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The Islamist was killed Saturdaymorning in a hail of gunfire and explo-sions from US-trained counter-terrorismforces who had surrounded his sus-pected hideout in remote Beji village,Central Java, according to local media.

The 17-hour siege of the farm-

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JAKARTA - Indonesian police said Sunday it could take twoJAKARTA - Indonesian police said Sunday it could take twoJAKARTA - Indonesian police said Sunday it could take twoJAKARTA - Indonesian police said Sunday it could take twoJAKARTA - Indonesian police said Sunday it could take twoweeks to confirm the death of Asian terror mastermind Noordinweeks to confirm the death of Asian terror mastermind Noordinweeks to confirm the death of Asian terror mastermind Noordinweeks to confirm the death of Asian terror mastermind Noordinweeks to confirm the death of Asian terror mastermind NoordinMohammed Top, who was reported killed in a dramatic standoffMohammed Top, who was reported killed in a dramatic standoffMohammed Top, who was reported killed in a dramatic standoffMohammed Top, who was reported killed in a dramatic standoffMohammed Top, who was reported killed in a dramatic standoffwith police special forces.with police special forces.with police special forces.with police special forces.with police special forces.

house was the culmination of a se-ries of raids and arrests of his ac-complices which uncovered a plotto attack President Susilo BambangYudhoyono’s home outsideJakarta, police said.

Agence France-PresseMELBOURNE - India’s for-

eign minister met Sunday with aMelbourne-based student whosestabbing earlier this year set off awave of protest over allegedly rac-ist attacks in Australia.

Foreign Minister S.M. Krishnamet Sravan Kumar Theerthala,who spent weeks in a coma fight-ing for his life after being stabbedin the head with a screwdriver bygatecrashers at a party in late May.

The incident turned the spot-

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light on a spate of violence towardsIndian students in Australia’s larg-est cities, straining relations withNew Delhi and sparking street pro-tests by fellow students in Sydneyand Melbourne.

AUTOSPORT understands thatyesterday, FIA president MaxMosley wrote to the seven teamson the ‘reserve list’ - those underconsideration for a place on thegrid that did not receive an auto-matic entry in July - as well asBMW Sauber, to inform them thata place on the grid has becomeavailable.

Peter Sauber is still workingwith BMW to put a rescue pack-age in place for the team he is a20% partner in, but the Swiss wasnot able to secure the necessaryfunding in time to meet lastWednesday’s deadline to sign the

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nal place on the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship entry list,nal place on the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship entry list,nal place on the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship entry list,nal place on the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship entry list,nal place on the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship entry list,in the wake of BMW’s announcement that it is withdrawing fromin the wake of BMW’s announcement that it is withdrawing fromin the wake of BMW’s announcement that it is withdrawing fromin the wake of BMW’s announcement that it is withdrawing fromin the wake of BMW’s announcement that it is withdrawing fromthe sport at the end of the year.the sport at the end of the year.the sport at the end of the year.the sport at the end of the year.the sport at the end of the year.

new Concorde Agreement.Therefore, while sources suggest

that Sauber is making progress tosecure the budget to save his epony-mous outfit, the FIA is inviting what-ever BMW Sauber should becometo tender its application alongside theother seven hopefuls selected fromthe original 15 applications, to pitchfor the final place on the grid.

Epsilon Euskadi has already sig-nalled its intention to re-apply, whileDavid Richards’ Prodrive outfit isbelieved still to be interested shouldthe conditions be right to enter F1.

Epsilon Team boss JoanVilladelprat told AUTOSPORT last

Chris Vermeulen has admittedthat he may have to move awayfrom Suzuki next year as he is des-perate to be racing at the front inMotoGP.

The Australian wants to remainloyal to Suzuki but says he has toput his own career first, whichcould mean switching brands if theJapanese manufacturer is unable toup its performance for next year.

“Suzuki gave me my break inMotoGP, I came here as a factoryrider,” Vermeulen toldAUTOSPORT. “I’ve had somevery good times with them and I’vehad some bad times, but my goalis to be world champion.

“I am looking to be on the best

Vermeulen could look beyond Suzukimotorbike that is going to give methe chance to be world champion,whether that’s a Suzuki next year oranother brand, I haven’t made a de-cision on that yet. My goal is to winraces for myself.

“Riders in the past have stayed toolong with bikes that haven’t been thebest and that is something I have re-ally got to consider for next year. Ican’t afford to... well, from my pointof view I don’t want to have anotheryear like this year. I want to be fight-ing for podiums week-in, week-outnot for the second last row of thegrid.”

But Vermeulen is hopeful thatSuzuki will be able to take a signifi-cant step forward in the remainder

of this season, beginning at Brnonext weekend.

“There have been very small dif-ferences in our bike which I am frus-trated about because I was hopingfor a lot more to come, but wehaven’t been able to make the bestout of the one-make tyre at the mo-ment.

“Our main Japanese boss who Ihave got a lot of respect for, ShinichiSahara, was the head at the race trackbefore he was promoted. He is veryhigh up in the factory now. He hasbeen working hard back there, butwe haven’t seen him for a while. Heis coming to Brno and I am hopinghe is coming with a bag full of good-ies for us to try.”

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The FIA has re-opened the selection procedure for the final place on the 2010 Formula 1 WorldChampionship entry list

week: “We are still working on theproject, at a much slower rate obvi-ously because we don’t have the se-curity [to be on the grid].

“What we can say is that thepeople who were interested in help-ing us are still interested, which issomething incredible. And if theopportunity arises, we are going toattack it, there’s no doubt about it.”

Indian External Affairs MinisterSM Krishna (R) sits with Indian

student Sharvan Theerthalawho was attacked and stabbed

with a screwdriver, inMelbourne on August 9, 2009.

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Indonesian police officers stand guard at a militant safe house a day after it was raided in Temanggung, central Java,Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. Southeast Asia’s most wanted terror suspect was reportedly killed during a 16-hour siegeon the suspected militant hide-out that ended Saturday when police stormed the house, but officials said they could not yetconfirm he was among the dead.

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Chief Justice John Roberts admin-istered the oath in a brief televisedceremony held in a Supreme Courtconference room, with some 60 ofSotomayor’s friends and relativespresent. Minutes earlier Roberts ad-ministered a slightly different oath ina private ceremony.

The event caps the spectacular riseof Sotomayor, 55, from a gritty work-ing-class background through eliteUS universities and the federal benchto the top US judicial body, the finalarbiter on legal matters in the nation.

The New York-born Sotomayor,whose parents came from the UScommonwealth of Puerto Rico, tookthe oath with her left hand on a Bibleheld by her widowed mother Celina,as her younger brother Juan, a medi-cal doctor, stood smiling by her side.

The country’s 111th high courtjustice solemnly swore to “adminis-ter justice without respect for persons,and to equal rights to the poor and tothe rich,” and to “faithfully and im-partially discharge and perform” allof her duties as a Supreme Court jus-tice, “so help me God.”

“Congratulations and welcome tothe Court,” Roberts smiled, as heshook her hand immediately after theoath.

Sotomayor was confirmed by a68-31 margin in the US Senate on

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Thursday.Her detractors accused her of be-

ing a “judicial activist” and focusedfor weeks on a 2001 remark to lawstudents at a conference on Hispanicjudges.

“I would hope that a wise Latinawoman with the richness of her expe-riences would more often than notreach a better conclusion than a whitemale who hasn’t lived that life,”Sotomayor said at the event.

The remark made many conserva-tives nervous, with some calling her aracist. In the final poll, only nine outof the 40 Republican senators votedto confirm her.

Sotomayor, who has been a federaljudge for 17 years, replaces outgoingjustice David Souter, who announcedhis retirement in May after 19 yearson the Supreme Court.

President Barack Obama, whonominated Sotomayor for the job, wasnot at the event but will hold a WhiteHouse reception in her honor onWednesday.

The public swearing-in ceremonywas broadcast live on television — afirst, as the camera-shy justices do notallow televised broadcasts of its courtsessions.

In what is seen as a symbolic signof independence, Sotomayor chose tohave the ceremony at the Supreme

Court.The last two justices to take the

bench — Samuel Alito and John Rob-erts — were nominated by then-presi-dent George W. Bush and sworn in ata White House ceremony.

Sotomayor grew up in the Bronx,a working class borough of New Yorkcity. Her mother was a nurse and herfather was a blue-collar worker.

She graduated from elite IvyLeague universities, and was a Man-hattan prosecutor and corporate law-

yer before becoming a federal judge.Sotomayor is the first Supreme

Court justice nominated by a Demo-cratic president since 1994.

The new justice will have little timeto celebrate — the first case she willhear, concerning the constitutionalityof part of the McCain-Feingold cam-paign finance reform act, is scheduledfor September 8. Obama issued a state-ment on Sotomayor following the Sen-ate vote confirming her to the benchon Thursday.

Agence France-PresseCAIRO - The daughter of

Egypt’s slain president AnwarSadat has filed legal complaintsagainst the producers of an Ameri-can film which portrays a dognamed after her father, her lawyersaid on Saturday.

Roqeya Sadat’s complaintagainst the makers of the Holly-wood film “I Love You, Man” willbe heard by a Cairo court on Sep-tember 1, lawyer Samir Sabri toldAFP.

Sadat was shot dead by Islamicmilitants at a military parade in

Sadat daughter takes US film to court over dog named AnwarCairo on October 6, 1981, three yearsafter he signed the 1978 Camp DavidAccords that led to a 1979 peace treatywith Israel, the first by an Arab coun-try.

His daughter is furious over themovie in which the leading characterplayed by Jason Segel names his dogAnwar Sadat, claiming that he re-sembles the slain Egyptian president.

Roqeya Sadat has described themovie as “insulting” to the memoryof her father and was quoted byEgypt’s office news agency MENA assaying that it also “undermines Egyptand its role (of leadership) in the

Middle East.”The film, a romantic comedy di-

rected by John Hamburg forDreamWorks, was released in Egyptearlier this year but is no longer show-ing in movie theatres.

“We’ve filed a complaint onWednesday against the producers ofthe film, the actors and the companywhich distributed it in Egypt,” Sabrisaid.

“We also filed a complaint againstthe minister of communications” be-cause his office allowed the release ofthe film in Egypt earlier this year, headded.

According to him Roqeya Sadatwants all copies of the film to beseized, although the offensivemovie stopped being shown inEgyptian theatres in July.

It is not clear what the Egyptiancourt will decide.

But Sabri said that Sadat’sdaughter is determined to take thecase to US courts.

Last year Roqeya Sadat won acourt case against Hoda AbdelNasser, the daughter of her father’spredecessor, the late Egyptian presi-dent Gamal Abdel Nasser, who haddescribed Anwar Sadat as a US spy.

Lazio captain Tommaso Rocchisuperbly lobbed Inter keeper JulioCesar after finding a gap betweenthe Inter defence just after the hourto clinch the winner.

Two minutes earlier, Rocchi’s61st minute freekick found its waythrough the Inter wall and re-bounded off keeper Cesar, bobblingup into the path of Lazio’s Brazil-ian midfielder Matuzalem, whoslotted home to the delight of sev-eral thousand Chinese Lazio fans.

The quick double strike stunnedInter’s galaxy of stars and theirthousands of Chinese fans into arare silence after they had controlledaffairs on and off the pitch for mostof the tense final.

Staring defeat in the face, thenormally cool Inter manager JoseMourinho brought on Patrick Vieiraand replaced Serbian captain DejanStankovic with Mario Balotelli.

But it was new signing andCameroon star Samuel Eto’o —who had threatened several times —who fired into the roof of the Lazionet in the 75th minute to rally Interinto a frantic search for a dramaticcomeback.

Inter had controlled the game butwere frustrated numerous times bythe excellent Nestor Muslera in theLazio goal.

Another Inter new arrival, Ar-gentine Diego Milito, rolled the ballpast the stranded Muslera in the 81stminute only to be ruled agonisinglyoffside.

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Eto’o then went just wide with afree kick from just outside the boxin injury time.

And though Mourinho’s men laidsiege to the Lazio goal in the dyingminutes, it was the team from Romewho lifted the cup for a memorableparty spoiler in China’s Olympic sta-dium.

The Bird’s Nest played centrestage to China’s highly acclaimedand choreographed opening cer-emony for the 2008 Olympics andthe final was the first significantcompetitive sporting event to beplayed in the iconic stadium sincethe end of the Games.

The stadium, made of a lattice ofcement and steel, has largely servedas a tourist attraction since theGames ended, prompting criticismthat many costly Olympic venues aresitting idle and not being used forsporting events.

A year ago to the day, however,football chants replaced drummers,acrobatic dancers and singers withmany among the 65,000 in the80,000 seater stadium sporting rep-lica football shirts of their Italianheroes.

The Italian Super Cup is the sea-son curtain raiser contested by thewinners of Serie A and the domes-tic Italian Cup.

It is usually played at the homeof the Serie A champions. But in abid to broaden the appeal of Italianfootball it has been contested over-seas several times before.

Agence France PressePARIS - There was early

awayday cheer for title hopefulsMarseille on the opening day of thenew French league season Saturday,but Lyon and Paris St Germain hadto make do with draws.

Lyon were saved at the death bynew signing from Porto LisandroLopez, who netted a freekick to sal-vage a 2-2 draw at lowly Le Mans,who were twice ahead, while PSGstuttered to a 1-1 draw atMontpellier.

Former European championsMarseille, who have endured a 17-year wait for a league crown, wereahead after just two minutes atGrenoble as Mamadou Niang putthem in front having slalomedthrough a brittle home defence.

New Marseille coach DidierDeschamps, determined to bring thegood times back to the StadeVelodrome, permitted himself a nodof satisfaction on the bench as BenoitCheyrou secured the points with thesecond goal ten minutes from time.

Deschamps said: “There weremore positives than negatives. Wehad things pretty much under con-

Marseille off to French flier as Lyon, PSG heldtrol though many will say it’s logicalthat Marseille win at Grenoble. I hopewe can go on from here.”

Marseille finished three pointsadrift of champions Bordeaux lastterm and now are bent on going onebetter.

The Girondins, coached byDeschamps’ erstwhile French inter-national teammate Laurent Blanc,will take on Lens in Sunday’s game.

PSG, wholesale underachieverssince their last championship winback in 1994, again showed theirflaws in drawing 1-1 at Montpellier.

The hosts from the south weredown to 10 men for the last hour af-ter Cyril Jeunechamp was dismissedfor a second bookable offence forscything down PSG’s Ludovic Giulyfrom behind in the 27th minute.

Giuly exacted delicious revengeby firing home from close range inthe 71st minute after home keeperGeoffrey Jourdren spilled a shot fromveteran Claude Makelele.

But rugged Bosnian new signingEmir Spahic powered in a headerfrom inside the six-yard box on thestroke of time to deny the Parisiansall three points.

Lyon had a double fright, mean-while, at Le Mans, who were aheadon 21 minutes through Malian young-ster Modibo Maiga.

Mathieu Bodmer levelled sevenminutes later for Lyon, who couldonly come in third last season afterseven league title wins on the trot -when the run began they had neverlifted the trophy in their history - butMathieu Coutadeur scored from thepenalty spot on the hour to restore thehosts’ lead.

Brazilian defender Cris tangledwith Maiga to earn Le Mans thespotkick but just as an embarrassingloss loomed up popped Lopez to saveLyon’s blushes.

Elsewhere, Saint-Etienne, whojust survived last season after monthsof trials and tribulations which beliedtheir former status of French giants,went down 2-0 at home to Nice.

Auxerre also lost on home soil toSochaux by the only goal andnortherners Nancy won on their trav-els, 3-1 at Valenciennes.

Monaco thanked a first-halfstrike from Nene to see off Toulouse1-0 in the principality while Rennesswamped promoted Boulogne 3-0.

AFP PHOTO / JEAN-PIERRE CLATOT

Grenoble’s Romao (R) vies with Marseille’s Mamadou Niang dur-ing their French L1 football match Grenoble vs Sochaux onAugust 8, 2009, at the Stade-des-Alpes stadium in Grenoble.

AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan

The Lazio team holds the Italian Supercup trophy after they won 2-1 against Inter Milan at China’sNational Olympic Stadium, also known as the Bird’s Nest, in Beijing, China, Saturday, Aug. 8,2009. The Italian season curtain raiser was held on the one year anniversary of the opening ofthe Beijing Olympic Games.

AP Photo/U.S. Supreme Court, Steve Pettewa

In this photograph provided by the U.S. Supreme Court, ChiefJustice John G. Roberts, Jr., right, administers the ConstitutionalOath to Judge Sonia Sotomayor in the Justices’ ConferenceRoom at the Supreme Court in Washington Saturday, Aug. 8,2009 as Sotomayor’s mother, Mrs. Celina Sotomayor, holds thefamily Bible during the ceremony.

Vladimir PutinMOSCOW - As

Vladimir Putin marks adecade in power, itappears the former KGBstrongman may maintainhis grip on Russia’sgovernment for years tocome. Supporters credithim with rescuing theeconomy from the post-Soviet doldrums andrestoring national pride.Critics say the price -rolling back democraticreforms and stiflingdissent - has been toohigh.

Human rightsLONDON - A report by

lawmakers says Britainshould closely monitorU.S. activity on the IndianOcean island of DiegoGarcia to ensure theBritish territory is notused for the rendition orinterrogation of terrorsuspects. Moved.

Pneumonicplague

BEIJING - A blockadearound a remotenorthwest Chinese townwhere deadly pneumonicplague killed threepeople and sickened ninehas been lifted after nonew infections werereported, an official says..

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A memorial ceremony is held in front of the Statue of Peace atNagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, southern Japan, on SundayAug. 9, 2009. Nagasaki marks the 64th anniversary of theworld’s second atomic bomb attack on Sunday.

Tomihisa Tanoue urged worldleaders from both declared nuclearpowers and others such as Iran, Is-rael and North Korea to visit the cityin southwestern Japan.

“I am sure anyone who visitshere would feel the sorrow of thevictims and be shaken by it,” themayor said in an address at an an-nual ceremony commemorating the1945 bombing.

Agence France-Presse

GUADALAJARA - US President BarackObama attends his first North Americanleaders summit in Mexico on Sunday withthe economic crisis and swine flu on anagenda overshadowed by Mexican drug vio-lence.

Hundreds of Mexican soldiers and po-lice deployed in the western city ofGuadalajara for the summit in whichObama, Mexican President Felipe Calderonand Canadian Prime Minister StephenHarper were due to touch on a wide rangeof topics affecting the region of almost 450million inhabitants.

Measures to help recovery in the threemajor economies that have been tied by theNorth American Free Trade Agreement(NAFTA) for 15 years were a top priority.

Like the United States, Mexico has sunkdeep into recession, with much of its indus-try tied to the worst-affected areas of theUS economy — cars and construction —and migrant workers north of the bordersending less money home.

In the two-day meeting, Canada andMexico — the first and third-largest UStrading partners — were expected to pres-sure Obama over a “Buy American” clausein the US economic stimulus plan.

Mexico also sought to resolve an immi-gration dispute with Canada over the recentimposition of visas for Mexicans, and a tradedispute involving Mexican trucks operatingin the United States, officials said here.

Mexico responded to the US cancella-tion of a program allowing some Mexican

Nagasaki calls onNagasaki calls onNagasaki calls onNagasaki calls onNagasaki calls onleaders to visitleaders to visitleaders to visitleaders to visitleaders to visitatomic bomb siteatomic bomb siteatomic bomb siteatomic bomb siteatomic bomb siteAgence France-Presse

TOKYO - Nagasaki’s mayor, marking the 64th anniversary of hiscity’s atomic bombing by the United States, called Sunday on the lead-ers of nuclear-armed powers to visit the site and build a nuclear-freeworld.

A minute of silence was observedat 11:02 am (0202 GMT), when theUS bomb exploded above the city,killing roughly 74,000 people. Thebombing followed one a week beforein Hiroshima and hastened Japan’ssurrender in World War II.

Tanoue said an April speech by USPresident Barack Obama in Prague,where Obama pledged to build aworld with no nuclear weapons, “im-

pressed” the residents of Nagasaki.“The Japanese government must

support the Prague speech. As a na-tion that has come under nuclearattack, Japan must lead the inter-national community” in abolishingthe weapons, he said.

Similar appeals were madeThursday when Hiroshima markedthe anniversary of its bombing,which killed 140,000 people.

At the Nagasaki ceremony,Prime Minister Taro Aso reiteratedthe Japanese government’s anti-nuclear stance, three weeks aheadof national elections that he istipped to lose.

