selling Zlatan Ibrahimovic, claiming the Swede wanted to join Barcelona. Ibrahimovic has been Inter’s best player since joining the club in 2006 and many fans were dismayed that the Italian champions would let the top goalscorer in last season’s Serie A leave the club.

But in return Inter have signed Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o, brought Alexander Hleb in on loan and scooped 50 million euros from Barca.

And Moratti insists that it was Ibrahimovic’s own wish to go. “Several times over the last few months he expressed his desire to change clubs,” he told Monday’s Gazzetta dello Sport.

“He wasn’t forced, he had said that he saw his career developping elsewhere. We’re talking about someone rather indifferent on a sentimental level, a professional.” Last week Inter coach Jose Mourinho described this deal as the transfer of the summer, claiming that Eto’o is as good as Ibrahimovic and that the Italians had done well to

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ROME - Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o arrived in Milan on Monday ahead of his Inter Milan medical and stated he wants to win the Champions League. Eto’o has twice already been on a Champions League winning team with Barcelona, scoring against Arsenal in the 2006 final in a 2-1 victory and again against Manchester United in May in a 2-0 success.

“I’m very happy to be here at Inter. I’ve come here to work hard and win the Champions League,” said Eto’o. The 28-year-old will undergo a medical at Inter before putting his name to a fiveyear deal with the Italian champions.

He is part of a swap deal that will see Sweden forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic head to Catalonia while Inter will also pocket 50 million euros and take Belarus winger Alexander Hleb on loan for a year.

Eto’o said few words to the hoards of waiting press and photographers at Milan’s Linate airport upon his arrival but he did congratulate his new team-mates on having beaten city rivals AC Milan 2-0 in a friendly in the United States on Sunday.

He also had a word of thanks for Inter president Massimo Moratti: “He has a big heart,” said Eto’o. Eto’o arrived with his agent Jose Maria Mesalles, who last week agreed personal terms with Inter.

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Barcelona striker Samuel Eto’o of Cameroon waves as he arrives at Linate airport in Milan, Italy, Monday, July 27, 2009. Eto’o arrived in Milan for a medical that would complete a deal that would send the striker to Italian champions Inter Milan.

Inter and Barca have also agreed terms but the deal will only go through once Ibrahimovic completes his move, which should happen early this week.

bank so much money in the swap.

And Moratti claimed that he too was pleased with the deal. “For Inter this is a positive affair, also from an economic perspective,” he said. You have to bear in mind that Eto’o’s value as a player is not that of his low transfer value.” Eto’o had only one year left on his Barca contract and the Catalans openly wanted rid of him, thus reducing greatly his market value.

Ibrahimovic, meanwhile, was tied into a longterm deal at Inter, who did not want to sell him.

Having won four Serie A titles in a row, Inter are under pressure this season to produce the goods in Europe. In the last three seasons they have crashed out in the first knock-out round and the Champions League has become something of an albatros around the club’s collective neck.

Inter don’t seem capable of performing in Europe as they do at home and Moratti is aware of not allowing the quest for European glory to become a burden. “I don’t want the Champions League to become an obsession. The championship is our primary goal and then we can tackle Europe with much courage,” he said.

Barcelona’s new signing Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Sweden gestures during his arrival at the club’s office in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, July 26, 2009.

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Jenson Button fears that his world championship lead will be wiped out in only a few races unless his Brawn GP team gets to the bottom of why it is struggling at the moment. The Briton had hoped that the tight Hungaroring track and the warm weather of the weekend would help him fight back against the resurgent Red Bull Racing outfit, but tyre woes again left him on the back foot and he struggled home seventh.

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Brawn GP driver Jenson Button of Britain is seen in his race car during the practice session at the Hungaroring circuit near Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, July 25, 2009. The Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix will be held here on Sunday, July 26, 2009.

Lorenzo vows to learn from crash Donington - Jorge Lorenzo says he will learn from the mistake that ended his British Grand Prix. The Spaniard is now 25 points behind his Yamaha teammate Valentino Rossi in the championship following today’s crash at a slippery Donington Park.

“I was feeling quite comfortable in the lead,” said Lorenzo. “Unfortunately on the final corner of the ninth lap I made a small mistake, got my line wrong and touched the

white line and there was nothing I could do; it was very slippery. I was okay and wanted to carry on but my bike was too badly damaged. Of course I’m sad and disappointed but this is racing and these feelings don’t help, you just have to learn from a mistake like this and look forwards.”