Aso raised eyebrows at theHiroshima ceremony, when hepledged to work toward abolishingnuclear weapons but later told re-porters that he thought it was “un-imaginable” to attain a nuclear-freeworld.

AP Photo/Kyodo News

Obama in first summit withMexico, Canada leaders

trucks on its territory — in violation ofNAFTA — by slapping some 2.4 billion dol-lars in tariffs on 89 US products in March.

With Mexico’s news reports splashedwith daily violence, and killings in suspecteddrug attacks approaching 10,000 since thestart of 2008, Calderon may seek more sup-port for his controversial military crackdownon the country’s warring drug gangs.

The summit comes amid criticism of al-leged abuses by some of around 40,000troops deployed across the country, and re-ports of growing Mexican drug gang activ-ity across the United States, Canada andbeyond.

The United States — the world’s num-ber one cocaine consumer and a market forillegal weapons and money laundering forMexican drug gangs — for the first time thisyear admitted shared responsibility in theMexican drug cartel problem.

It has already agreed to some 1.4 billiondollars in security and justice aid to Mexicounder the three-year Merida Initiative, whichstill has to be fully approved by Congress.

Other key issues on the Guadalajaraagenda include curbing greenhouse-gasemissions ahead of a key climate summit inDecember, the threat of swine flu on the con-tinent worst hit by A(H1N1), the Hondurascrisis and immigration reform.

Some 1,200 federal police officers weredeployed around the city for the meeting, aswell as around 1,000 Mexican presidentialguards and other troops, Mexican officialssaid. Local rights and environmental groupsplanned demonstrations in the city on Sun-day.

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GUADALAJARA - Greenpeaceactivists climbed a main monument inthe Mexican City of Guadalajara Sat-urday in a bid to push climate changeup the agenda of talks between NorthAmerican leaders here this weekend.

President Felipe Calderon will hostCanadian Prime Minister StephenHarper and US President BarackObama for his first “three amigos”meeting in this western city on Sun-day and Monday, in which Mexico’swave of drug violence is a key issue.

A Greenpeace activist dressed as apolar bear held a sign reading “Realleaders back clean energy,” standingon a statue in La Minerva fountain inGuadalajara, as the pressure for con-crete promises on reducing emissionsincreased ahead of a worldwide cli-mate conference in Copenhagen in De-cember.

“We’re the region which contrib-utes most to climate change,” saidMaria Jose Cardenas, fromGreenpeace Mexico, stating that theregion emits 26 percent of worldwidegreenhouse gases. Activists called onthe three giant energy producers andusers to aim to generate almost 40 per-cent of their electricity from renew-able energy sources by 2020.

Joint security amid Calderon’scrackdown on drug cartels, swine fluand efforts to tackle the financial cri-sis are also key issues on the summitagenda.

Greenpeace pressures NorthAmerica leaders on climate

US top seed Roddick outlastedIsner 6-7 (3/7), 6-2, 7-5 and second-seeded defending champion Del Potroof Argentina beat Chilean fourth seedFernando Gonzalez 7-6 (7/2), 6-3 atthe 1.4 million-dollar hardcourt event.

Fifth-ranked Roddick, playing inhis first event since a five-setWimbledon final loss to RogerFederer, fired only nine aces to 20for Isner but hit 69 percent of hisfirst serves and made only two third-set unforced errors.

“I like being on the giving endof the big serve,” Roddick said.“John made me play my best ten-nis. Anything less than that wasn’tgoing to get it done.”

It took five break-point chancesin the third set before Roddick finallybroke compatriot Isner in thepenultimate game, then held serve towin after two hours and 31 minutes.

“I wasn’t converting but it’s notbecause I wassn’t putting the ballon the court. He was coming upwith the goods,” Roddick said. “Allyou can do is put yourself in posi-tion and hope you get that point.”

Roddick credits his improvedshotmaking to faster speed from

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CINCINNATI - Belgian star KimClijsters makes a long-awaited re-turn when she serves it up at theWTA Tour’s Cincinnati event on

MADRID - The skipper ofSpanish top flight side Espanyol,Dani Jarque, has died from a heartattack while on a pre-season train-ing camp in Italy.

The 26-year-old Jarque died atthe hotel where the team were stay-ing in the town of Coviciana. Hewas discovered in his room afterteammates realised he had not ap-peared for a meal.

The club said that team doctorsas well as Italian paramedics triedto revive the midfielder but with-out success.

The tragedy comes just twoyears after the death, also fromheart failure, of Sevilla defenderAntonio Puerta, who died aged 22after having collapsed during theopening game of the Spanish LaLiga season.

Espanyol confirmed the diagno-sis of heart failure and said the clubdoctor’s attempts to revive theplayer had failed. “It was a heartattack,” said club official Germande la Cruz.

“He was talking to his girlfriendwhen he suddenly began to feel un-well. He told her and then stoppedtalking. His partner got in touchwith the hotel and explained whathad happened but it was too late todo anything,” de la Cruz told LaSexta television.

Espanyol skipper DaniJarque dies of heart attack

Jarque had played forEspanyol since the 2002-2003season.

In the last campaign, he featuredin 36 legaue matches and scoredtwo goals. He was also a memberof the team which won the SpanishCup in 2006 and who were UEFACup runners-up in 2007.

European championsBarcelona, who are Espanyol’scity rivals, sent their condolencesto the Jarque’s family from theirAmerican tour base in San Fran-cisco.

Barca president Joan Laportatold www.fcbarcelona.com: “Weare filled with extreme sadness atthis tragic event and tonight weare in mourning.

“On behalf of Barcelona, wewant to send our deepest sympa-thies to Espanyol for the painfulloss of their captain Dani Jarque,and to his family.”

A minute’s silence was ob-served at the start of the secondhalf of a pre-season friendly at theMestella Stadium where Valenciawere taking on English side Ar-senal.

Players from both sides alsowore black armbands. RealMadrid as well as the Spanishfootball federation sent their con-dolences to Jarque’s family.

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Andy Roddick, of the Unites States, jumps while returning theball against Ivo Karlovic, of Croatia, at the quarterfinals of theLegg Mason Tennis Classic, in Washington, on Friday, Aug. 7,2009. Roddick won the match 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5).

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Clijsters raring to get this comeback startedMonday.

The unseeded wild card Clijsterswon’t have it easy as her first matchis against 12th seededFrenchwoman Marion Bartoli.

Bartoli is fresh off an impressive

win over Venus Williams in the fi-nal of the Stanford Bank of the WestClassic.

“I see it as a second career,”Clijsters told The New York Timeson Saturday. “Honestly, the firstword that comes up is, oh, it’s acomeback. But so many things havechanged and so many things havehappened.”

Indeed the former world numberone racked up 34 singles titles whenshe retired in May 2007 at age 23,citing injuries and the upcomingmarriage. Two months later shemarried basketball player BrianLynch and then there was the birthof daughter Jada Ellie. During thattime of her life her father, Leo, suc-cumbed to lung cancer.

“In tennis, it’s very importantthat you’re very stable there, thehips and the core,” she said. “Withthe pregnancy, that’s something thatwas totally gone.”

Clijsters is in the same half ofthe draw as top seeded DinaraSafina and sixth seeded SvetlanaKuznetsova and could face either orboth if she should go on a run.

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WASHINGTON - Andy Roddick and Juan Martin Del Potrostruggled into the finals of the ATP Washington Classic on Saturday,Del Potro sagging in sweltering heat and Roddick tested by big-serv-ing John Isner.

better fitness.“It’s a lot easier to hit a passing

shot when you can get to it,”Roddick said.

Sixth-ranked Del Potro fired 10aces in hot and humid conditions onhis way to beating Gonzalez for thefirst time in four meetings betweenSouth America’s top players, whoeach reached this year’s FrenchOpen semi-finals.

“It was tough for both of us. Thecourt was so hot,” Del Potro said.“After the first set Fernando was sotired. Me too. It was very difficultfor both of us. We were very tiredand the sun was very strong.”

Gonzalez was so exhausted thatwhen he fell early in the second sethe stayed on his back until Del Potroclimbed over the net to help him up.

“He told me, ‘Come with me andgive up,’” Del Potro said. “I wasthinking lay down with him. If I didwe would never stand up. I didn’t.We kept playing like professionals.”

Del Potro won his only priormatch with Roddick in last year’sLos Angeles final and will try tobecome the first back-to-backWashington champion since Andre

Agassi in 1999.“I will have to play much better

than today,” Del Potro said. “He hasimproved a lot since we played.”

Roddick expects no trouble inSunday’s afternoon final after train-ing in Texas heat for weeks but doesanticipate seeing Del Potro at his best.

“I’m going to have to hit the ballreally well from the baseline,”Roddick said. “He drives the ballthrough the court as well as any-body. It’s a matter of surviving earlyon, getting it down hopefully towhere it’s just a few big points.”

Roddick, 26, seeks his 28th ca-reer crown and fourth in Washing-ton after taking the title in 2001,2005 and 2007, when he beat Isner,24, in the final. It would be his sec-ond ATP title of the year after aFebruary win at Memphis.

Del Potro, 20, seeks his sixth ca-reer title and second of the season af-ter winning at Auckland in January.

Isner, who will climb to 44thfrom 80th in the rankings, savedtwo break points in the openinggame of the third set and one eachin the ninth and 11th games beforeRoddick closed him out.

“Every service game I held wasa challenge and he eventually justbroke me down,” Isner said.

Roddick took a tumble diving fora return in the ninth game but wasunhurt. “I’m fine,” Roddick said.“I’m worried about the court.”

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Greenpeace protesters, one of them dressedup as a polar bear, put up a banner for theheads of state that will participate in the NorthAmerican Leaders Summit which says “Realleaders Back Clean Energy” at the landmark“Minerva” monument in Guadalajara, Mexico,Saturday Aug. 8, 2009.

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Subjects who drank the juice eas-ily outperformed a control group intests and were able to exercise at thesame intensity for up to 16 percentlonger.

The findings, published in theUS-based Journal of Applied Physi-ology, will be of keen interest to en-durance athletes but may also provehelpful to people with cardiovascu-lar, respiratory or metabolic diseasesas well as the elderly, the research-ers said.

There are essentially two ways toenhance physical performance in re-lation to oxygen intake.

One is to raise the “VO2-max”level, which is an individual’s high-est possible rate of oxygen consump-

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GENEVA – When launched togreat fanfare nearly a year ago, somefeared the Large Hadron Colliderwould create a black hole that wouldsuck in the world. It turns out theHadron may be the black hole.

The world’s largest scientificmachine has cost $10 billion, hasworked only nine days and has yetto smash an atom. The uniqueequipment in a 17-mile (27-kilo-meter) circular tunnel with cathe-dral-sized detectors deep beneaththe Swiss-French border has beenassembled by specialists in manycountries, with 8,970 physicistseagerly awaiting the startup.

But despite the expense, thou-sands of physicists around the world,many of whom hope to conduct ex-periments here, insist that it will workand that it is crucial to mankind’sunderstanding of the universe.

The European Organization forNuclear Research, known as CERN,said Friday it would restart thecollider in November at half powerunder pressure from scientists eagerto conduct experiments to unlocksecrets of the universe.

But spokesman James Gillies toldThe Associated Press they wouldhave to shut down yet again next yearto finish repairs so that the LargeHadron Collider can operate at fullenergy of 7 trillion electron volts —seven times higher than any othermachine in the world.

CERN has been working sincelate last year to repair the damagecaused by a faulty electrical joint.The breakdown occurred nine daysafter the spectacular start up of the$10 billion machine last Sept. 10when beams of subatomic particleswere sent around the accelerator inopposite directions.

Fifty-three massive electricalmagnets had to be cleaned and re-paired after the failure. Tons of su-percold liquid helium spilled out ofthe system, and a sooty residue hadto be cleared from the tubes that aremeant to be pristine, holding avacuum in which subatomic particlescan whiz around the tunnel at nearthe speed of light at temperatures

AP Photo/Fabrice Coffrini, Pool, FileIn this file photo dated Sept. 10, 2008, European Center for NuclearResearch (CERN) scientists control computer screens showingtraces on Atlas experiment of the first protons injected in the LargeHadron Collider (LHC) during its switch on operation in CERN’s con-trol room, near Geneva, Switzerland.

Particle collider: Blackhole or crucial machine?

colder than outer space.Michio Kaku, a physics professor

at City University of New York whois an outspoken critic of waste in bigscience projects, defends the CERNcollider as a crucial investment.

“The Europeans and the Ameri-cans are not throwing $10 billiondown this gigantic tube for nothing,”Kaku said. “We’re exploring the veryforefront of physics and cosmologywith the Large Hadron Collider be-cause we want to have a window oncreation, we want to recreate a tinypiece of Genesis to unlock some ofthe greatest secrets of the universe.”

He said the biggest cause of the“bad accident” last year was “prob-ably due to human error caused byrushing the project.”

“But I view it as a temporaryblack eye. We’ll get it up and run-ning,” Kaku said.

CERN expects repairs and ad-ditional safety systems to costabout 40 million Swiss francs ($37million) over the course of severalyears, covered by the 20-nationorganization’s budget.

The collider emerged as the world’slargest after the U.S. canceled the Su-perconducting Super Collider beingbuilt in Texas in 1993. Congress pulledthe plug after costs soared, and ques-tions were raised about the value ofthe science it could produce.

Gillies says all 20 of CERN’smember nations have remained sup-portive and that four other countries— Cyprus, Israel, Serbia and Tur-key — have asked to join. A fifthcountry — Slovenia — has ex-pressed interest.

Japan, India, Russia and the U.S.are observer countries that havemade sizable contributions to theCERN project.

CERN is now aiming to restart themachine in November with beams ofsubatomic particles initially runningat 3.5 trillion electron volts, or TeV.That’s only half the level the machinewas designed for, but it’s still 3 1/2times higher than the second mostpowerful accelerator, the Tevatron atFermilab outside Chicago. During lastyear’s brief startup phase, the CERNcollider only operated at half theFermilab level.

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PARIS – A generous glass of beetroot juice boosts endurance byreducing the amount of oxygen needed during physical exercise, ac-cording to a study released Friday.

tion during all-out exercise.The VO2-max ceiling varies from

person to person. It is partly geneticbut it can be increased through train-ing or the use of EPO, the oxygen-boosting drug that has plagued theTour de France cycling competitionas well as other professional sports.

“But there is an alternative,” ex-plained Andy Jones, a professor atthe University of Exeter in Britainand lead author of the study.

“If you can reduce the energycost” — the amount of oxygen used— “that can be beneficial too,” hetold AFP by phone. That’s wherebeetroots come in.

In experiments, Jones and col-leagues asked two groups of people

to exercise at a fixed, high-intensitywork rate for as long as they possi-bly could.

The group that drank a red-coloured placebo held out on aver-age for nine or ten minutes. Thosewho drank beetroot, however, went11 or 12 minutes.

“They were exercising at exactlythe same work rate. The improve-ment in performance was not be-cause the VO2-max had changed butsimply because the efficiency hadbeen enhanced,” Jones said.

“We were amazed by the effectson oxygen uptake because these ef-fects cannot be achieved by anyother known means.”

Whether the juice will also workover several hours of less intenseexercise — equivalent to long-dis-tance running or cycling — remainsto be shown but seems likely, Jonesadded.

The researchers are not sure ex-actly how the ruby-red elixir worksbut they do have an educated guess.

Like lettuce and spinach, beetrootis rich in nitrate, which the bodyconverts into nitrite. This, in turn, isa chemical trigger for another com-pound, nitric oxide.

Nitric oxide can dilate blood ves-sels and thus provide more oxygento muscles. “But we think the key isthat it seems to do a lot of weird andwonderful things within the musclecells’ mitochondria, where oxidatedenergy is produced,” Jones said.

Earlier laboratory studies confirmthe link between nitric oxide andincreased energy output but furtherexperiments are needed to seewhether this truly is the magic in-gredient.

Another study, published last yearin the US journal Hypertension,found that beetroot juice reducesblood pressure too.

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NEW YORK - The outage thatknocked Twitter offline for hours wastraced to an attack on a lone blogger inthe former Soviet republic of Georgia— but the collateral damage that leftmillions around the world tweetlessshowed just how much havoc an iso-lated cyberdispute can cause.

“It told us how quickly manypeople really took Twitter into theirhearts,” Robert Thompson, directorof the Center for the Study of Popu-lar Television at Syracuse Univer-sity, said Friday.

Tens of millions of people havecome to rely on social media to ex-press their innermost thoughts andto keep up with world news and ce-lebrity gossip.

Twitter “is one of those littleamusements that infiltrated the massbehavior in some significant ways, so

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Cyclists race past the Notre Dame Cathedral as part of the Tour deFrance in July 2009 in Paris. A glass of beetroot juice boosts endur-ance by reducing the amount of oxygen needed during physical exer-cise, according to a new study.

Attacks on lone blogger reverberate across Webthat when it went away, a lot of peoplereally noticed it and missed it.”

The attacks Thursday also sloweddown Facebook and caused prob-lems for the online diary siteLiveJournal. But Twitter, the 140-character-or-less messaging siteused by celebrities, businesses andeven Iranian protesters, suffered atotal outage that lasted several hours.

Those attacks continued Fridayfrom thousands of computers pum-meling its servers, said KazuhiroGomi, chief technology officer forNTT America Enterprise Hosting Ser-vices, which hosts Twitter’s service.

Twitter crashed because of a de-nial-of-service attack, in whichhackers command scores of comput-ers toward a single site at the sametime to prevent legitimate trafficfrom getting through. The attack wastargeted at a blogger who goes by“Cyxymu” — Cyrillic spelling of

Sukhumi, a city in the breakawayterritory of Abkhazia in Georgia —on several Web sites, including Twit-ter, Facebook and LiveJournal.

But they could have just as welltargeted Twitter itself. That’s be-cause the effects were the samewhether the excess traffic went to the“twitter.com” home page or to thepage for Cyxymu at “twitter.com/cyxymu.” Same with Facebook andLiveJournal.

“A denial of service attack likethis one is a very blunt instrument,”said Ray Dickenson, chief technol-ogy officer at Authentium, a com-puter security firm. It’s as if a viewerwho didn’t like one show on a tele-vision channel decided to “knockout the whole station.”

Or like fishing with dynamite:You’ll catch something, but the blastwill kill dolphins, sharks and otherorganisms, too.

The leaders, including oustedpresident Marc Ravalomanana andhis rival Andry Rajoelina, agreed toset up an interim government andhold elections by the end of nextyear in a deal signed in the earlyhours of Sunday.

The rivals had “agreed that thetransition will last no longer than 15months from the signature of theaccord,” said UN mediator TiebileDrame, after the overnight talks.

Legislative and presidential elec-tions will be held under interna-tional supervision during the periodwhich will see stable democraticinstitutions re-established inMadagsacar, he said.

The four leaders, includingformer presidents Didier Ratsirakaand Albert Zafy, regrouped for an-

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MADRID - The Basque separat-ist organisation ETA claimed Sun-day in a statement responsibility forseveral attacks, including those thatkilled two Civil Guard officers anda police inspector it called a “tor-turer”.

In the statement released to thepro-independence Basque dailyGara, a regular channel for ETAcommunications, the group claimedthe June 19 car bomb attack thatkilled 49-year-old police inspectorEduardo Puelles Garcia in theBasque town of Arrigorriaga.

The statement also claimed theJuly 30 car bomb attack outside a

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ALMATY - A Kazakh journal-ist was Saturday sentenced to threeyears in prison for divulging statesecrets in a ruling slammed bymedia rights groups who accusethe Central Asian state of stiflingpress freedom, Interfax reported.

Ramzan Essergenov, chief edi-tor of the newspaper Alma-AtaInfo, was sentenced by a court sit-ting in closed session over an ar-ticle in which he questionedwhether the ex-Soviet republicwas ruled by the president or thesecret service.

Three others — businessmanSultan Makhmadov and two of hisemployees — got terms rangingbetween two and eight years in jail,one of their lawyers MussataiBektassov said, according to the

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YANGON - Myanmar democ-racy leader Aung San Suu Kyifaces fresh uncertainty this weekover her internationally con-demned trial, with her US co-defendant’s illness threatening tofurther delay the verdict.

A prison court is scheduled tohand down judgment on NobelPeace laureate Suu Kyi and Ameri-can John Yettaw when it meets onTuesday for what was expected tobe the final episode in the nearlythree-month-long legal imbroglio.

But diplomats and officials saidit could be postponed once againbecause Yettaw — who sparkedthe case by swimming to herlakeside home in May — remainsin hospital after suffering repeatedepileptic seizures.

Myanmar officials speaking oncondition of anonymity saidYettaw’s health improved slightly onSaturday and that he was “eatingwell” after fasting for weeks, butsaid the trial could be delayed atleast another week.

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi facesnew trial uncertainty

Kazakh journalist jailed fordivulging ‘state secrets’

Russian news agency.Kazakhstan, ruled by President

Nursultan Nazarbayev for 20years, has drawn wide criticismfrom rights groups at home andabroad for trampling on democracyand human rights.

A controversial recent law al-lows the shutting down of awebsite for three months if it isdeemed to have intentionally pub-lished illegal information.

Media rights groups meanwhiledenounced the trial.

“Ramzan Essergenov has onlycarried out his duty as a citizen, hisprofessional duty,” said a joint let-ter by opposition newspapers andnon-governmental organisationsaddressed to the attorney general.

“Independent studies haveproven that these documents... arenot state secrets,” it added.

“If Yettaw’s health does not im-prove or deteriorates we are head-ing towards a postponement. We willknow more on Monday,” added aWestern diplomat, asking not to benamed.

“But if his condition improvesduring the weekend they(Myanmar’s ruling junta) have nointerest in delaying further the ver-dict,” the diplomat said.

Suu Kyi faces up to five years injail if convicted of violating herhouse arrest. She has already beenin detention for 14 of the last 20 yearsand is being held at Yangon’s Inseinprison, where the trial is taking place.

The case is proving to be a ma-jor headache for the junta, caughtbetween growing internationalpressure to free Suu Kyi and whatcritics say is its determination tokeep her locked up during electionsdue in 2010.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon last weekpressed the junta to free political pris-oners, including Suu Kyi, after con-vening a meeting of the “Group ofFriends of the Secretary-General onMyanmar”.

A visit to Myanmar in the nexttwo weeks by Democratic US Sena-tor Jim Webb — the first US law-maker to visit the country in morethan 10 years — could further com-plicate the timing of the verdict, dip-lomats said.

Suu Kyi’s lawyers have hailed therepeated delays as a sign that thejudges have “serious legal problems”— but analysts say the real decisionsare being made by reclusive juntaleader Than Shwe from the bunkercapital Naypyidaw.

Myanmar’s regime “has a win-dow from August 10 and 20 be-cause after that all the governmentscome back to normal and thenearly September you have the UNGeneral Assembly,” the westerndiplomat said.

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Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano (C) signs a memorandum of Agreement flanked byMadagascar ousted president Marc Ravalomanana (R) and transitional president Andry Rajoelina (L) onAugust 9, 2009 at the Joaquim Chissano International Conference Centre, Mozambique.

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MAPUTO - Leaders of Madagascar’s main political movementsmet Sunday to discuss the formation of a transitional government af-ter signing an agreement to lead the country to fresh polls and endmonths of crisis.

other session early Sunday dedi-cated to discussion on the make-upof the transition government.

Lead mediator Joaquim Chissanosaid no decision was expected Sunday.

“It may not be today. Today we’regoing to see how to proceed,” saidChissano, the former Mozambicanpresident. “The agenda for today isto see how we are going to accom-plish the work ahead.”

African Union envoy toMadgascar Ablasse Ouedraogo saidSunday’s meeting was “too early”in the negotiations to expect agree-ment on the line-up of the transi-tional administration. “It is a goodstarting point,” he said.

The transition government willinclude a president, vice president,prime minister and three deputy

prime ministers and 28 ministers.Ravalomanana said he would re-

turn home to Madagascar under theterms of the accord — which grantshim an amnesty — but would notpersonally take part in the govern-ment of transition.

“In the interests of the nation, andfollowing consultations, it seems rea-sonable to me to not participate per-sonally in the transition,” he told jour-nalists, adding that his party wouldtake part in the transition institutions.

Under the terms of the accordmembers of the transition govern-ment may not run in the elections,except for its president.

Ravalomanana said however thathe would wait to return to Madagas-car until “the situation isfavourable”.

Ravalomanana has been living inexile in South Africa since fleeingMadagascar in March following theriots which left 100 dead.Ravalomanana handed over powerto the army, which then transferredit to his rival Rajoelina.

ETA claims responsibility forkilling three Spanish police

police barracks on the Mediterra-nean island of Majorca that killedtwo members of the Civil Guardsparamilitary police, Diego Salva andCarlos Saenz de Tejada.

It said Puelles was “the chief ofpolice operations against numerousleftist independence activists andagainst pro-independence youths forthe past decade, and the coordina-tor of different operations againstETA.”

“Sometimes, as the most experi-enced and despicable torturer in thecommissariat ... he also pressuredindependence activists into collabo-rating by threats,” said the group.

Founded half a century ago, ETAis blamed for the deaths of 828

people in its violent campaign foran independent Basque homelandencompassing parts of northernSpain and southwest France.

The group also claimed in thestatement a car bomb attack on aCivil Guards barracks in the north-ern city of Burgos on July 29 thatinjured 40 people, and a bomb at-tack on the offices of the ruling So-cialist Party in the Basque town ofDurango on July 10 in which no onewas injured.

Despite claiming the attacks ETAsaid it “does not seek to impose anyproject, unlike successive Spanishleaders. It is ETA which has over thelong decades sought dialogue andpolitical solution.”

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The movie — about the strugglesof insect-like extra-terrestrial refugeesas they try to settle on Earth amongsthostile humans — has garnered glow-ing reviews ahead of its North Ameri-can release on August 14.

Produced by Oscar-winning“Lord of the Rings” director PeterJackson, Blomkamp’s film arosefrom the ashes of plans to adaptsmash hit video-game “Halo” forthe big screen.

Yet while the film’s setting is a fu-turistic parallel universe, the story isunmistakably rooted in South Africa’srecent bloody history of apartheid andanti-immigrant social unrest.

Vancouver-based Blomkamp, 29,acknowledges said that despite thesymbolism of “District 9,” he hadnot set out to make a “political” film.

“I was aware that I didn’t wantto make a film that sounded overlypolitical and that the audience wouldfind really draining,” Blomkamptold reporters at a press event in LosAngeles.

“But I knew that I wanted theessence of South Africa to be cap-tured and the essence of segregationand pure racism kind of hit it headon, because that was the environ-ment where I grew up in.

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LONDON – Hundreds of Beatles fans swarmed Abbey Road on Sat-urday, singing songs and snarling traffic to mark 40 years since John,Paul, George and Ringo strode across the leafy north London street andinto the history books on iconic pop photos.

The famous photo graced the cover of the Fab Four’s “Abbey Road,”the last album recorded together, and shows the bandmates walking pur-posefully across the zebra-striped asphalt.

It remains one of music’s best-known album covers, endlessly imi-tated and parodied. Although the shoot itself only took a few minutes, socarefully studied was the cover for signs and symbolism that some die-hard fans came to the conclusion that Paul McCartney — who appearsbarefoot and out of step with the rest — had secretly died.

McCartney himself made fun of the bizarre conspiracy in the title ofhis 1993 concert album, “Paul is Live.”

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TAIPEI – Taiwan’s pop singerJay Chou will star alongside NicolasCage and Cameron Diaz in themovie remake of popular US tele-vision series “The Green Hornet,”reports here said Saturday.

Chou, 30, has been cast as thesuperhero’s sidekick Kato, a roleplayed by the late Chinese-Ameri-can martial arts icon Bruce Leeabout 40 years ago, said the UnitedDaily News.

“I am very happy to act in an in-ternational film. I will do my best,”the paper quoted Chou as saying ina statement issued by his companyJVR Music.

Chou won the role after a video-link audition a month ago with the

movie’s director Michel Gondry and writer Seth Rogen, who will playthe lead role Britt Reid, or The Green Hornet, the report said.

Chou will start shooting for the film, scheduled to be released on July9 2010, after wrapping up his directorial work for a television series andtwo concerts in China, it said.

The Apple Daily said Chou replaced Hong Kong star Stephen Chow,who was originally set to direct and act in the film, but had pulled outdue to differences with Columbia Pictures.

Chou, also famous in China, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia for hispop music, has expanded into filmmaking in recent years, starring in anumber of box-office hits including “Initial D,” “The Curse of the GoldenFlower” and “Secret.”

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Producer Peter Jackson, actor Sharlto Copley and writer/director Neill Blomkamp take part in a paneldiscussion on the movie “District 9” at Comic-Con 2009 in July in San Diego, California. Hollywood isbuzzing with excitement about South African director Blomkamp’s debut film, a science-fiction thrillerabout aliens segregated in a Johannesburg township.

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LOS ANGELES – Hollywood is buzzing with excitement about SouthAfrican director Neill Blomkamp’s debut film “District 9,” a science-fiction thriller about aliens segregated in a Johannesburg township.

“So there was a fine balance be-tween these many analogies of apart-heid and these many analogies of thewhite government and oppression.”

Early reviews of “District 9” sug-gest Blomkamp has pulled off thatbalancing act — Internet film reviewaggregator Rottentomatoes.com hasgiven the movie a perfect 100 per-cent rating.

The Hollywood Reporter hailedthe movie as a “genuinely originalscience fiction film that grabs youimmediately, not letting go until thefinal shot.”

The film’s central character,Wikus van der Merwe, played bySouth African Sharlto Copley, is anemployee of a private security firmattempting to unravel the mysteriesof the aliens’ weapons systems,which can only be unlocked withalien DNA.

When Wikus is infected by analien virus that begins to change hishuman DNA, the hunter becomes thehunted and he is forced to seek ref-uge among the extra-terrestrials intheir Soweto-like ghetto, District 9.

Blomkamp said Johannesburgwas the logical setting for the film,doubting it could have been madeanywhere else.

“I think it would be incrediblydifficult to replicate what we havein Johannesburg,” he said. “There isso much visual detail here, the dirtor barbed wire or weeds, it’s incred-ibly rich visually. For the film towork, I think you need this level ofreality and this level of pollution andrealness.”

New Zealand film-maker Jacksonmeanwhile said that Blomkamp’sSouth African identity had allowedhim to “bring a unique perspective”to the story.

Jackson and Blomkamp firstworked together during planning fora possible film version ofMicrosoft’s XBox console hit“Halo.”

Blomkamp had impressed Jack-son with a short 2005 film “Alive inJoburg,” which first presented theconcept on which District 9 is based.

“I flew down to New Zealand tomeet Pete and he signed off on mefor ‘Halo’; we started to make ‘Halo’and then ‘Halo’ collapsed,”Blomkamp recalled.

“I was getting ready to move backto Vancouver and then he and FranWalsh said ‘Why don’t you just stayhere and we can try another film?Let’s use the momentum you createdin Halo and just keep it going andstart something new.’ “That soundedlike a good idea to me. So they kindof allowed this new film to happenand let me make it, which was awe-some for me.”

Taiwan’s Jay Chou goesto Hollywood: report

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Jay Chou

Beatles fans swarm AbbeyRoad on album anniversary

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A tribute band dressed as members of British band, the Beatles,walk across the famous pedestrian crossing on Abbey Road, in Lon-don, in a recreation of the Beatles’ Abbey Road album cover as hun-dreds of people gathered to mark the 40th anniversary of the album,Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009.

“Three victims have been recov-ered,” said Debbie Hersman, headof the National TransportationSafety Board, at a late Saturdaypress conference, adding that searchoperations had been suspended forthe night.

Media reports said the bodies oftwo adults and one child had beenpulled from the Hudson, hours af-ter the helicopter carrying five tour-ists and a pilot collided with an air-plane in full view of horrified resi-dents.

Hersman said she could not con-firm the identities of the three bod-ies, or which aircraft they had beenaboard.

Earlier in the day, New YorkMayor Michael Bloomberg told apress conference that what hadstarted as a rescue operation was

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ZANZIBAR TOWN - Police onthe Tanzanian island of Zanzibarsaid they had arrested a suspect inthe murder of a 27-year-old Irishtourist, whose body was found on abeach here Saturday.

The body of the victim, who had

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NUKU’ALOFA - The feareddeath toll from a ferry disaster inTonga has risen to 95, police saidSunday as devastated Tonganspacked churches across the tinyPacific island kingdom in a day ofmourning.

Police commander Chris Kelleysaid it was now believed there were149 people on board the PrincessAshika, which went down just be-fore midnight on Wednesday.

Two bodies and 54 survivorshave been found, and 93 people areunaccounted for.

Police said the final numbercould be higher and they were con-tinuing to analyse information aboutunrecorded people on board the ves-sel, whose official manifest showedonly 79 passengers and crew.

“I think there is a complete

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HONG KONG - A Hong Kongbusinessman living in Taiwan wasbehind a plot to shoot leadingdemocrats Jimmy Lai and MartinLee, a report said Sunday.

The unidentified businessmanput up one million US dollars toChinese crime bosses to attack Lai,a media mogul, and Lee, a leadingpolitician, the Sunday MorningPost reported citing police evidencefrom a trial in Shenzhen.

Two of the suspects in the casepinpointed the businessman as themastermind behind the plot whichwas foiled last summer, the En-glish-language paper said.

Tung Nga-man, who reportshave said is a senior leader in theTriad crime group, told police thathe had flown to Taiwan to meet thebusinessman.

“(The businessman) said Laiwas anti-government and anti-state,and so on, and that it should be OK

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Authorities retrieve a body from the Hudson River after a mid-air collision, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009, in NewYork. A sightseeing helicopter carrying five Italian tourists collided with a small plane above the HudsonRiver on Saturday, sending debris into the water and forcing people on New Jersey’s waterfront to scam-per for cover. Authorities believe all nine people aboard the two aircraft were killed.

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NEW YORK - Nine people were believed dead Sunday after a heli-copter carrying Italian tourists crashed mid-air with a light airplaneover New York’s Hudson River.

Tanzania police arrest suspectover Irishman’s death

arrived in Zanzibar earlier this week,was found about 60 kilometres (37miles) north of the capital, the po-lice chief Mselem Masoud Mtuliatold AFP.

An initial examination of thebody had revealed bruises to theneck, said Mtulia, the senior officerfor the north of the island.

“We are going with investigationand also call upon people to helppolice by providing any informationwhich will help us arrest the mur-derers,” he added.

The Zanzibar archipelago is asemi-autonomous part of Tanzaniapopular with tourists for its beachesand snorkelling.

being converted into a recovery op-eration, saying the incident was “notsurvivable.”

“This is not going to have a happyending,” he said.

Hersman said divers had locatedthe wreckage of the helicopter andwere using sonar equipment tosearch for the plane before they shutdown operations overnight.

“Once that wreckage is pulled up,they will try to do it tomorrow, de-pending on the current and the cir-cumstances and the conditions... itwill be pulled up and taken to a se-cure location for further examina-tion,” she said.

The search for the wreckage wasmade more difficult by the low vis-ibility of only about one meter (threefeet) at the bottom of the river, au-thorities pointed out.

The Eurocopter AS350 was car-rying five Italian tourists and a pi-lot. Two passengers, including onechild, plus a pilot were aboard thesingle-propeller Piper PA32 plane.

The collision took place just af-ter noon (1600 GMT) on a hot sum-mer day when river-front streetswere crowded with locals and tour-ists.

Witnesses described the two air-craft plummeting into the river be-tween Manhattan and New Jersey.

“It hit the water like a stone,” awoman told NY1. “I saw a piece ofmetal, I saw a helicopter, the heli-copter went down, and that was it. Iheard no noise, and no smoke orfire.”

Some witnesses said the accidenthad been almost noiseless, but oth-ers reported hearing either the col-lision or impact against the river.

“We heard a really loud crashwhich sounded like lightning orthunder,” another woman said.“They were both falling from thesky.”

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Concerned citizens gather on the dock as survivors arrives in Pangaion Tonga’s Lifuka Island, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009, after a ferry carry-ing 117 passengers and crew sank around midnight Wednesday,northeast of the Tongan capital, Nuku’alofa.

Hong Kong businessmanbehind plot to shoot democrats

to spend some money to teach hima lesson,” Tung told police, accord-ing to the Post.

Another defendant at the trial inShenzhen, over the Chinese borderfrom Hong Kong, was told the pay-ment would be one million dollarsfor murdering Lai and 700,000 dol-lars for injuring him, the report said.

The attack was planned for July1, when both men were taking partin Hong Kong’s annual pro-democ-racy march, the paper said.

A Hong Kong court last monthjailed a mainland Chinese gunmanto 16 years for possessing a fire-arm with the intention of causingharm.

A second man was handed athree-year jail term after admittingpossessing firearms in connectionwith the plot.

The plot was foiled after a po-lice officer stopped the gunman bychance at a Hong Kong policecheckpoint in August last year, thecourt heard.

Feared toll from Tonganferry tragedy rises to 95

manifest that is held by a crewmember on the boat when it sailed,but of course that would have beenlost in the sinking,” Kelley said.

“What we are faced is that peopleare telling us is they put people onthe boat and they weren’t on themanifest that was supplied here.”

Navy divers from Australia andNew Zealand were to continue Sun-day trying to locate the ferry, whichwas en route from Tonga’s capitalNuku’alofa to outlying Ha’afevawhen it sank moments after issu-ing a mayday call.

Survivors said it went downquickly when cargo appeared toshift and people below decks hadno time to escape.

The ferry was initially located inabout 35 metres (115 feet) of waterbut may have slipped further on theuneven seabed to a depth of about100 metres.

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As battered banks and stocks rallyagain, news that US house prices are fi-nally rising after nearly three years of trau-matic decline offers the greatest hope tohard-pressed homeowners from Californiato Krakow.

The sub-prime home loan crisis inAmerica was the pressure-point that ex-posed underlying global financial chaos —and many economists say property pricesthere are the linchpin for confidence inbroader economic recovery.

US home sales have been rising andthe latest Standard & Poor’s/Case Shillerindex of home prices in 20 major US citiesshowed a 0.5 percent increase betweenApril and May — the first monthly risesince 2006.

“This is the first time we have seenbroad increases in home prices in 34months. This could be an indication thathome price declines are finally stabilizing,”said Standard & Poor’s analyst DavidBlitzer.

Data from the National Association ofRealtors also showed the median price ofexisting US home sales was 181,600 dol-lars (127,200 euros) in June — 15 percentlower than a year ago, but up from 174,700in May.

Celia Chen, an analyst at credit ratingagency Moody’s, said there were “tanta-lizing signs that the descent in house pricesis at least moderating,” but warned thathouse prices will not reach their 2006 highsuntil 2020.

Analysts remain skeptical on thelonger-term outlook for property prices asstable economic growth remains vulnerableto rising unemployment and government

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strategies for a clean exit from recessionafter unprecedented fiscal stimulus.

But that is doing little to dampen cau-tious optimism on property markets.

Official data in China is showing houseprices in 70 cities were up 0.8 percent inJune from May, rising for the fourth straightmonth, while real estate investment nation-wide rose 9.9 percent in the first half of theyear.

In Britain, house prices rose by 1.1 per-cent in July to just under 160,000 pounds(187,600 euros, 267,700 dollars) from June,but were down 12.1 percent over 12 months,a survey from home-loans provider Halifaxshowed this week.

In neighboring Ireland, however, priceshave fallen by up to 40 percent from theirpeak in 2006 and are still going down —with the government now working to pro-vide 90 billion euros in guarantees to theloan market.

Likewise, Spain’s second-biggest bankBBVA has forecast that house prices aftera decade-long, tourism-fuelled propertyboom will still fall by nearly 30 percent be-tween 2008 and 2011 before they start torecover.

In the Gulf emirate of Dubai, houseprices have almost halved over the past year.The sector there is struggling with a short-age of liquidity and job security for expa-triates who represent over 80 percent of thepopulation.

The decline in Dubai has had widerimplications, with US bank Morgan Stanleysaying world steel production will remainbelow 75 percent capacity as it awaits a re-vival in the construction sector in the MiddleEast.

Agence France-PresseWASHINGTON - Even as the US economy

seems to be emerging from recession, the Fed-eral Reserve is likely to signal it will maintainextraordinary efforts to spur growth until a re-covery takes root, analysts say.

The Federal Open Market Committee meet-ing Tuesday and Wednesday is widely expectedto keep on hold the ultra low federal funds ratesin a range of zero to 0.25 percent to stimulatelending and prop up economic activity.

The Fed led by Chairman Ben Bernankecould make some changes however in its spe-cial efforts to pump over one trillion dollars ofliquidity into the financial system — which somecall “quantitative easing” — that may no longerbe needed, say some economists.

“We expect the Fed to sound more confi-dent about the outlook by noting that theeconomy appears set to grow in the second halfof the year,” said Dean Maki, economist atBarclays Capital, who argues that the latest re-ports support the view “that the US recessionended in June.”