Rossi also fell later in the race, but was able to rejoin and take fifth. Although Lorenzo admitted that he could have gained ground in the points race had he stayed upright, he

insisted that he does not regard himself as a title contender this year.

“Today was a great opportunity to win some points, but it was the opposite. We lost quite a lot,” he said. “For sure Valentino’s crash helped us a little bit. But I keep thinking that my goal is not to win the championship. If we are second or third in the champonship, that would be good enough for us.

If we can win, it would be unbelievable, but it’s not our goal.”

And with Mark Webber taking third place to cut into Brawn’s ever decreasing championship advantage, Button is now very worried about the state of affairs.

When asked by AUTOSPORT if his 18.5 points advantage was comfortable, Button said: “For sure, not. I have lost 15 points to Webber over the past three races, and that is massive.

“It’s five points per race. It means he will be in front of me in four races time, and there are seven races left. So it is for sure not comfortable, but I cannot do anything about it at the moment except we just need to go through the data, which is annoying as we have to wait for two weeks [because of the factory shutdown].” He added: “We have to sort it out because we are leading the championship, but it is inevitable they are going to overtake us if the Brawns keep going like they are. It is like wearing the

yellow jersey [in the Tour de France], knowing that when you get to the mountains you are going to be useless and overtaken.

“It is nice leading the championship, but it won’t be the case in the next three or four races if we have the performances like we have had in the last few. Valencia I say is going to be hot, but then here we thought it would be in the 30s. But if you look at the weather forecast, it has been 34-35C all week, and the weekend was 2425C and then it is going back up again from Monday. So, maybe someone is trying to make the racing more interesting this year - they don’t want us walking away with it. So they are doing their job very well.”

Button says his team has no answers at the moment as to why its early season dominance has come to a halt – but he has faith that the team will come up with the answers he needs to keep his title challenge on course.

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Honduran military repositions as Zelaya seeks sanctions OCOTAL - The head of the Honduran military has promised not to use deadly force against supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya as the deposed leader spent a third day across the border in Nicaragua plotting his return.

“We will not fire on our people,” the armed forces commander, General Romeo Vasquez, told Sunday Honduran broadcaster Radio Globo, one of the few media out-

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WASHINGTON - Two astronauts will venture into open space again Monday on a fifth and final spacewalk of the shuttle Endeavour’s mission to complete the International Space Station.

Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn spent the final hours leading up to their task preparing their spacesuits and tools and reviewing procedures, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials said.

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lets critical of the interim government headed by Robert Micheletti.

Vasquez was a key figure in the June 28 ouster of Zelaya and has defended the expulsion, but has

said he was only enforcing a Supreme Court ruling.

“The armed forces are not the ones responsible for this internal division,” Vasquez said on the ra-

dio show, during which he also talked with Zelaya’s wife Xiomara Castro, who remained in Honduras and has been prevented from reaching the border.

Vasquez’s comments were another sign that the Honduran military may be seeking to retreat from the turmoil created by Zelaya’s sudden ouster.

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Fiat Yamaha Team’s Spanish MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo slides on the track after falling from his machine near Goddards during the MotoGP Grand Prix at the British Motorcycle Grand Prix at the Donington Circuit, Donington, England, Sunday, July 26, 2009.

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Supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya try to overturn a car brought by a man whom they believed to be an undercover police agent during funeral services for Pedro Magdiel Munoz in El Durazno, Honduras, Sunday, July 26, 2009. The body of Munoz was found near where protests were taking place Saturday, prompting Zelaya supporters to accuse security forces of killing him. Police officials, however, deny that claim.

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The final spacewalk is expected to run about six and a half hours.

During their fourth walk on Friday, Marshburn and Cassidy installed new batteries on one of the oldest of the four solar arrays that power the space station 350 kilometers (215 miles) above Earth.

The six newly fitted batteries “function as expected,” the US space agency said, noting that the old batteries were stored on a cargo carrier that will be placed in Endeavour’s cargo barrier later in the day.

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In this photo provided by NASA, Astronauts Tom Marshburn (left) and Christopher Cassidy, mission specialists for STS-127, share duties on the fourth spacewalk of Endeavour’s current mission and its crew’s joint activities with the space station.