“In light of this, we do not expect it to ex-pand its 300 billion-dollar Treasury (bond) buy-ing program, which is set to be completed inmid-September.”

Other analysts note that the Fed has a deli-cate task of keeping inflation expectations incheck while instilling confidence in the recov-ery without creating any new bubbles.

“They probably don’t want to be too pessi-mistic,” said Cary Leahey, senior economist atDecision Economics. “But they want to temperthe enthusiasm of the market” about economicrecovery.

ReutersWASHINGTON - President Barack

Obama said on Friday the latest U.S. un-employment figures showed the worst maybe over in the economic crisis but acknowl-edged there was more work to be done toput the economy back on track.

“This morning we receive additionalsigns that the worst may be behind us,”Obama said in an appearance in the WhiteHouse Rose Garden after a government re-port that the U.S. jobless rate in July fellfor the first time in 15 months.

Obama sought to cast in the best pos-sible light the latest economic data despiteeconomists view that economy has a longway to go to recover from one of the worstrecessions since the Great Depression ofthe 1930s.

Obama’s speech came at the end of a

Obama: Worst may beover in economic crisis

Fed to stay supportive evenwith economy healing

The latest economic figures show aneconomy that is still falling but narrowing itsdecline. Gross domestic product fell at a 1.0 per-cent pace in the second quarter, after a 6.4 per-cent plunge in the January-March period.

Even unemployment, the weak link in theeconomy, showed signs of improving.

The unemployment rate fell one-tenth of apoint to 9.4 percent in July as job losses narrowedto 247,000 from 443,000 in June.

“The payrolls report hints that the worst ofthe labor market crunch is over,” said KrishenRangasamy at CIBC World Markets.

But, while the US economy will see somegrowth in the second half of the year, growthwill be too mild to put a significant dent in theunemployment rate, which should continue tocreep higher.”

Few economists expect the Fed to make anychange to interest rates until early 2010, or ifemployment starts to grow. But the central bankis also likely to take pains to show it has an “exitstrategy” in place when needed.

Eugenio Aleman, senior economist at WellsFargo, said the Fed may have to be ready to hikerates once the economy shows it is recoveringon its own without artificial support of the cen-tral bank and various stimulus programs.

Joel Naroff of Naroff Economic Advisorssaid the Fed will seek to send a message “thatthey are seeing more and more places where theeconomy is beginning to stabilize or move for-ward.” But Naroff added: “They are not goingto declare the recession is over.”

He said there remains considerable fear thateven a small hike in rates could undermine anascent recovery.

week in which a Quinnipiac University pollshowed his job approval rating had droppedto 50 percent as Americans express doubtabout his handling of the U.S. economy andhealthcare.

“I’m convinced that we can see a lightat the end of the tunnel,” Obama declared,saying his policies had helped unfreezecredit and a rising market was restoringvalue to battered 401K savings plans.

“We’ve pulled the economy back fromthe brink,” he said.

But he added, “We have a lot further togo. We will not have a true recovery whilewe are still losing jobs.”

Employers shed 247,000 jobs in July,the Labor Department said on Friday, theleast in any one month since last August,taking the unemployment rate to 9.4 per-cent, down from 9.5 percent in June.

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People walk past the World Trade Center construction site, Friday, Aug. 7, 2009 in NewYork.President Barack Obama said on Friday the latest U.S. unemployment figures showedthe worst may be over in the economic crisis but acknowledged there was more work to bedone to put the economy back on track.

Police called on people to remainvigilant and stressed their counter-terrorist operations were ongoing, asthe military stepped up security forthe president.

“We have optimised and in-creased security for him and his fam-ily,” military spokesman SagomTamboen said.

“Based on the police informationthat there is a cell group that wantedto attack RI-1 (Yudhoyono), then weact according to the situation.”

National police spokesmanNanan Soekarna said it could taketwo weeks to confirm whetherNoordin was killed as heavily armedpolice riddled the squat farmhousewith bullets and explosions on Sat-urday morning.

“The whole process of DNA test-ing will take two weeks. It’s a stan-dard procedure,” he said.

The 25-year-old, his head par-tially shaven and large scars visibleon his scalp, greeted Krishna in theapartment where he had been recu-perating but was not well enoughto speak publicly.

His cousin Lakshmi Bongnanisaid Theerthala was progressingwell, although he had vision andmemory problems due to a braininjury suffered in the attack.

“It’s going to take a year or more(to recuperate),” Bongnani told re-porters. He said Krishna hadpledged that the Indian governmentwould provide whatever supportwas necessary. The foreign minis-ter, whose stated purpose in visit-ing Australia was to “get a clearersense of what is happening on theground”, declined to meet with adelegation of Indian students afterhis audience with Theerthala.

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“The test is being conducted at theKramat Jati police hospital,” headded, referring to a hospital inJakarta where the body of the mili-tant found in the farmhouse wastaken after the siege.

National police chief BambangHendarso Danuri said late Saturdaythat the identification process wouldtake less than a week.

Noordin, 40, a Malaysian Islam-ist, has been blamed for multiple ter-ror attacks against “iconic” Westerntargets in Indonesia which havekilled around 50 people and injuredhundreds since 2003.

The latest were believed to havebeen the July 17 twin suicide bomb-ings on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in the capital, whichkilled seven people including sixforeigners, plus the two bombers.

A member of the JemaahIslamiyah regional terror group re-sponsible for the 2002 Bali attackswhich killed more than 200 people,he split to form his own even more

violent network to “defend Islam” fromperceived injustice.

The self-proclaimed leader of “Al-Qaeda in the Malay Archipelago” wasone of Asia’s most wanted men and hada 100,000-dollar bounty on his headfrom the Indonesian government, whosaw him as public enemy number one.

The police raid on his suspectedhideout overshadowed other operationsincluding the arrest of five of Noordin’salleged accomplices and the uncover-ing of a major bomb factory in Bekasi,outside Jakarta.

Two would-be suicide bomberswere shot dead by police early Satur-day at their rented house in Bekasi asthey tried to resist arrest, police said.

Police chief Danuri said they hadrigged a small truck as a bomb and wereplanning to launch a suicide attackagainst Yudhoyono’s main residence,which is a 12-minute drive away.

The attack had been planned to takeplace around Indonesia’s IndependenceDay on August 17, and had been or-dered by Noordin during a meeting on

April 30 as revenge for the execu-tion of the Bali bombers late lastyear, Danuri said.

Police have come close to arrest-ing Noordin several times in the pastand have captured or killed some ofhis closest associates during a six-year manhunt.

Analysts said his death would bea blow to his network, estimated tonumber as few as 30 hardcore cad-res, but would not end the terrorthreat in the world’s most populousMuslim-majority country.

“Every time there was an attack,there were new accomplices,” Insti-tute for International Peacebuildingresearcher Taufik Andrie said.

“There are several people whohave the potential to replaceNoordin.”

He said he doubted the reportsthat Noordin had been killed.

“The dead guy doesn’t seem tobe Noordin. He has impeccable in-stincts for evading police raids,” hesaid.

After also leaving tens of thou-sands trapped in Taiwan, the pow-erful storm landed in China’s Fujianprovince at 4:20 pm (0820 GMT),the provincial meteorological bu-reau said.

Morakot pounded Taiwan overthe weekend with powerful windsand torrential rain, forcing the gov-ernment to deploy the military torescue stranded residents, officialssaid.

Television footage showed awoman in tears reporting that herdaughter and husband had plungedinto a river when a flash flood sweptaway their car in Taiwan’s centralcounty of Nantou.

“My daughter called me twicesaying: ‘We’re being washed away!Hurry, hurry!’ Then I lost them,”the sobbing woman told reporters.

Officials said three people wereconfirmed dead and at least another31 were missing as Morakotdumped a record 2.5 metres (100inches) of rain on the southern Tai-wanese county of Pingtung.

At least 10,000 people weretrapped in three coastal townships,Pingtung deputy magistrate ChungChia-pin said, and officials said tensof thousands of other people werealso trapped in the counties ofTainan and Chiayi.

“This is the worst flooding inChiayi in 50 years,” county magis-trate Chen Ming-wen told reporters,issuing a plea for more rubber din-

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ghies and water pumps.A typhoon in August 1959 killed

667 people and left some 1,000missing in Taiwan.

Across the Taiwan Strait, morethan 505,000 people had beenevacuated from the Fujian coastand another 490,000 were relocatedin the neighbouring province ofZhejiang, the Xinhua news agencyreported.

Zhejiang issued a red alert ear-lier Sunday as it registered a maxi-mum wind speed of nearly 180kilometres (113 miles) an houraround the coastal city of Taizhou,Xinhua said.

Gale-force winds were expectedto persist for at least three days andwaves were forecast to reach as highas seven meters, it said.

More than 35,000 ships werecalled in to port as the storm ap-proached, Xinhua quoted Zhejiangflood-control headquarters as saying.

A cargo ship was stranded in therough seas and rescuers were try-ing to rescue its eight sailors, theagency reported.

Xinhua said the ship, Daqing254, lost control and was blownonto a reef area on Qingshan Islandnear Fujian’s Ningde City early Sun-day as it tried to shelter from thewind.

Among the missing in Taiwanwere 14 workers who disappearedwhen their makeshift shelter besidea river in southern Kaohsiung county

was washed away by rising flood-waters early Sunday.

Armoured vehicles and marinelanding craft, as well as rubber din-ghies, were mobilised in a rescueoperation involving at least 1,200troops, Taiwan’s defence ministrysaid.

The troops were distributing foodand drinking water to residents af-fected by the flooding, which in

some places had gone as high as the firststorey of buildings.

Television footage showed a six-storey hotel in Taipung, southeasternTaiwan, collapsing in the floods. Staffand guests had already been evacuated,the reports said.

The typhoon has caused at least 832million Taiwan dollars (26 million US)in agricultural damage and temporarilycut electricity to more than one million

households, according to officials.Morakot also left flooding and

landslides in its wake after grazingthe Philippines on its way to Tai-wan.

The Manila government’s civildefence office said the storm had lefta total of 21 people dead includingtwo French tourists and a Belgian,with seven other people still miss-ing.

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A collapsed hotel building is seen in heavily flooded river after Typhoon Morakot hit Taitungcounty, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, in Taitung County, eastern Taiwan. The six-story hotel collapsedand plunged into a river Sunday morning after floodwaters eroded its base, but all 300 people inthe hotel were evacuated and uninjured, officials said.

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“Within five years, Ford expectsto have reduced the age of its glo-bal product portfolio by 20 per-cent,” the company said this week.

In July, Ford reported a 2.3 per-cent increase in auto sales — thefirst month it has posted a year-over-year gain since November2007.

The company acknowledgedthat the positive movement was

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DETROIT - Ford Motor Company, the only one of the country’sBig Three automakers to avoid bankruptcy, has pledged to accelerateits new product lines as it tries to consolidate a four-year turnaroundeffort.

mostly due to the government’s“cash for clunkers” program, whichsubsidized the cost of new cars forsome Americans, but analysts areupbeat about Ford’s overall health.

“We think Ford could be profit-able (on a sustained basis) by the endof 2009,” said Deutsche Bank ana-lyst Rod Lache.

In an attempt to capitalize on thatmomentum, Ford is preparing to wheel

out several new and revived lines, in-cluding the 2010 Ford Taurus.

“This isn’t about staying thecourse. It’s about prospering afterthe downturn,” said Lewis Booth,Ford’s chief financial officer.

Ford officially launched its newadvertising campaign for the 2010Ford Taurus bolstered by a positivesafety rating from Insurance Insti-tute for Highway Safety.

Others are more skeptical, andFord marketing director Matt VanDyke acknowledges that while theTaurus has strong name recognition,the brand’s popularity could standto be strengthened.

The company hopes to make that

happen through an aggressive adver-tising campaign that will use televi-sion, newspapers and a broad digi-tal campaign.

The 2010 Taurus is priced at25,995 dollars, the same as the out-going model, but Ford’s advertisingcampaign will compare its technol-ogy and other features against moreexpensive luxury sedans from Audi,Lexus, Acura and Infiniti.

“We aren’t trying to put Taurusin a luxury market,” said JonathanBeebe of the Ford digital launch in-tegration team in a company pressrelease, however.

Ford is partnering with Microsoft toemphasize the Taurus’ high-tech fea-

tures, creating adverts with barcodesthat smartphone users can scan to ac-cess information about the car.

“The convenience and ability tooffer customers additional informa-tion at the touch of their mobile de-vice speaks volumes on how tech-nologically advanced the new Tau-rus is,” Van Dyke said.

Ford will also focus on its largelymale target customer demographicby heavily advertising on sportsbroadcasts this fall.

The company is planning to bringits hit Ford Fiesta from Europe to theUnited States and add more fuel ef-ficient models to its US productlines.

Data has now becoming a newbattle field for cellular operators inIndonesia. They stop luring new cus-tomers with cheap tariff on voice andshort message. Almost all operatorsstart shifting their strategy to be-come the market leader in thisemerging market.

Indonesia as one of potential tele-communication markets for thesepast few years has been growing rap-idly. In fact, Data from Informationand Communication Departmentshows that the numbers of cellularphone users in Indonesia keep in-creasing. Over 20 million Indone-sians now own mobile phones, rep-resenting roughly 12 percent of thecountry’s 233 millions populations.

From 10 operators that operate inIndonesia, both GSM and CDMAnetwork, Telkomsel has the biggestportion of customers, it is also theoldest. It serves 77 million users asin the mid 2009. In the second placeis Indosat with 33.3 million custom-ers, the third is Excelcomindo thathas 24.9 million users as per firstquarter of 2009. Meanwhile othersserve small portion of telecommu-nication users in Indonesia whichstill growing tremendously.

If now we travel around Indonesia,we rarely find blank spots. Almostevery area in Indonesia already cov-ered with cellular phone network. Infact, Telkomsel as the oldest cellulartelecommunication provider have cov-ering 95 percent of Indonesia area andwill be covering 100 percent if theysucceed in implementing the Univer-sal Service Obligation (USO) programthat create by government to providerural area with telecommunication andinformation system.

Fourteen years after the first tele-communication provider establish inIndonesia, the need of telecommu-

National Defense Forces (TNI)Chief Gen Djoko Santoso here onSunday said hundreds of security per-sonnel have been deployed to tightenthe security around the president’sresidence following early Saturdaymorning’s discovery of hundreds ofkilograms of explosive material at ahouse in Bekasi, West Java.

The large cache of explosive ma-terial was uncovered at a house in PuriNusaphala complex in Jati Asih,Bekasi, which was reportedly used asa base by Noordin Muhammad Top,a Malaysian extremist wanted formasterminding a series of suicidebombing in Indonesia.

“We are automatically keepingabreast of the threats of terrorismand security disturbance,” DjokoSantoso said, adding that the secu-rity to the president would continueto be tightened until the situationreturns to normal.

Anti terror police on Saturdaymorning confiscated hundreds of ki-lograms of explosive materials in araid on the house of terror suspects inJatiasih, Bekasi, and killed two terror

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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (C) speaks to journalists during a press conference atthe presidential palace in Jakarta on August 8, 2009. Police on Sunday tightened security at the privateresidence of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at Puri Cikeas in Bogor.

The New Era of Communication Invading Indonesia (1)Operators fighting over mobile data users

nication service becoming more so-phisticated. Nowadays customersnot only use cellular phone to com-municate through voice and shortmessage, they also need data ser-vices. That’s why operators areworking hard in this field and try totake a bigger portion of the market.

Data has now becoming the newfield for operators to compete, asinternet users in Indonesia growing.Based on the figures that released byInternet World Stats, until the endof 2008 internet users in Indonesiaare 25 millions people. This num-bers has grown rapidly around 1,150percent comparing to the year 2000.Still based on the figures, majorityusers came from productive agesrange between 15 to 29 years old.

The increasing numbers ofinternet users in Indonesia are causeby the cheaper tariff that being of-fered by cellular operators and otherbroadband providers. The tariff fordata services becoming muchcheaper than before and the speedof the data service also increase.Thus make customers more comfort-able when they using internet tocommunicate or support their work.

The data services will surely bethe future income for operators. Thisindication, according to Telecom-munication observer Herry S.W, canbe seen by the way operators tun-neling their investment to increasebroadband network, especially tointernational roaming. The observerthat bases his office at Surabayastated this comment a half year agowhen he speaking at gathering thatconducted by Telkomsel. He saidvoice and short message will be lessalluring for operators because theyare continuing decreasing.

Herry mentioned that mobile dataservices have become an important

tool for generating revenue now thatmobile handsets are used not only forvoice calls but also for non-voice ser-vices such as messaging, music,video, etc. The shift in focus fromvoice to data services has largely beendue to the decreasing growth of voicerevenue and the increasing pressureon voice margins.

‘’As voice becomescommoditized, mobile operatorsneed to look at other sources to gen-erate income and this has providedthe impetus to formulate and imple-ment strategies to create successfuldata services that help increase over-all data average revenue per user(ARPU),” he argued.

Now, half year later, the operatorsseem more aggressive in this data ser-vices field. The biggest operator,Telkomsel, said it started to double itsinternational broadband network tomeet the consumers need. ‘’Telkomselcontinue to develop broadband net-work, especially those that can con-nect to international because around85 percent mobile data users inTelkomsel network are include in thatcategory,” Leong Shin Loong, Direc-tor of Commerce Telkomsel said.

Loong admitted that until now voiceand short message still dominate thebiggest portion of Telkomsel’s revenue.Meanwhile data services only donatea small income for the operator that hasa vision to become The Best MobileLifestyle Provider. Telkomsel is notstanding alone with this problem,Indosat, Excelcomindo, and othersGSM operators also fighting to createmore income from data services. Theyare working hard on creating interest-ing products for customers. But stillthere are lots to be learned before cus-tomers in Indonesia accustomed to usemobile data services as their main tele-communication tool. (iah)

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JAKARTA - Renowned Indone-sian poet and playwright WSRendra, died of a heart ailment onThursday. Thousands of mournersattended his funeral on Friday.

Since Friday morning, mournerscame to pay their last respects to thedeceased who laid to temporary restat his home in Depok, West Java,including fellow artists and publicdignitaries.

President Susilo BambangYudhoyono expressed his deep con-dolences on the passing of the greatIndonesian poet.

Minister/State Secretary HattaRadjasa said at the presidential pal-ace on Friday President Yudhoyonopersonally conveyed his condo-lences to WS Rendra’s family.

“The President expressed deepcondolences over the death of thegreat culturalist. He expressed hispersonal sympathy,” Hatta said.

Citing Rendra’s role as a coura-

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WS Rendra passedaway of heart ailment

geous critic of the past authoritarianregime, the president said Rendrawas an extraordinary figure of histime, Hatta said.

Hatta said the government wasstill considering proposals to giveRendra the title of “national hero.”

“It is my understanding he hasalready received the highest awardin the field of arts from the state,” hesaid.

Born in Solo, Central Java, in1935 Willobrordus Surendra BrotoRendra passed away at MitraKeluarga Hospital in Depok, WestJava, at around 21.30pm.

Rendra’s daughter Clara Shintasaid her father was first treated in ahospital in Cinere for a week as ofJune 25, 2009 before being movedto Harapan Kita Hospital and thenMitra Keluarga Hospital in KelapaGading, North Jakarta. He was al-lowed to leave the hospital on Au-gust 4 but on August 7 he had a re-lapse and died at Mitra Hospital inDepok at around 21.30pm.

Antara

JAKARTA - Police on Sunday tightened security at the private resi-dence of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at Puri Cikeas in Bogor.

suspects who threatened to detonategrenades when they were to be ar-rested. The police also seized a ready-made bomb in a Daihatsu Xenia vanon Jalan Krangan, Bekasi.

National Police Chief GeneralBambang Hendarso Danuri said whenvisiting the site of the raids that thebomb in the car was prepared for nextterror actions.

“A car with a bomb in it was madeready for an action in the next twoweeks’ time. The target had also beenset,” he said.

Following the bombings at JWMarriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels lastJuly 17, the police’s Special Detach-ment 88 anti-terror unit had worked touncover the perpetrators of the bomb-ings and their network.

For three weeks the police hadchased the suspects in Temanggung,in Central Java, Bekasi in West Javaand Solo in Central Java.

He said the terrorist suspect whohad been seized following the raid inBekasi was Amir Abdillah, the onewho booked Room 1808 at the JWMarriott Hotel.

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I Gede Alit Widana, the head of Denpasar Precinct, said “we stillon high alert even if the news about Noordin M Top died in the gunbattle with the police are true.” He added that the act of terrorism cannot be predicted and can happen anywhere and anytime, so Bali Po-lice Department will keep the security maintenance pattern for in-definite length of time.

Widana said “we have the personnel patrolling all around theisland and we also increasing the security level in the vital placessuch as Ngurah Rai Airport, tourism sites, hotels including Nusa Dua.”

The police department is also preparing to safeguard several in-ternational events which will be held in Bali. “Our law area as aninternational tourism destination makes bigger possibility to becomethe target of terrorism act. That’s why we don’t want the similarthing few weeks ago in Jakarta happen again,” said Widana.

In addition to searching everyone entering Denpasar, the policeofficers also conducted special operation to searched vehicles on thestreet. The police department also spread undercover police to exam-ine the area vulnerable to be entered by the terrorists.

From the latest results, there was no suspicious person inDenpasar area. Widana said “we don’t want to be carried away withthe death news of Noordin. We will keep maintaining the securitylevel as long as it takes.”

Bali stillBali stillBali stillBali stillBali stillalert evenalert evenalert evenalert evenalert evenNoordinNoordinNoordinNoordinNoordindieddieddieddieddied

Antara DENPASAR – Bali Police

Department, spread the pictures ofIbrohim alias Aam or Boim, the sus-pect involved in the bomb blast inJW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton ho-tels in Jakarta on July 17th 2009.

Gde Sugianyar, the head ofPublic Relation Division in Bali Po-lice Department, said that the pic-tures placed in public places suchas terminals, markets, and others.This was done in order to give in-formation to the people and help incapturing the suspect. The pic-tures released by the Anti TerrorSpecial Force 88 registered on July29th 2009 regarding wanted personby the name Ibrohim alias Aam orBoim. The first picture describe thesuspect has “baby face” look, wideforehead, straight black hair, thinlips,dark skin, height approximately170 centimeter, and using Indone-sia-Sunda dialect.

The second one describe thesuspect has the similar appearancebut using back hat. “If you seesomeone with similar description,please report to the nearest policestation,” Mr. Sugianyar said. In ad-dition to spread the pictures, the

Jukut urab(Mixed Vegetables with Grated Coconut)

Ingredients:100 gr (3 ½ oz) blanched cabbage100 gr (3 ½ oz) spinach, blanched100 gr (3 ½ oz) long beans cut in 32,5 cm(line) pieces, blanched100 gr (3 ½ oz) bean sprouts, blanched1 large red chili,

sliced1 tbsp grated

coconut2 tbsp fr ied

shallotsDressings:2 tbsp fr ied

shallots2 tbsp sliced

garlic clove1 large red chili,

seeded and sliced2 tsp fried chili

(Sambal Sereh Tabia)3 fragrant lime leaves, very finely sliced4 cm (1½ in) kencur, peeled & chopped¼ teaspoon salt¼ teaspoon crushed black pepper½ teaspoon white sugar1 tablespoon oilPreparation:1. Cut cabbage into pieces about 2,5 cm by 1 cm (1 in by ½ in).2. Combine all vegetables, chili, grated coconut and fried

shallots in salad bowl and mix well.For the dressing:Combine all ingredients and mix well in separate bowl.

Mix the dressing thoroughly with the vegetables; season totaste with salt, pepper and limejuice. Serve at roomtemperature. (http://www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Sate lilit bebek(Minced Duck Satay)(Minced Duck Satay)(Minced Duck Satay)(Minced Duck Satay)(Minced Duck Satay)

Ingredients:Ingredients:Ingredients:Ingredients:Ingredients:600 gr duck or chicken meat, minced2 cups freshly grated coconut5 kaffir lime leaves, very finely shredded1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed1 tsp salt3-5 bird’s eye chilies, very finely chopped2 tbsp chopped palm sugarlemon grass or satay skewersSpice paste:Spice paste:Spice paste:Spice paste:Spice paste:12 shallots, peeled and sliced6 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced3 red chilies, sliced2.5 cm galangal (laos), peeled and sliced2.5 cm kencur, peeled and sliced5 cm fresh turmeric, peeled and sliced2 tsp coriander½ tsp black peppercorn3 candlenuts1 tsp dried shrimp pastepinch of freshly grated nutmeg2 cloves2 tbsp oilPreparation:Preparation:Preparation:Preparation:Preparation:Grind or blend all spice paste ingredients except oil. Heat oil and

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DENPASAR – Even tough there was a report saying that themost wanted terrorist, Noordin M Top, had been killed but Bali’sPolice Department still alert and increasing the security level.

Bali Police spread Marriottbomber’ suspect pictures

police officers also searched every-one and vehicles entering Bali.

Ida, a florist in Denpasar, saidthat she will report to the police ifshe sees someone similar to the one

Today, children have unlimitedchoices of games. They have beenpampered by modern games, rang-ing from Turtle Ninja, Kung Fu, wargames and many more. These canmake them stay for hours in front oftelevision or computer. Yet, behindthis ease and enjoyment, they losesome values like creativity and donot know they have traditionalgames.

It is said so because there is atrend where children, both in urbanand rural areas, begin to leave theirtraditional games. Many game op-tions have been available in the formof CD, DVD, Internet and cartoonin television. Just by CD rental orbuying the cheapest one and sittingdown sweetly, they could enjoy thegames they like best. If the gamescontain competition, they will com-pete against machine or some timesagainst friends. Without realized,this may result in sight disorderwhere children should gaze the

A Hidden Treasure of Children Heritagemonitor and finally require thickglasses at earlier age.

Advancement is not alwaysbad. However, parents should con-trol them to what extent those gamescould drive good impact. Before thepresence of these modern games,there were many traditional games.They are no less interesting than themodern ones. Many children evenfind it attractive and make them cre-ative.

Art parade of Bali Arts Festi-val 2009 has shown the treasure oftraditional games. This event is justlike a kaleidoscope highlighting avariety of traditional games that everexisted within the life of Balinesechildren. To play one of the games,children should first search for itsmaterials by themselves at backyardor garden. Actually, it is here wherethe challenge of the games begins.Sometimes, they got injury becausethey are unable to use a knife prop-erly. It did not matter as intriguing

power has superseded it. Among the parade, there was

a space intended for children worldwhere they displayed some bizarregames like coconut shell clog, walk-ing on stilts, pulling friend by thesheath of areca nut, pulling rope in-group and two-wheeled toy whereits stick carried on shoulder. Mean-while, the heavier one was gallivant-ing show by barong effigy.

To play the coconut shell clog,for instance, they should keep theirbalance well. Standing on the tips ofcoconut shell is not easy. Moreover,they have to maintain the harmonyof steps with the pulling of rope con-nected to each coconut shell. Whenthe pull and steps can go harmoni-ously, the player can walk faster.Balance is also entailed in walkingon stilts or tajog or egrang. Thisgame is even riskier because theposition of pedal is higher from theground. However, when a player canoperate these stilts properly it is

more challenging and pleasant. Thehigher the pedal the more challeng-ing it is. Walking on stilts looks likea walking long-legged heron. Itwould be more interesting whenpassing through a muddy or knee-deep watery road. These games areoften put into competition related totraditional sports.

Another game requiring coop-eration is pulling the sheath of arecanut. If the bean of areca nut is usedby grandfathers or grandmothers foringredient of chewing betel, thesheath of it is used by their grand-children to make ‘a pulling vehicle’.Yellow leaf signifies it has beenmature. It is time for children to takeit. They just need to leave out theribs of leaf. The main rib is not cutas it will be used to pull. One childserves as passenger while anotheras driver who pulls the sheath. Thisrole is exchanged so both can havean opportunity to enjoy the ‘com-fort’ of this vehicle game.

Children also put an interestin dancing barong gallivantingshow. For them, it has been de-signed a smaller-sized barong.Therefore, before growing adultthey have been introduced to artworld of adult people. By perform-ing gallivanting show like this, theywill obtain experience and earnmoney. However, the emphasishere is not on the money, but on theexperience and fun.

Actually, there are more tra-ditional games that once lived inmidst of Balinese community. Ihope that Bali Arts Festival haverevealed them one by one so younggeneration can know their tradi-tional heritages. Maybe, havingwatched or played modern gamesthey could combine with the tradi-tional ones they have. At least, thetraditional can become an alterna-tive, as all raw materials have beenavailable at their surroundings.(BTN/punia)(BTN/punia)(BTN/punia)(BTN/punia)(BTN/punia)

AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

An Indonesian policeman stands next to a poster of Malaysian Islamist Noordin Mohammed Top, theman allegedly behind a series of suicide bombings in Indonesia dating back to 2003 and one of Asia’smost-wanted and elusive militant leaders, at Denpasar airport on August 8, 2009. Even tough therewas a report saying that the most wanted terrorist, Noordin M Top, had been killed but Bali’s PoliceDepartment still alert and increasing the security level.

in the pictures. “This is our obliga-tion. We must help in arresting theterrorist. The terrorists also must bepunished so they will not conductany terrible act,” she added.

Bali Post/EkaA police officer showing the picture of Ibrohim alias Aam or Boim. Boimis one of the suspect involved in the bomb blast in JW Marriott andRitz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta on July 17th 2009.

Balinese CultureMonday, August 10, 2009 98 InternationalMonday, August 10, 2009

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I Gede Alit Widana, the head of Denpasar Precinct, said “we stillon high alert even if the news about Noordin M Top died in the gunbattle with the police are true.” He added that the act of terrorism cannot be predicted and can happen anywhere and anytime, so Bali Po-lice Department will keep the security maintenance pattern for in-definite length of time.

Widana said “we have the personnel patrolling all around theisland and we also increasing the security level in the vital placessuch as Ngurah Rai Airport, tourism sites, hotels including Nusa Dua.”

The police department is also preparing to safeguard several in-ternational events which will be held in Bali. “Our law area as aninternational tourism destination makes bigger possibility to becomethe target of terrorism act. That’s why we don’t want the similarthing few weeks ago in Jakarta happen again,” said Widana.

In addition to searching everyone entering Denpasar, the policeofficers also conducted special operation to searched vehicles on thestreet. The police department also spread undercover police to exam-ine the area vulnerable to be entered by the terrorists.

From the latest results, there was no suspicious person inDenpasar area. Widana said “we don’t want to be carried away withthe death news of Noordin. We will keep maintaining the securitylevel as long as it takes.”

Bali stillBali stillBali stillBali stillBali stillalert evenalert evenalert evenalert evenalert evenNoordinNoordinNoordinNoordinNoordindieddieddieddieddied

Antara DENPASAR – Bali Police

Department, spread the pictures ofIbrohim alias Aam or Boim, the sus-pect involved in the bomb blast inJW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton ho-tels in Jakarta on July 17th 2009.

Gde Sugianyar, the head ofPublic Relation Division in Bali Po-lice Department, said that the pic-tures placed in public places suchas terminals, markets, and others.This was done in order to give in-formation to the people and help incapturing the suspect. The pic-tures released by the Anti TerrorSpecial Force 88 registered on July29th 2009 regarding wanted personby the name Ibrohim alias Aam orBoim. The first picture describe thesuspect has “baby face” look, wideforehead, straight black hair, thinlips,dark skin, height approximately170 centimeter, and using Indone-sia-Sunda dialect.

The second one describe thesuspect has the similar appearancebut using back hat. “If you seesomeone with similar description,please report to the nearest policestation,” Mr. Sugianyar said. In ad-dition to spread the pictures, the

Jukut urab(Mixed Vegetables with Grated Coconut)

Ingredients:100 gr (3 ½ oz) blanched cabbage100 gr (3 ½ oz) spinach, blanched100 gr (3 ½ oz) long beans cut in 32,5 cm(line) pieces, blanched100 gr (3 ½ oz) bean sprouts, blanched1 large red chili,

sliced1 tbsp grated

coconut2 tbsp fr ied

shallotsDressings:2 tbsp fr ied

shallots2 tbsp sliced

garlic clove1 large red chili,

seeded and sliced2 tsp fried chili

(Sambal Sereh Tabia)3 fragrant lime leaves, very finely sliced4 cm (1½ in) kencur, peeled & chopped¼ teaspoon salt¼ teaspoon crushed black pepper½ teaspoon white sugar1 tablespoon oilPreparation:1. Cut cabbage into pieces about 2,5 cm by 1 cm (1 in by ½ in).2. Combine all vegetables, chili, grated coconut and fried

shallots in salad bowl and mix well.For the dressing:Combine all ingredients and mix well in separate bowl.

Mix the dressing thoroughly with the vegetables; season totaste with salt, pepper and limejuice. Serve at roomtemperature. (http://www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Sate lilit bebek(Minced Duck Satay)(Minced Duck Satay)(Minced Duck Satay)(Minced Duck Satay)(Minced Duck Satay)

Ingredients:Ingredients:Ingredients:Ingredients:Ingredients:600 gr duck or chicken meat, minced2 cups freshly grated coconut5 kaffir lime leaves, very finely shredded1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed1 tsp salt3-5 bird’s eye chilies, very finely chopped2 tbsp chopped palm sugarlemon grass or satay skewersSpice paste:Spice paste:Spice paste:Spice paste:Spice paste:12 shallots, peeled and sliced6 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced3 red chilies, sliced2.5 cm galangal (laos), peeled and sliced2.5 cm kencur, peeled and sliced5 cm fresh turmeric, peeled and sliced2 tsp coriander½ tsp black peppercorn3 candlenuts1 tsp dried shrimp pastepinch of freshly grated nutmeg2 cloves2 tbsp oilPreparation:Preparation:Preparation:Preparation:Preparation:Grind or blend all spice paste ingredients except oil. Heat oil and

sauté spice paste for about 5 minutes. Cool then combine with duckand all other ingredients except lemon grass. Mould about 2 table-spoonfuls on lemon grass or skewers and grill over hot charcoal andgolden brown. (http://www.baliguide.com/balifood)(http://www.baliguide.com/balifood)(http://www.baliguide.com/balifood)(http://www.baliguide.com/balifood)(http://www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Antara

DENPASAR – Even tough there was a report saying that themost wanted terrorist, Noordin M Top, had been killed but Bali’sPolice Department still alert and increasing the security level.

Bali Police spread Marriottbomber’ suspect pictures

police officers also searched every-one and vehicles entering Bali.

Ida, a florist in Denpasar, saidthat she will report to the police ifshe sees someone similar to the one

Today, children have unlimitedchoices of games. They have beenpampered by modern games, rang-ing from Turtle Ninja, Kung Fu, wargames and many more. These canmake them stay for hours in front oftelevision or computer. Yet, behindthis ease and enjoyment, they losesome values like creativity and donot know they have traditionalgames.

It is said so because there is atrend where children, both in urbanand rural areas, begin to leave theirtraditional games. Many game op-tions have been available in the formof CD, DVD, Internet and cartoonin television. Just by CD rental orbuying the cheapest one and sittingdown sweetly, they could enjoy thegames they like best. If the gamescontain competition, they will com-pete against machine or some timesagainst friends. Without realized,this may result in sight disorderwhere children should gaze the

A Hidden Treasure of Children Heritagemonitor and finally require thickglasses at earlier age.

Advancement is not alwaysbad. However, parents should con-trol them to what extent those gamescould drive good impact. Before thepresence of these modern games,there were many traditional games.They are no less interesting than themodern ones. Many children evenfind it attractive and make them cre-ative.

Art parade of Bali Arts Festi-val 2009 has shown the treasure oftraditional games. This event is justlike a kaleidoscope highlighting avariety of traditional games that everexisted within the life of Balinesechildren. To play one of the games,children should first search for itsmaterials by themselves at backyardor garden. Actually, it is here wherethe challenge of the games begins.Sometimes, they got injury becausethey are unable to use a knife prop-erly. It did not matter as intriguing

power has superseded it. Among the parade, there was

a space intended for children worldwhere they displayed some bizarregames like coconut shell clog, walk-ing on stilts, pulling friend by thesheath of areca nut, pulling rope in-group and two-wheeled toy whereits stick carried on shoulder. Mean-while, the heavier one was gallivant-ing show by barong effigy.

To play the coconut shell clog,for instance, they should keep theirbalance well. Standing on the tips ofcoconut shell is not easy. Moreover,they have to maintain the harmonyof steps with the pulling of rope con-nected to each coconut shell. Whenthe pull and steps can go harmoni-ously, the player can walk faster.Balance is also entailed in walkingon stilts or tajog or egrang. Thisgame is even riskier because theposition of pedal is higher from theground. However, when a player canoperate these stilts properly it is

more challenging and pleasant. Thehigher the pedal the more challeng-ing it is. Walking on stilts looks likea walking long-legged heron. Itwould be more interesting whenpassing through a muddy or knee-deep watery road. These games areoften put into competition related totraditional sports.

Another game requiring coop-eration is pulling the sheath of arecanut. If the bean of areca nut is usedby grandfathers or grandmothers foringredient of chewing betel, thesheath of it is used by their grand-children to make ‘a pulling vehicle’.Yellow leaf signifies it has beenmature. It is time for children to takeit. They just need to leave out theribs of leaf. The main rib is not cutas it will be used to pull. One childserves as passenger while anotheras driver who pulls the sheath. Thisrole is exchanged so both can havean opportunity to enjoy the ‘com-fort’ of this vehicle game.

Children also put an interestin dancing barong gallivantingshow. For them, it has been de-signed a smaller-sized barong.Therefore, before growing adultthey have been introduced to artworld of adult people. By perform-ing gallivanting show like this, theywill obtain experience and earnmoney. However, the emphasishere is not on the money, but on theexperience and fun.

Actually, there are more tra-ditional games that once lived inmidst of Balinese community. Ihope that Bali Arts Festival haverevealed them one by one so younggeneration can know their tradi-tional heritages. Maybe, havingwatched or played modern gamesthey could combine with the tradi-tional ones they have. At least, thetraditional can become an alterna-tive, as all raw materials have beenavailable at their surroundings.(BTN/punia)(BTN/punia)(BTN/punia)(BTN/punia)(BTN/punia)

AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

An Indonesian policeman stands next to a poster of Malaysian Islamist Noordin Mohammed Top, theman allegedly behind a series of suicide bombings in Indonesia dating back to 2003 and one of Asia’smost-wanted and elusive militant leaders, at Denpasar airport on August 8, 2009. Even tough therewas a report saying that the most wanted terrorist, Noordin M Top, had been killed but Bali’s PoliceDepartment still alert and increasing the security level.

in the pictures. “This is our obliga-tion. We must help in arresting theterrorist. The terrorists also must bepunished so they will not conductany terrible act,” she added.

Bali Post/EkaA police officer showing the picture of Ibrohim alias Aam or Boim. Boimis one of the suspect involved in the bomb blast in JW Marriott andRitz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta on July 17th 2009.

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“This isn’t about staying thecourse. It’s about prospering afterthe downturn,” said Lewis Booth,Ford’s chief financial officer.

Ford officially launched its newadvertising campaign for the 2010Ford Taurus bolstered by a positivesafety rating from Insurance Insti-tute for Highway Safety.

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The 2010 Taurus is priced at25,995 dollars, the same as the out-going model, but Ford’s advertisingcampaign will compare its technol-ogy and other features against moreexpensive luxury sedans from Audi,Lexus, Acura and Infiniti.

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Ford will also focus on its largelymale target customer demographicby heavily advertising on sportsbroadcasts this fall.

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Data has now becoming a newbattle field for cellular operators inIndonesia. They stop luring new cus-tomers with cheap tariff on voice andshort message. Almost all operatorsstart shifting their strategy to be-come the market leader in thisemerging market.

Indonesia as one of potential tele-communication markets for thesepast few years has been growing rap-idly. In fact, Data from Informationand Communication Departmentshows that the numbers of cellularphone users in Indonesia keep in-creasing. Over 20 million Indone-sians now own mobile phones, rep-resenting roughly 12 percent of thecountry’s 233 millions populations.

From 10 operators that operate inIndonesia, both GSM and CDMAnetwork, Telkomsel has the biggestportion of customers, it is also theoldest. It serves 77 million users asin the mid 2009. In the second placeis Indosat with 33.3 million custom-ers, the third is Excelcomindo thathas 24.9 million users as per firstquarter of 2009. Meanwhile othersserve small portion of telecommu-nication users in Indonesia whichstill growing tremendously.

If now we travel around Indonesia,we rarely find blank spots. Almostevery area in Indonesia already cov-ered with cellular phone network. Infact, Telkomsel as the oldest cellulartelecommunication provider have cov-ering 95 percent of Indonesia area andwill be covering 100 percent if theysucceed in implementing the Univer-sal Service Obligation (USO) programthat create by government to providerural area with telecommunication andinformation system.

Fourteen years after the first tele-communication provider establish inIndonesia, the need of telecommu-

National Defense Forces (TNI)Chief Gen Djoko Santoso here onSunday said hundreds of security per-sonnel have been deployed to tightenthe security around the president’sresidence following early Saturdaymorning’s discovery of hundreds ofkilograms of explosive material at ahouse in Bekasi, West Java.

The large cache of explosive ma-terial was uncovered at a house in PuriNusaphala complex in Jati Asih,Bekasi, which was reportedly used asa base by Noordin Muhammad Top,a Malaysian extremist wanted formasterminding a series of suicidebombing in Indonesia.

“We are automatically keepingabreast of the threats of terrorismand security disturbance,” DjokoSantoso said, adding that the secu-rity to the president would continueto be tightened until the situationreturns to normal.

Anti terror police on Saturdaymorning confiscated hundreds of ki-lograms of explosive materials in araid on the house of terror suspects inJatiasih, Bekasi, and killed two terror

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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (C) speaks to journalists during a press conference atthe presidential palace in Jakarta on August 8, 2009. Police on Sunday tightened security at the privateresidence of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at Puri Cikeas in Bogor.

The New Era of Communication Invading Indonesia (1)Operators fighting over mobile data users

nication service becoming more so-phisticated. Nowadays customersnot only use cellular phone to com-municate through voice and shortmessage, they also need data ser-vices. That’s why operators areworking hard in this field and try totake a bigger portion of the market.

Data has now becoming the newfield for operators to compete, asinternet users in Indonesia growing.Based on the figures that released byInternet World Stats, until the endof 2008 internet users in Indonesiaare 25 millions people. This num-bers has grown rapidly around 1,150percent comparing to the year 2000.Still based on the figures, majorityusers came from productive agesrange between 15 to 29 years old.

The increasing numbers ofinternet users in Indonesia are causeby the cheaper tariff that being of-fered by cellular operators and otherbroadband providers. The tariff fordata services becoming muchcheaper than before and the speedof the data service also increase.Thus make customers more comfort-able when they using internet tocommunicate or support their work.

The data services will surely bethe future income for operators. Thisindication, according to Telecom-munication observer Herry S.W, canbe seen by the way operators tun-neling their investment to increasebroadband network, especially tointernational roaming. The observerthat bases his office at Surabayastated this comment a half year agowhen he speaking at gathering thatconducted by Telkomsel. He saidvoice and short message will be lessalluring for operators because theyare continuing decreasing.

Herry mentioned that mobile dataservices have become an important

tool for generating revenue now thatmobile handsets are used not only forvoice calls but also for non-voice ser-vices such as messaging, music,video, etc. The shift in focus fromvoice to data services has largely beendue to the decreasing growth of voicerevenue and the increasing pressureon voice margins.

‘’As voice becomescommoditized, mobile operatorsneed to look at other sources to gen-erate income and this has providedthe impetus to formulate and imple-ment strategies to create successfuldata services that help increase over-all data average revenue per user(ARPU),” he argued.

Now, half year later, the operatorsseem more aggressive in this data ser-vices field. The biggest operator,Telkomsel, said it started to double itsinternational broadband network tomeet the consumers need. ‘’Telkomselcontinue to develop broadband net-work, especially those that can con-nect to international because around85 percent mobile data users inTelkomsel network are include in thatcategory,” Leong Shin Loong, Direc-tor of Commerce Telkomsel said.

Loong admitted that until now voiceand short message still dominate thebiggest portion of Telkomsel’s revenue.Meanwhile data services only donatea small income for the operator that hasa vision to become The Best MobileLifestyle Provider. Telkomsel is notstanding alone with this problem,Indosat, Excelcomindo, and othersGSM operators also fighting to createmore income from data services. Theyare working hard on creating interest-ing products for customers. But stillthere are lots to be learned before cus-tomers in Indonesia accustomed to usemobile data services as their main tele-communication tool. (iah)

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JAKARTA - Renowned Indone-sian poet and playwright WSRendra, died of a heart ailment onThursday. Thousands of mournersattended his funeral on Friday.

Since Friday morning, mournerscame to pay their last respects to thedeceased who laid to temporary restat his home in Depok, West Java,including fellow artists and publicdignitaries.

President Susilo BambangYudhoyono expressed his deep con-dolences on the passing of the greatIndonesian poet.

Minister/State Secretary HattaRadjasa said at the presidential pal-ace on Friday President Yudhoyonopersonally conveyed his condo-lences to WS Rendra’s family.

“The President expressed deepcondolences over the death of thegreat culturalist. He expressed hispersonal sympathy,” Hatta said.

Citing Rendra’s role as a coura-

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geous critic of the past authoritarianregime, the president said Rendrawas an extraordinary figure of histime, Hatta said.

Hatta said the government wasstill considering proposals to giveRendra the title of “national hero.”

“It is my understanding he hasalready received the highest awardin the field of arts from the state,” hesaid.

Born in Solo, Central Java, in1935 Willobrordus Surendra BrotoRendra passed away at MitraKeluarga Hospital in Depok, WestJava, at around 21.30pm.

Rendra’s daughter Clara Shintasaid her father was first treated in ahospital in Cinere for a week as ofJune 25, 2009 before being movedto Harapan Kita Hospital and thenMitra Keluarga Hospital in KelapaGading, North Jakarta. He was al-lowed to leave the hospital on Au-gust 4 but on August 7 he had a re-lapse and died at Mitra Hospital inDepok at around 21.30pm.

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JAKARTA - Police on Sunday tightened security at the private resi-dence of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at Puri Cikeas in Bogor.

suspects who threatened to detonategrenades when they were to be ar-rested. The police also seized a ready-made bomb in a Daihatsu Xenia vanon Jalan Krangan, Bekasi.

National Police Chief GeneralBambang Hendarso Danuri said whenvisiting the site of the raids that thebomb in the car was prepared for nextterror actions.

“A car with a bomb in it was madeready for an action in the next twoweeks’ time. The target had also beenset,” he said.

Following the bombings at JWMarriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels lastJuly 17, the police’s Special Detach-ment 88 anti-terror unit had worked touncover the perpetrators of the bomb-ings and their network.

For three weeks the police hadchased the suspects in Temanggung,in Central Java, Bekasi in West Javaand Solo in Central Java.

He said the terrorist suspect whohad been seized following the raid inBekasi was Amir Abdillah, the onewho booked Room 1808 at the JWMarriott Hotel.

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As battered banks and stocks rallyagain, news that US house prices are fi-nally rising after nearly three years of trau-matic decline offers the greatest hope tohard-pressed homeowners from Californiato Krakow.

The sub-prime home loan crisis inAmerica was the pressure-point that ex-posed underlying global financial chaos —and many economists say property pricesthere are the linchpin for confidence inbroader economic recovery.

US home sales have been rising andthe latest Standard & Poor’s/Case Shillerindex of home prices in 20 major US citiesshowed a 0.5 percent increase betweenApril and May — the first monthly risesince 2006.

“This is the first time we have seenbroad increases in home prices in 34months. This could be an indication thathome price declines are finally stabilizing,”said Standard & Poor’s analyst DavidBlitzer.

Data from the National Association ofRealtors also showed the median price ofexisting US home sales was 181,600 dol-lars (127,200 euros) in June — 15 percentlower than a year ago, but up from 174,700in May.

Celia Chen, an analyst at credit ratingagency Moody’s, said there were “tanta-lizing signs that the descent in house pricesis at least moderating,” but warned thathouse prices will not reach their 2006 highsuntil 2020.

Analysts remain skeptical on thelonger-term outlook for property prices asstable economic growth remains vulnerableto rising unemployment and government

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strategies for a clean exit from recessionafter unprecedented fiscal stimulus.

But that is doing little to dampen cau-tious optimism on property markets.

Official data in China is showing houseprices in 70 cities were up 0.8 percent inJune from May, rising for the fourth straightmonth, while real estate investment nation-wide rose 9.9 percent in the first half of theyear.

In Britain, house prices rose by 1.1 per-cent in July to just under 160,000 pounds(187,600 euros, 267,700 dollars) from June,but were down 12.1 percent over 12 months,a survey from home-loans provider Halifaxshowed this week.

In neighboring Ireland, however, priceshave fallen by up to 40 percent from theirpeak in 2006 and are still going down —with the government now working to pro-vide 90 billion euros in guarantees to theloan market.

Likewise, Spain’s second-biggest bankBBVA has forecast that house prices aftera decade-long, tourism-fuelled propertyboom will still fall by nearly 30 percent be-tween 2008 and 2011 before they start torecover.

In the Gulf emirate of Dubai, houseprices have almost halved over the past year.The sector there is struggling with a short-age of liquidity and job security for expa-triates who represent over 80 percent of thepopulation.

The decline in Dubai has had widerimplications, with US bank Morgan Stanleysaying world steel production will remainbelow 75 percent capacity as it awaits a re-vival in the construction sector in the MiddleEast.

Agence France-PresseWASHINGTON - Even as the US economy

seems to be emerging from recession, the Fed-eral Reserve is likely to signal it will maintainextraordinary efforts to spur growth until a re-covery takes root, analysts say.

The Federal Open Market Committee meet-ing Tuesday and Wednesday is widely expectedto keep on hold the ultra low federal funds ratesin a range of zero to 0.25 percent to stimulatelending and prop up economic activity.

The Fed led by Chairman Ben Bernankecould make some changes however in its spe-cial efforts to pump over one trillion dollars ofliquidity into the financial system — which somecall “quantitative easing” — that may no longerbe needed, say some economists.

“We expect the Fed to sound more confi-dent about the outlook by noting that theeconomy appears set to grow in the second halfof the year,” said Dean Maki, economist atBarclays Capital, who argues that the latest re-ports support the view “that the US recessionended in June.”

“In light of this, we do not expect it to ex-pand its 300 billion-dollar Treasury (bond) buy-ing program, which is set to be completed inmid-September.”

Other analysts note that the Fed has a deli-cate task of keeping inflation expectations incheck while instilling confidence in the recov-ery without creating any new bubbles.

“They probably don’t want to be too pessi-mistic,” said Cary Leahey, senior economist atDecision Economics. “But they want to temperthe enthusiasm of the market” about economicrecovery.

ReutersWASHINGTON - President Barack

Obama said on Friday the latest U.S. un-employment figures showed the worst maybe over in the economic crisis but acknowl-edged there was more work to be done toput the economy back on track.

“This morning we receive additionalsigns that the worst may be behind us,”Obama said in an appearance in the WhiteHouse Rose Garden after a government re-port that the U.S. jobless rate in July fellfor the first time in 15 months.

Obama sought to cast in the best pos-sible light the latest economic data despiteeconomists view that economy has a longway to go to recover from one of the worstrecessions since the Great Depression ofthe 1930s.

Obama’s speech came at the end of a

Obama: Worst may beover in economic crisis

Fed to stay supportive evenwith economy healing

The latest economic figures show aneconomy that is still falling but narrowing itsdecline. Gross domestic product fell at a 1.0 per-cent pace in the second quarter, after a 6.4 per-cent plunge in the January-March period.

Even unemployment, the weak link in theeconomy, showed signs of improving.

The unemployment rate fell one-tenth of apoint to 9.4 percent in July as job losses narrowedto 247,000 from 443,000 in June.

“The payrolls report hints that the worst ofthe labor market crunch is over,” said KrishenRangasamy at CIBC World Markets.

But, while the US economy will see somegrowth in the second half of the year, growthwill be too mild to put a significant dent in theunemployment rate, which should continue tocreep higher.”

Few economists expect the Fed to make anychange to interest rates until early 2010, or ifemployment starts to grow. But the central bankis also likely to take pains to show it has an “exitstrategy” in place when needed.

Eugenio Aleman, senior economist at WellsFargo, said the Fed may have to be ready to hikerates once the economy shows it is recoveringon its own without artificial support of the cen-tral bank and various stimulus programs.

Joel Naroff of Naroff Economic Advisorssaid the Fed will seek to send a message “thatthey are seeing more and more places where theeconomy is beginning to stabilize or move for-ward.” But Naroff added: “They are not goingto declare the recession is over.”

He said there remains considerable fear thateven a small hike in rates could undermine anascent recovery.

week in which a Quinnipiac University pollshowed his job approval rating had droppedto 50 percent as Americans express doubtabout his handling of the U.S. economy andhealthcare.

“I’m convinced that we can see a lightat the end of the tunnel,” Obama declared,saying his policies had helped unfreezecredit and a rising market was restoringvalue to battered 401K savings plans.

“We’ve pulled the economy back fromthe brink,” he said.

But he added, “We have a lot further togo. We will not have a true recovery whilewe are still losing jobs.”

Employers shed 247,000 jobs in July,the Labor Department said on Friday, theleast in any one month since last August,taking the unemployment rate to 9.4 per-cent, down from 9.5 percent in June.

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People walk past the World Trade Center construction site, Friday, Aug. 7, 2009 in NewYork.President Barack Obama said on Friday the latest U.S. unemployment figures showedthe worst may be over in the economic crisis but acknowledged there was more work to bedone to put the economy back on track.

Police called on people to remainvigilant and stressed their counter-terrorist operations were ongoing, asthe military stepped up security forthe president.

“We have optimised and in-creased security for him and his fam-ily,” military spokesman SagomTamboen said.

“Based on the police informationthat there is a cell group that wantedto attack RI-1 (Yudhoyono), then weact according to the situation.”

National police spokesmanNanan Soekarna said it could taketwo weeks to confirm whetherNoordin was killed as heavily armedpolice riddled the squat farmhousewith bullets and explosions on Sat-urday morning.

“The whole process of DNA test-ing will take two weeks. It’s a stan-dard procedure,” he said.

The 25-year-old, his head par-tially shaven and large scars visibleon his scalp, greeted Krishna in theapartment where he had been recu-perating but was not well enoughto speak publicly.

His cousin Lakshmi Bongnanisaid Theerthala was progressingwell, although he had vision andmemory problems due to a braininjury suffered in the attack.

“It’s going to take a year or more(to recuperate),” Bongnani told re-porters. He said Krishna hadpledged that the Indian governmentwould provide whatever supportwas necessary. The foreign minis-ter, whose stated purpose in visit-ing Australia was to “get a clearersense of what is happening on theground”, declined to meet with adelegation of Indian students afterhis audience with Theerthala.

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“The test is being conducted at theKramat Jati police hospital,” headded, referring to a hospital inJakarta where the body of the mili-tant found in the farmhouse wastaken after the siege.

National police chief BambangHendarso Danuri said late Saturdaythat the identification process wouldtake less than a week.

Noordin, 40, a Malaysian Islam-ist, has been blamed for multiple ter-ror attacks against “iconic” Westerntargets in Indonesia which havekilled around 50 people and injuredhundreds since 2003.

The latest were believed to havebeen the July 17 twin suicide bomb-ings on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in the capital, whichkilled seven people including sixforeigners, plus the two bombers.

A member of the JemaahIslamiyah regional terror group re-sponsible for the 2002 Bali attackswhich killed more than 200 people,he split to form his own even more

violent network to “defend Islam” fromperceived injustice.

The self-proclaimed leader of “Al-Qaeda in the Malay Archipelago” wasone of Asia’s most wanted men and hada 100,000-dollar bounty on his headfrom the Indonesian government, whosaw him as public enemy number one.

The police raid on his suspectedhideout overshadowed other operationsincluding the arrest of five of Noordin’salleged accomplices and the uncover-ing of a major bomb factory in Bekasi,outside Jakarta.

Two would-be suicide bomberswere shot dead by police early Satur-day at their rented house in Bekasi asthey tried to resist arrest, police said.

Police chief Danuri said they hadrigged a small truck as a bomb and wereplanning to launch a suicide attackagainst Yudhoyono’s main residence,which is a 12-minute drive away.

The attack had been planned to takeplace around Indonesia’s IndependenceDay on August 17, and had been or-dered by Noordin during a meeting on

April 30 as revenge for the execu-tion of the Bali bombers late lastyear, Danuri said.

Police have come close to arrest-ing Noordin several times in the pastand have captured or killed some ofhis closest associates during a six-year manhunt.

Analysts said his death would bea blow to his network, estimated tonumber as few as 30 hardcore cad-res, but would not end the terrorthreat in the world’s most populousMuslim-majority country.

“Every time there was an attack,there were new accomplices,” Insti-tute for International Peacebuildingresearcher Taufik Andrie said.

“There are several people whohave the potential to replaceNoordin.”

He said he doubted the reportsthat Noordin had been killed.

“The dead guy doesn’t seem tobe Noordin. He has impeccable in-stincts for evading police raids,” hesaid.

After also leaving tens of thou-sands trapped in Taiwan, the pow-erful storm landed in China’s Fujianprovince at 4:20 pm (0820 GMT),the provincial meteorological bu-reau said.

Morakot pounded Taiwan overthe weekend with powerful windsand torrential rain, forcing the gov-ernment to deploy the military torescue stranded residents, officialssaid.

Television footage showed awoman in tears reporting that herdaughter and husband had plungedinto a river when a flash flood sweptaway their car in Taiwan’s centralcounty of Nantou.

“My daughter called me twicesaying: ‘We’re being washed away!Hurry, hurry!’ Then I lost them,”the sobbing woman told reporters.

Officials said three people wereconfirmed dead and at least another31 were missing as Morakotdumped a record 2.5 metres (100inches) of rain on the southern Tai-wanese county of Pingtung.

At least 10,000 people weretrapped in three coastal townships,Pingtung deputy magistrate ChungChia-pin said, and officials said tensof thousands of other people werealso trapped in the counties ofTainan and Chiayi.

“This is the worst flooding inChiayi in 50 years,” county magis-trate Chen Ming-wen told reporters,issuing a plea for more rubber din-

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ghies and water pumps.A typhoon in August 1959 killed

667 people and left some 1,000missing in Taiwan.

Across the Taiwan Strait, morethan 505,000 people had beenevacuated from the Fujian coastand another 490,000 were relocatedin the neighbouring province ofZhejiang, the Xinhua news agencyreported.

Zhejiang issued a red alert ear-lier Sunday as it registered a maxi-mum wind speed of nearly 180kilometres (113 miles) an houraround the coastal city of Taizhou,Xinhua said.

Gale-force winds were expectedto persist for at least three days andwaves were forecast to reach as highas seven meters, it said.

More than 35,000 ships werecalled in to port as the storm ap-proached, Xinhua quoted Zhejiangflood-control headquarters as saying.

A cargo ship was stranded in therough seas and rescuers were try-ing to rescue its eight sailors, theagency reported.

Xinhua said the ship, Daqing254, lost control and was blownonto a reef area on Qingshan Islandnear Fujian’s Ningde City early Sun-day as it tried to shelter from thewind.

Among the missing in Taiwanwere 14 workers who disappearedwhen their makeshift shelter besidea river in southern Kaohsiung county

was washed away by rising flood-waters early Sunday.

Armoured vehicles and marinelanding craft, as well as rubber din-ghies, were mobilised in a rescueoperation involving at least 1,200troops, Taiwan’s defence ministrysaid.

The troops were distributing foodand drinking water to residents af-fected by the flooding, which in

some places had gone as high as the firststorey of buildings.

Television footage showed a six-storey hotel in Taipung, southeasternTaiwan, collapsing in the floods. Staffand guests had already been evacuated,the reports said.

The typhoon has caused at least 832million Taiwan dollars (26 million US)in agricultural damage and temporarilycut electricity to more than one million

households, according to officials.Morakot also left flooding and

landslides in its wake after grazingthe Philippines on its way to Tai-wan.

The Manila government’s civildefence office said the storm had lefta total of 21 people dead includingtwo French tourists and a Belgian,with seven other people still miss-ing.

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A collapsed hotel building is seen in heavily flooded river after Typhoon Morakot hit Taitungcounty, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, in Taitung County, eastern Taiwan. The six-story hotel collapsedand plunged into a river Sunday morning after floodwaters eroded its base, but all 300 people inthe hotel were evacuated and uninjured, officials said.

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The movie — about the strugglesof insect-like extra-terrestrial refugeesas they try to settle on Earth amongsthostile humans — has garnered glow-ing reviews ahead of its North Ameri-can release on August 14.

Produced by Oscar-winning“Lord of the Rings” director PeterJackson, Blomkamp’s film arosefrom the ashes of plans to adaptsmash hit video-game “Halo” forthe big screen.

Yet while the film’s setting is a fu-turistic parallel universe, the story isunmistakably rooted in South Africa’srecent bloody history of apartheid andanti-immigrant social unrest.

Vancouver-based Blomkamp, 29,acknowledges said that despite thesymbolism of “District 9,” he hadnot set out to make a “political” film.

“I was aware that I didn’t wantto make a film that sounded overlypolitical and that the audience wouldfind really draining,” Blomkamptold reporters at a press event in LosAngeles.

“But I knew that I wanted theessence of South Africa to be cap-tured and the essence of segregationand pure racism kind of hit it headon, because that was the environ-ment where I grew up in.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON – Hundreds of Beatles fans swarmed Abbey Road on Sat-urday, singing songs and snarling traffic to mark 40 years since John,Paul, George and Ringo strode across the leafy north London street andinto the history books on iconic pop photos.

The famous photo graced the cover of the Fab Four’s “Abbey Road,”the last album recorded together, and shows the bandmates walking pur-posefully across the zebra-striped asphalt.

It remains one of music’s best-known album covers, endlessly imi-tated and parodied. Although the shoot itself only took a few minutes, socarefully studied was the cover for signs and symbolism that some die-hard fans came to the conclusion that Paul McCartney — who appearsbarefoot and out of step with the rest — had secretly died.

McCartney himself made fun of the bizarre conspiracy in the title ofhis 1993 concert album, “Paul is Live.”

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TAIPEI – Taiwan’s pop singerJay Chou will star alongside NicolasCage and Cameron Diaz in themovie remake of popular US tele-vision series “The Green Hornet,”reports here said Saturday.

Chou, 30, has been cast as thesuperhero’s sidekick Kato, a roleplayed by the late Chinese-Ameri-can martial arts icon Bruce Leeabout 40 years ago, said the UnitedDaily News.

“I am very happy to act in an in-ternational film. I will do my best,”the paper quoted Chou as saying ina statement issued by his companyJVR Music.

Chou won the role after a video-link audition a month ago with the

movie’s director Michel Gondry and writer Seth Rogen, who will playthe lead role Britt Reid, or The Green Hornet, the report said.

Chou will start shooting for the film, scheduled to be released on July9 2010, after wrapping up his directorial work for a television series andtwo concerts in China, it said.

The Apple Daily said Chou replaced Hong Kong star Stephen Chow,who was originally set to direct and act in the film, but had pulled outdue to differences with Columbia Pictures.

Chou, also famous in China, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia for hispop music, has expanded into filmmaking in recent years, starring in anumber of box-office hits including “Initial D,” “The Curse of the GoldenFlower” and “Secret.”

AFP/Getty Images/File/Michael Buckner

Producer Peter Jackson, actor Sharlto Copley and writer/director Neill Blomkamp take part in a paneldiscussion on the movie “District 9” at Comic-Con 2009 in July in San Diego, California. Hollywood isbuzzing with excitement about South African director Blomkamp’s debut film, a science-fiction thrillerabout aliens segregated in a Johannesburg township.

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LOS ANGELES – Hollywood is buzzing with excitement about SouthAfrican director Neill Blomkamp’s debut film “District 9,” a science-fiction thriller about aliens segregated in a Johannesburg township.

“So there was a fine balance be-tween these many analogies of apart-heid and these many analogies of thewhite government and oppression.”

Early reviews of “District 9” sug-gest Blomkamp has pulled off thatbalancing act — Internet film reviewaggregator Rottentomatoes.com hasgiven the movie a perfect 100 per-cent rating.

The Hollywood Reporter hailedthe movie as a “genuinely originalscience fiction film that grabs youimmediately, not letting go until thefinal shot.”

The film’s central character,Wikus van der Merwe, played bySouth African Sharlto Copley, is anemployee of a private security firmattempting to unravel the mysteriesof the aliens’ weapons systems,which can only be unlocked withalien DNA.

When Wikus is infected by analien virus that begins to change hishuman DNA, the hunter becomes thehunted and he is forced to seek ref-uge among the extra-terrestrials intheir Soweto-like ghetto, District 9.

Blomkamp said Johannesburgwas the logical setting for the film,doubting it could have been madeanywhere else.

“I think it would be incrediblydifficult to replicate what we havein Johannesburg,” he said. “There isso much visual detail here, the dirtor barbed wire or weeds, it’s incred-ibly rich visually. For the film towork, I think you need this level ofreality and this level of pollution andrealness.”

New Zealand film-maker Jacksonmeanwhile said that Blomkamp’sSouth African identity had allowedhim to “bring a unique perspective”to the story.

Jackson and Blomkamp firstworked together during planning fora possible film version ofMicrosoft’s XBox console hit“Halo.”

Blomkamp had impressed Jack-son with a short 2005 film “Alive inJoburg,” which first presented theconcept on which District 9 is based.

“I flew down to New Zealand tomeet Pete and he signed off on mefor ‘Halo’; we started to make ‘Halo’and then ‘Halo’ collapsed,”Blomkamp recalled.

“I was getting ready to move backto Vancouver and then he and FranWalsh said ‘Why don’t you just stayhere and we can try another film?Let’s use the momentum you createdin Halo and just keep it going andstart something new.’ “That soundedlike a good idea to me. So they kindof allowed this new film to happenand let me make it, which was awe-some for me.”

Taiwan’s Jay Chou goesto Hollywood: report

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Jay Chou

Beatles fans swarm AbbeyRoad on album anniversary

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A tribute band dressed as members of British band, the Beatles,walk across the famous pedestrian crossing on Abbey Road, in Lon-don, in a recreation of the Beatles’ Abbey Road album cover as hun-dreds of people gathered to mark the 40th anniversary of the album,Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009.

“Three victims have been recov-ered,” said Debbie Hersman, headof the National TransportationSafety Board, at a late Saturdaypress conference, adding that searchoperations had been suspended forthe night.

Media reports said the bodies oftwo adults and one child had beenpulled from the Hudson, hours af-ter the helicopter carrying five tour-ists and a pilot collided with an air-plane in full view of horrified resi-dents.

Hersman said she could not con-firm the identities of the three bod-ies, or which aircraft they had beenaboard.

Earlier in the day, New YorkMayor Michael Bloomberg told apress conference that what hadstarted as a rescue operation was

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ZANZIBAR TOWN - Police onthe Tanzanian island of Zanzibarsaid they had arrested a suspect inthe murder of a 27-year-old Irishtourist, whose body was found on abeach here Saturday.

The body of the victim, who had

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NUKU’ALOFA - The feareddeath toll from a ferry disaster inTonga has risen to 95, police saidSunday as devastated Tonganspacked churches across the tinyPacific island kingdom in a day ofmourning.

Police commander Chris Kelleysaid it was now believed there were149 people on board the PrincessAshika, which went down just be-fore midnight on Wednesday.

Two bodies and 54 survivorshave been found, and 93 people areunaccounted for.

Police said the final numbercould be higher and they were con-tinuing to analyse information aboutunrecorded people on board the ves-sel, whose official manifest showedonly 79 passengers and crew.

“I think there is a complete

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HONG KONG - A Hong Kongbusinessman living in Taiwan wasbehind a plot to shoot leadingdemocrats Jimmy Lai and MartinLee, a report said Sunday.

The unidentified businessmanput up one million US dollars toChinese crime bosses to attack Lai,a media mogul, and Lee, a leadingpolitician, the Sunday MorningPost reported citing police evidencefrom a trial in Shenzhen.

Two of the suspects in the casepinpointed the businessman as themastermind behind the plot whichwas foiled last summer, the En-glish-language paper said.

Tung Nga-man, who reportshave said is a senior leader in theTriad crime group, told police thathe had flown to Taiwan to meet thebusinessman.

“(The businessman) said Laiwas anti-government and anti-state,and so on, and that it should be OK

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Authorities retrieve a body from the Hudson River after a mid-air collision, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009, in NewYork. A sightseeing helicopter carrying five Italian tourists collided with a small plane above the HudsonRiver on Saturday, sending debris into the water and forcing people on New Jersey’s waterfront to scam-per for cover. Authorities believe all nine people aboard the two aircraft were killed.

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NEW YORK - Nine people were believed dead Sunday after a heli-copter carrying Italian tourists crashed mid-air with a light airplaneover New York’s Hudson River.

Tanzania police arrest suspectover Irishman’s death

arrived in Zanzibar earlier this week,was found about 60 kilometres (37miles) north of the capital, the po-lice chief Mselem Masoud Mtuliatold AFP.

An initial examination of thebody had revealed bruises to theneck, said Mtulia, the senior officerfor the north of the island.

“We are going with investigationand also call upon people to helppolice by providing any informationwhich will help us arrest the mur-derers,” he added.

The Zanzibar archipelago is asemi-autonomous part of Tanzaniapopular with tourists for its beachesand snorkelling.

being converted into a recovery op-eration, saying the incident was “notsurvivable.”

“This is not going to have a happyending,” he said.

Hersman said divers had locatedthe wreckage of the helicopter andwere using sonar equipment tosearch for the plane before they shutdown operations overnight.

“Once that wreckage is pulled up,they will try to do it tomorrow, de-pending on the current and the cir-cumstances and the conditions... itwill be pulled up and taken to a se-cure location for further examina-tion,” she said.

The search for the wreckage wasmade more difficult by the low vis-ibility of only about one meter (threefeet) at the bottom of the river, au-thorities pointed out.

The Eurocopter AS350 was car-rying five Italian tourists and a pi-lot. Two passengers, including onechild, plus a pilot were aboard thesingle-propeller Piper PA32 plane.

The collision took place just af-ter noon (1600 GMT) on a hot sum-mer day when river-front streetswere crowded with locals and tour-ists.

Witnesses described the two air-craft plummeting into the river be-tween Manhattan and New Jersey.

“It hit the water like a stone,” awoman told NY1. “I saw a piece ofmetal, I saw a helicopter, the heli-copter went down, and that was it. Iheard no noise, and no smoke orfire.”

Some witnesses said the accidenthad been almost noiseless, but oth-ers reported hearing either the col-lision or impact against the river.

“We heard a really loud crashwhich sounded like lightning orthunder,” another woman said.“They were both falling from thesky.”

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Concerned citizens gather on the dock as survivors arrives in Pangaion Tonga’s Lifuka Island, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009, after a ferry carry-ing 117 passengers and crew sank around midnight Wednesday,northeast of the Tongan capital, Nuku’alofa.

Hong Kong businessmanbehind plot to shoot democrats

to spend some money to teach hima lesson,” Tung told police, accord-ing to the Post.

Another defendant at the trial inShenzhen, over the Chinese borderfrom Hong Kong, was told the pay-ment would be one million dollarsfor murdering Lai and 700,000 dol-lars for injuring him, the report said.

The attack was planned for July1, when both men were taking partin Hong Kong’s annual pro-democ-racy march, the paper said.

A Hong Kong court last monthjailed a mainland Chinese gunmanto 16 years for possessing a fire-arm with the intention of causingharm.

A second man was handed athree-year jail term after admittingpossessing firearms in connectionwith the plot.

The plot was foiled after a po-lice officer stopped the gunman bychance at a Hong Kong policecheckpoint in August last year, thecourt heard.

Feared toll from Tonganferry tragedy rises to 95

manifest that is held by a crewmember on the boat when it sailed,but of course that would have beenlost in the sinking,” Kelley said.

“What we are faced is that peopleare telling us is they put people onthe boat and they weren’t on themanifest that was supplied here.”

Navy divers from Australia andNew Zealand were to continue Sun-day trying to locate the ferry, whichwas en route from Tonga’s capitalNuku’alofa to outlying Ha’afevawhen it sank moments after issu-ing a mayday call.

Survivors said it went downquickly when cargo appeared toshift and people below decks hadno time to escape.

The ferry was initially located inabout 35 metres (115 feet) of waterbut may have slipped further on theuneven seabed to a depth of about100 metres.

International4 Monday, August 10, 2009 International Monday, August 10, 2009 13Life StyleNews

Subjects who drank the juice eas-ily outperformed a control group intests and were able to exercise at thesame intensity for up to 16 percentlonger.

The findings, published in theUS-based Journal of Applied Physi-ology, will be of keen interest to en-durance athletes but may also provehelpful to people with cardiovascu-lar, respiratory or metabolic diseasesas well as the elderly, the research-ers said.

There are essentially two ways toenhance physical performance in re-lation to oxygen intake.

One is to raise the “VO2-max”level, which is an individual’s high-est possible rate of oxygen consump-

Associated Press Writer

GENEVA – When launched togreat fanfare nearly a year ago, somefeared the Large Hadron Colliderwould create a black hole that wouldsuck in the world. It turns out theHadron may be the black hole.

The world’s largest scientificmachine has cost $10 billion, hasworked only nine days and has yetto smash an atom. The uniqueequipment in a 17-mile (27-kilo-meter) circular tunnel with cathe-dral-sized detectors deep beneaththe Swiss-French border has beenassembled by specialists in manycountries, with 8,970 physicistseagerly awaiting the startup.

But despite the expense, thou-sands of physicists around the world,many of whom hope to conduct ex-periments here, insist that it will workand that it is crucial to mankind’sunderstanding of the universe.

The European Organization forNuclear Research, known as CERN,said Friday it would restart thecollider in November at half powerunder pressure from scientists eagerto conduct experiments to unlocksecrets of the universe.

But spokesman James Gillies toldThe Associated Press they wouldhave to shut down yet again next yearto finish repairs so that the LargeHadron Collider can operate at fullenergy of 7 trillion electron volts —seven times higher than any othermachine in the world.

CERN has been working sincelate last year to repair the damagecaused by a faulty electrical joint.The breakdown occurred nine daysafter the spectacular start up of the$10 billion machine last Sept. 10when beams of subatomic particleswere sent around the accelerator inopposite directions.

Fifty-three massive electricalmagnets had to be cleaned and re-paired after the failure. Tons of su-percold liquid helium spilled out ofthe system, and a sooty residue hadto be cleared from the tubes that aremeant to be pristine, holding avacuum in which subatomic particlescan whiz around the tunnel at nearthe speed of light at temperatures

AP Photo/Fabrice Coffrini, Pool, FileIn this file photo dated Sept. 10, 2008, European Center for NuclearResearch (CERN) scientists control computer screens showingtraces on Atlas experiment of the first protons injected in the LargeHadron Collider (LHC) during its switch on operation in CERN’s con-trol room, near Geneva, Switzerland.

Particle collider: Blackhole or crucial machine?

colder than outer space.Michio Kaku, a physics professor

at City University of New York whois an outspoken critic of waste in bigscience projects, defends the CERNcollider as a crucial investment.

“The Europeans and the Ameri-cans are not throwing $10 billiondown this gigantic tube for nothing,”Kaku said. “We’re exploring the veryforefront of physics and cosmologywith the Large Hadron Collider be-cause we want to have a window oncreation, we want to recreate a tinypiece of Genesis to unlock some ofthe greatest secrets of the universe.”

He said the biggest cause of the“bad accident” last year was “prob-ably due to human error caused byrushing the project.”

“But I view it as a temporaryblack eye. We’ll get it up and run-ning,” Kaku said.

CERN expects repairs and ad-ditional safety systems to costabout 40 million Swiss francs ($37million) over the course of severalyears, covered by the 20-nationorganization’s budget.

The collider emerged as the world’slargest after the U.S. canceled the Su-perconducting Super Collider beingbuilt in Texas in 1993. Congress pulledthe plug after costs soared, and ques-tions were raised about the value ofthe science it could produce.

Gillies says all 20 of CERN’smember nations have remained sup-portive and that four other countries— Cyprus, Israel, Serbia and Tur-key — have asked to join. A fifthcountry — Slovenia — has ex-pressed interest.

Japan, India, Russia and the U.S.are observer countries that havemade sizable contributions to theCERN project.

CERN is now aiming to restart themachine in November with beams ofsubatomic particles initially runningat 3.5 trillion electron volts, or TeV.That’s only half the level the machinewas designed for, but it’s still 3 1/2times higher than the second mostpowerful accelerator, the Tevatron atFermilab outside Chicago. During lastyear’s brief startup phase, the CERNcollider only operated at half theFermilab level.

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PARIS – A generous glass of beetroot juice boosts endurance byreducing the amount of oxygen needed during physical exercise, ac-cording to a study released Friday.

tion during all-out exercise.The VO2-max ceiling varies from

person to person. It is partly geneticbut it can be increased through train-ing or the use of EPO, the oxygen-boosting drug that has plagued theTour de France cycling competitionas well as other professional sports.

“But there is an alternative,” ex-plained Andy Jones, a professor atthe University of Exeter in Britainand lead author of the study.

“If you can reduce the energycost” — the amount of oxygen used— “that can be beneficial too,” hetold AFP by phone. That’s wherebeetroots come in.

In experiments, Jones and col-leagues asked two groups of people

to exercise at a fixed, high-intensitywork rate for as long as they possi-bly could.

The group that drank a red-coloured placebo held out on aver-age for nine or ten minutes. Thosewho drank beetroot, however, went11 or 12 minutes.

“They were exercising at exactlythe same work rate. The improve-ment in performance was not be-cause the VO2-max had changed butsimply because the efficiency hadbeen enhanced,” Jones said.

“We were amazed by the effectson oxygen uptake because these ef-fects cannot be achieved by anyother known means.”

Whether the juice will also workover several hours of less intenseexercise — equivalent to long-dis-tance running or cycling — remainsto be shown but seems likely, Jonesadded.

The researchers are not sure ex-actly how the ruby-red elixir worksbut they do have an educated guess.

Like lettuce and spinach, beetrootis rich in nitrate, which the bodyconverts into nitrite. This, in turn, isa chemical trigger for another com-pound, nitric oxide.

Nitric oxide can dilate blood ves-sels and thus provide more oxygento muscles. “But we think the key isthat it seems to do a lot of weird andwonderful things within the musclecells’ mitochondria, where oxidatedenergy is produced,” Jones said.

Earlier laboratory studies confirmthe link between nitric oxide andincreased energy output but furtherexperiments are needed to seewhether this truly is the magic in-gredient.

Another study, published last yearin the US journal Hypertension,found that beetroot juice reducesblood pressure too.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - The outage thatknocked Twitter offline for hours wastraced to an attack on a lone blogger inthe former Soviet republic of Georgia— but the collateral damage that leftmillions around the world tweetlessshowed just how much havoc an iso-lated cyberdispute can cause.

“It told us how quickly manypeople really took Twitter into theirhearts,” Robert Thompson, directorof the Center for the Study of Popu-lar Television at Syracuse Univer-sity, said Friday.

Tens of millions of people havecome to rely on social media to ex-press their innermost thoughts andto keep up with world news and ce-lebrity gossip.

Twitter “is one of those littleamusements that infiltrated the massbehavior in some significant ways, so

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Cyclists race past the Notre Dame Cathedral as part of the Tour deFrance in July 2009 in Paris. A glass of beetroot juice boosts endur-ance by reducing the amount of oxygen needed during physical exer-cise, according to a new study.

Attacks on lone blogger reverberate across Webthat when it went away, a lot of peoplereally noticed it and missed it.”

The attacks Thursday also sloweddown Facebook and caused prob-lems for the online diary siteLiveJournal. But Twitter, the 140-character-or-less messaging siteused by celebrities, businesses andeven Iranian protesters, suffered atotal outage that lasted several hours.

Those attacks continued Fridayfrom thousands of computers pum-meling its servers, said KazuhiroGomi, chief technology officer forNTT America Enterprise Hosting Ser-vices, which hosts Twitter’s service.

Twitter crashed because of a de-nial-of-service attack, in whichhackers command scores of comput-ers toward a single site at the sametime to prevent legitimate trafficfrom getting through. The attack wastargeted at a blogger who goes by“Cyxymu” — Cyrillic spelling of

Sukhumi, a city in the breakawayterritory of Abkhazia in Georgia —on several Web sites, including Twit-ter, Facebook and LiveJournal.

But they could have just as welltargeted Twitter itself. That’s be-cause the effects were the samewhether the excess traffic went to the“twitter.com” home page or to thepage for Cyxymu at “twitter.com/cyxymu.” Same with Facebook andLiveJournal.

“A denial of service attack likethis one is a very blunt instrument,”said Ray Dickenson, chief technol-ogy officer at Authentium, a com-puter security firm. It’s as if a viewerwho didn’t like one show on a tele-vision channel decided to “knockout the whole station.”

Or like fishing with dynamite:You’ll catch something, but the blastwill kill dolphins, sharks and otherorganisms, too.

The leaders, including oustedpresident Marc Ravalomanana andhis rival Andry Rajoelina, agreed toset up an interim government andhold elections by the end of nextyear in a deal signed in the earlyhours of Sunday.

The rivals had “agreed that thetransition will last no longer than 15months from the signature of theaccord,” said UN mediator TiebileDrame, after the overnight talks.

Legislative and presidential elec-tions will be held under interna-tional supervision during the periodwhich will see stable democraticinstitutions re-established inMadagsacar, he said.

The four leaders, includingformer presidents Didier Ratsirakaand Albert Zafy, regrouped for an-

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MADRID - The Basque separat-ist organisation ETA claimed Sun-day in a statement responsibility forseveral attacks, including those thatkilled two Civil Guard officers anda police inspector it called a “tor-turer”.

In the statement released to thepro-independence Basque dailyGara, a regular channel for ETAcommunications, the group claimedthe June 19 car bomb attack thatkilled 49-year-old police inspectorEduardo Puelles Garcia in theBasque town of Arrigorriaga.

The statement also claimed theJuly 30 car bomb attack outside a

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ALMATY - A Kazakh journal-ist was Saturday sentenced to threeyears in prison for divulging statesecrets in a ruling slammed bymedia rights groups who accusethe Central Asian state of stiflingpress freedom, Interfax reported.

Ramzan Essergenov, chief edi-tor of the newspaper Alma-AtaInfo, was sentenced by a court sit-ting in closed session over an ar-ticle in which he questionedwhether the ex-Soviet republicwas ruled by the president or thesecret service.

Three others — businessmanSultan Makhmadov and two of hisemployees — got terms rangingbetween two and eight years in jail,one of their lawyers MussataiBektassov said, according to the

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YANGON - Myanmar democ-racy leader Aung San Suu Kyifaces fresh uncertainty this weekover her internationally con-demned trial, with her US co-defendant’s illness threatening tofurther delay the verdict.

A prison court is scheduled tohand down judgment on NobelPeace laureate Suu Kyi and Ameri-can John Yettaw when it meets onTuesday for what was expected tobe the final episode in the nearlythree-month-long legal imbroglio.

But diplomats and officials saidit could be postponed once againbecause Yettaw — who sparkedthe case by swimming to herlakeside home in May — remainsin hospital after suffering repeatedepileptic seizures.

Myanmar officials speaking oncondition of anonymity saidYettaw’s health improved slightly onSaturday and that he was “eatingwell” after fasting for weeks, butsaid the trial could be delayed atleast another week.

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi facesnew trial uncertainty

Kazakh journalist jailed fordivulging ‘state secrets’

Russian news agency.Kazakhstan, ruled by President

Nursultan Nazarbayev for 20years, has drawn wide criticismfrom rights groups at home andabroad for trampling on democracyand human rights.

A controversial recent law al-lows the shutting down of awebsite for three months if it isdeemed to have intentionally pub-lished illegal information.

Media rights groups meanwhiledenounced the trial.

“Ramzan Essergenov has onlycarried out his duty as a citizen, hisprofessional duty,” said a joint let-ter by opposition newspapers andnon-governmental organisationsaddressed to the attorney general.

“Independent studies haveproven that these documents... arenot state secrets,” it added.

“If Yettaw’s health does not im-prove or deteriorates we are head-ing towards a postponement. We willknow more on Monday,” added aWestern diplomat, asking not to benamed.

“But if his condition improvesduring the weekend they(Myanmar’s ruling junta) have nointerest in delaying further the ver-dict,” the diplomat said.

Suu Kyi faces up to five years injail if convicted of violating herhouse arrest. She has already beenin detention for 14 of the last 20 yearsand is being held at Yangon’s Inseinprison, where the trial is taking place.

The case is proving to be a ma-jor headache for the junta, caughtbetween growing internationalpressure to free Suu Kyi and whatcritics say is its determination tokeep her locked up during electionsdue in 2010.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon last weekpressed the junta to free political pris-oners, including Suu Kyi, after con-vening a meeting of the “Group ofFriends of the Secretary-General onMyanmar”.

A visit to Myanmar in the nexttwo weeks by Democratic US Sena-tor Jim Webb — the first US law-maker to visit the country in morethan 10 years — could further com-plicate the timing of the verdict, dip-lomats said.

Suu Kyi’s lawyers have hailed therepeated delays as a sign that thejudges have “serious legal problems”— but analysts say the real decisionsare being made by reclusive juntaleader Than Shwe from the bunkercapital Naypyidaw.

Myanmar’s regime “has a win-dow from August 10 and 20 be-cause after that all the governmentscome back to normal and thenearly September you have the UNGeneral Assembly,” the westerndiplomat said.

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Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano (C) signs a memorandum of Agreement flanked byMadagascar ousted president Marc Ravalomanana (R) and transitional president Andry Rajoelina (L) onAugust 9, 2009 at the Joaquim Chissano International Conference Centre, Mozambique.

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MAPUTO - Leaders of Madagascar’s main political movementsmet Sunday to discuss the formation of a transitional government af-ter signing an agreement to lead the country to fresh polls and endmonths of crisis.

other session early Sunday dedi-cated to discussion on the make-upof the transition government.

Lead mediator Joaquim Chissanosaid no decision was expected Sunday.

“It may not be today. Today we’regoing to see how to proceed,” saidChissano, the former Mozambicanpresident. “The agenda for today isto see how we are going to accom-plish the work ahead.”

African Union envoy toMadgascar Ablasse Ouedraogo saidSunday’s meeting was “too early”in the negotiations to expect agree-ment on the line-up of the transi-tional administration. “It is a goodstarting point,” he said.

The transition government willinclude a president, vice president,prime minister and three deputy

prime ministers and 28 ministers.Ravalomanana said he would re-

turn home to Madagascar under theterms of the accord — which grantshim an amnesty — but would notpersonally take part in the govern-ment of transition.

“In the interests of the nation, andfollowing consultations, it seems rea-sonable to me to not participate per-sonally in the transition,” he told jour-nalists, adding that his party wouldtake part in the transition institutions.

Under the terms of the accordmembers of the transition govern-ment may not run in the elections,except for its president.

Ravalomanana said however thathe would wait to return to Madagas-car until “the situation isfavourable”.

Ravalomanana has been living inexile in South Africa since fleeingMadagascar in March following theriots which left 100 dead.Ravalomanana handed over powerto the army, which then transferredit to his rival Rajoelina.

ETA claims responsibility forkilling three Spanish police

police barracks on the Mediterra-nean island of Majorca that killedtwo members of the Civil Guardsparamilitary police, Diego Salva andCarlos Saenz de Tejada.

It said Puelles was “the chief ofpolice operations against numerousleftist independence activists andagainst pro-independence youths forthe past decade, and the coordina-tor of different operations againstETA.”

“Sometimes, as the most experi-enced and despicable torturer in thecommissariat ... he also pressuredindependence activists into collabo-rating by threats,” said the group.

Founded half a century ago, ETAis blamed for the deaths of 828

people in its violent campaign foran independent Basque homelandencompassing parts of northernSpain and southwest France.

The group also claimed in thestatement a car bomb attack on aCivil Guards barracks in the north-ern city of Burgos on July 29 thatinjured 40 people, and a bomb at-tack on the offices of the ruling So-cialist Party in the Basque town ofDurango on July 10 in which no onewas injured.

Despite claiming the attacks ETAsaid it “does not seek to impose anyproject, unlike successive Spanishleaders. It is ETA which has over thelong decades sought dialogue andpolitical solution.”

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A memorial ceremony is held in front of the Statue of Peace atNagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, southern Japan, on SundayAug. 9, 2009. Nagasaki marks the 64th anniversary of theworld’s second atomic bomb attack on Sunday.

Tomihisa Tanoue urged worldleaders from both declared nuclearpowers and others such as Iran, Is-rael and North Korea to visit the cityin southwestern Japan.

“I am sure anyone who visitshere would feel the sorrow of thevictims and be shaken by it,” themayor said in an address at an an-nual ceremony commemorating the1945 bombing.

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GUADALAJARA - US President BarackObama attends his first North Americanleaders summit in Mexico on Sunday withthe economic crisis and swine flu on anagenda overshadowed by Mexican drug vio-lence.

Hundreds of Mexican soldiers and po-lice deployed in the western city ofGuadalajara for the summit in whichObama, Mexican President Felipe Calderonand Canadian Prime Minister StephenHarper were due to touch on a wide rangeof topics affecting the region of almost 450million inhabitants.

Measures to help recovery in the threemajor economies that have been tied by theNorth American Free Trade Agreement(NAFTA) for 15 years were a top priority.

Like the United States, Mexico has sunkdeep into recession, with much of its indus-try tied to the worst-affected areas of theUS economy — cars and construction —and migrant workers north of the bordersending less money home.

In the two-day meeting, Canada andMexico — the first and third-largest UStrading partners — were expected to pres-sure Obama over a “Buy American” clausein the US economic stimulus plan.

Mexico also sought to resolve an immi-gration dispute with Canada over the recentimposition of visas for Mexicans, and a tradedispute involving Mexican trucks operatingin the United States, officials said here.

Mexico responded to the US cancella-tion of a program allowing some Mexican

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TOKYO - Nagasaki’s mayor, marking the 64th anniversary of hiscity’s atomic bombing by the United States, called Sunday on the lead-ers of nuclear-armed powers to visit the site and build a nuclear-freeworld.

A minute of silence was observedat 11:02 am (0202 GMT), when theUS bomb exploded above the city,killing roughly 74,000 people. Thebombing followed one a week beforein Hiroshima and hastened Japan’ssurrender in World War II.

Tanoue said an April speech by USPresident Barack Obama in Prague,where Obama pledged to build aworld with no nuclear weapons, “im-

pressed” the residents of Nagasaki.“The Japanese government must

support the Prague speech. As a na-tion that has come under nuclearattack, Japan must lead the inter-national community” in abolishingthe weapons, he said.

Similar appeals were madeThursday when Hiroshima markedthe anniversary of its bombing,which killed 140,000 people.

At the Nagasaki ceremony,Prime Minister Taro Aso reiteratedthe Japanese government’s anti-nuclear stance, three weeks aheadof national elections that he istipped to lose.

Aso raised eyebrows at theHiroshima ceremony, when hepledged to work toward abolishingnuclear weapons but later told re-porters that he thought it was “un-imaginable” to attain a nuclear-freeworld.

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Obama in first summit withMexico, Canada leaders

trucks on its territory — in violation ofNAFTA — by slapping some 2.4 billion dol-lars in tariffs on 89 US products in March.

With Mexico’s news reports splashedwith daily violence, and killings in suspecteddrug attacks approaching 10,000 since thestart of 2008, Calderon may seek more sup-port for his controversial military crackdownon the country’s warring drug gangs.

The summit comes amid criticism of al-leged abuses by some of around 40,000troops deployed across the country, and re-ports of growing Mexican drug gang activ-ity across the United States, Canada andbeyond.

The United States — the world’s num-ber one cocaine consumer and a market forillegal weapons and money laundering forMexican drug gangs — for the first time thisyear admitted shared responsibility in theMexican drug cartel problem.

It has already agreed to some 1.4 billiondollars in security and justice aid to Mexicounder the three-year Merida Initiative, whichstill has to be fully approved by Congress.

Other key issues on the Guadalajaraagenda include curbing greenhouse-gasemissions ahead of a key climate summit inDecember, the threat of swine flu on the con-tinent worst hit by A(H1N1), the Hondurascrisis and immigration reform.

Some 1,200 federal police officers weredeployed around the city for the meeting, aswell as around 1,000 Mexican presidentialguards and other troops, Mexican officialssaid. Local rights and environmental groupsplanned demonstrations in the city on Sun-day.

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GUADALAJARA - Greenpeaceactivists climbed a main monument inthe Mexican City of Guadalajara Sat-urday in a bid to push climate changeup the agenda of talks between NorthAmerican leaders here this weekend.

President Felipe Calderon will hostCanadian Prime Minister StephenHarper and US President BarackObama for his first “three amigos”meeting in this western city on Sun-day and Monday, in which Mexico’swave of drug violence is a key issue.

A Greenpeace activist dressed as apolar bear held a sign reading “Realleaders back clean energy,” standingon a statue in La Minerva fountain inGuadalajara, as the pressure for con-crete promises on reducing emissionsincreased ahead of a worldwide cli-mate conference in Copenhagen in De-cember.

“We’re the region which contrib-utes most to climate change,” saidMaria Jose Cardenas, fromGreenpeace Mexico, stating that theregion emits 26 percent of worldwidegreenhouse gases. Activists called onthe three giant energy producers andusers to aim to generate almost 40 per-cent of their electricity from renew-able energy sources by 2020.

Joint security amid Calderon’scrackdown on drug cartels, swine fluand efforts to tackle the financial cri-sis are also key issues on the summitagenda.

Greenpeace pressures NorthAmerica leaders on climate

US top seed Roddick outlastedIsner 6-7 (3/7), 6-2, 7-5 and second-seeded defending champion Del Potroof Argentina beat Chilean fourth seedFernando Gonzalez 7-6 (7/2), 6-3 atthe 1.4 million-dollar hardcourt event.

Fifth-ranked Roddick, playing inhis first event since a five-setWimbledon final loss to RogerFederer, fired only nine aces to 20for Isner but hit 69 percent of hisfirst serves and made only two third-set unforced errors.

“I like being on the giving endof the big serve,” Roddick said.“John made me play my best ten-nis. Anything less than that wasn’tgoing to get it done.”

It took five break-point chancesin the third set before Roddick finallybroke compatriot Isner in thepenultimate game, then held serve towin after two hours and 31 minutes.

“I wasn’t converting but it’s notbecause I wassn’t putting the ballon the court. He was coming upwith the goods,” Roddick said. “Allyou can do is put yourself in posi-tion and hope you get that point.”

Roddick credits his improvedshotmaking to faster speed from

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MADRID - The skipper ofSpanish top flight side Espanyol,Dani Jarque, has died from a heartattack while on a pre-season train-ing camp in Italy.

The 26-year-old Jarque died atthe hotel where the team were stay-ing in the town of Coviciana. Hewas discovered in his room afterteammates realised he had not ap-peared for a meal.

The club said that team doctorsas well as Italian paramedics triedto revive the midfielder but with-out success.

The tragedy comes just twoyears after the death, also fromheart failure, of Sevilla defenderAntonio Puerta, who died aged 22after having collapsed during theopening game of the Spanish LaLiga season.

Espanyol confirmed the diagno-sis of heart failure and said the clubdoctor’s attempts to revive theplayer had failed. “It was a heartattack,” said club official Germande la Cruz.

“He was talking to his girlfriendwhen he suddenly began to feel un-well. He told her and then stoppedtalking. His partner got in touchwith the hotel and explained whathad happened but it was too late todo anything,” de la Cruz told LaSexta television.

Espanyol skipper DaniJarque dies of heart attack

Jarque had played forEspanyol since the 2002-2003season.

In the last campaign, he featuredin 36 legaue matches and scoredtwo goals. He was also a memberof the team which won the SpanishCup in 2006 and who were UEFACup runners-up in 2007.

European championsBarcelona, who are Espanyol’scity rivals, sent their condolencesto the Jarque’s family from theirAmerican tour base in San Fran-cisco.

Barca president Joan Laportatold www.fcbarcelona.com: “Weare filled with extreme sadness atthis tragic event and tonight weare in mourning.

“On behalf of Barcelona, wewant to send our deepest sympa-thies to Espanyol for the painfulloss of their captain Dani Jarque,and to his family.”

A minute’s silence was ob-served at the start of the secondhalf of a pre-season friendly at theMestella Stadium where Valenciawere taking on English side Ar-senal.

Players from both sides alsowore black armbands. RealMadrid as well as the Spanishfootball federation sent their con-dolences to Jarque’s family.

AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

Andy Roddick, of the Unites States, jumps while returning theball against Ivo Karlovic, of Croatia, at the quarterfinals of theLegg Mason Tennis Classic, in Washington, on Friday, Aug. 7,2009. Roddick won the match 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5).

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Kim Clijsters

Clijsters raring to get this comeback startedMonday.

The unseeded wild card Clijsterswon’t have it easy as her first matchis against 12th seededFrenchwoman Marion Bartoli.

Bartoli is fresh off an impressive

win over Venus Williams in the fi-nal of the Stanford Bank of the WestClassic.

“I see it as a second career,”Clijsters told The New York Timeson Saturday. “Honestly, the firstword that comes up is, oh, it’s acomeback. But so many things havechanged and so many things havehappened.”

Indeed the former world numberone racked up 34 singles titles whenshe retired in May 2007 at age 23,citing injuries and the upcomingmarriage. Two months later shemarried basketball player BrianLynch and then there was the birthof daughter Jada Ellie. During thattime of her life her father, Leo, suc-cumbed to lung cancer.

“In tennis, it’s very importantthat you’re very stable there, thehips and the core,” she said. “Withthe pregnancy, that’s something thatwas totally gone.”

Clijsters is in the same half ofthe draw as top seeded DinaraSafina and sixth seeded SvetlanaKuznetsova and could face either orboth if she should go on a run.

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WASHINGTON - Andy Roddick and Juan Martin Del Potrostruggled into the finals of the ATP Washington Classic on Saturday,Del Potro sagging in sweltering heat and Roddick tested by big-serv-ing John Isner.

better fitness.“It’s a lot easier to hit a passing

shot when you can get to it,”Roddick said.

Sixth-ranked Del Potro fired 10aces in hot and humid conditions onhis way to beating Gonzalez for thefirst time in four meetings betweenSouth America’s top players, whoeach reached this year’s FrenchOpen semi-finals.

“It was tough for both of us. Thecourt was so hot,” Del Potro said.“After the first set Fernando was sotired. Me too. It was very difficultfor both of us. We were very tiredand the sun was very strong.”

Gonzalez was so exhausted thatwhen he fell early in the second sethe stayed on his back until Del Potroclimbed over the net to help him up.

“He told me, ‘Come with me andgive up,’” Del Potro said. “I wasthinking lay down with him. If I didwe would never stand up. I didn’t.We kept playing like professionals.”

Del Potro won his only priormatch with Roddick in last year’sLos Angeles final and will try tobecome the first back-to-backWashington champion since Andre

Agassi in 1999.“I will have to play much better

than today,” Del Potro said. “He hasimproved a lot since we played.”

Roddick expects no trouble inSunday’s afternoon final after train-ing in Texas heat for weeks but doesanticipate seeing Del Potro at his best.

“I’m going to have to hit the ballreally well from the baseline,”Roddick said. “He drives the ballthrough the court as well as any-body. It’s a matter of surviving earlyon, getting it down hopefully towhere it’s just a few big points.”

Roddick, 26, seeks his 28th ca-reer crown and fourth in Washing-ton after taking the title in 2001,2005 and 2007, when he beat Isner,24, in the final. It would be his sec-ond ATP title of the year after aFebruary win at Memphis.

Del Potro, 20, seeks his sixth ca-reer title and second of the season af-ter winning at Auckland in January.

Isner, who will climb to 44thfrom 80th in the rankings, savedtwo break points in the openinggame of the third set and one eachin the ninth and 11th games beforeRoddick closed him out.

“Every service game I held wasa challenge and he eventually justbroke me down,” Isner said.

Roddick took a tumble diving fora return in the ninth game but wasunhurt. “I’m fine,” Roddick said.“I’m worried about the court.”

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Greenpeace protesters, one of them dressedup as a polar bear, put up a banner for theheads of state that will participate in the NorthAmerican Leaders Summit which says “Realleaders Back Clean Energy” at the landmark“Minerva” monument in Guadalajara, Mexico,Saturday Aug. 8, 2009.

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Chief Justice John Roberts admin-istered the oath in a brief televisedceremony held in a Supreme Courtconference room, with some 60 ofSotomayor’s friends and relativespresent. Minutes earlier Roberts ad-ministered a slightly different oath ina private ceremony.

The event caps the spectacular riseof Sotomayor, 55, from a gritty work-ing-class background through eliteUS universities and the federal benchto the top US judicial body, the finalarbiter on legal matters in the nation.

The New York-born Sotomayor,whose parents came from the UScommonwealth of Puerto Rico, tookthe oath with her left hand on a Bibleheld by her widowed mother Celina,as her younger brother Juan, a medi-cal doctor, stood smiling by her side.

The country’s 111th high courtjustice solemnly swore to “adminis-ter justice without respect for persons,and to equal rights to the poor and tothe rich,” and to “faithfully and im-partially discharge and perform” allof her duties as a Supreme Court jus-tice, “so help me God.”

“Congratulations and welcome tothe Court,” Roberts smiled, as heshook her hand immediately after theoath.

Sotomayor was confirmed by a68-31 margin in the US Senate on

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Thursday.Her detractors accused her of be-

ing a “judicial activist” and focusedfor weeks on a 2001 remark to lawstudents at a conference on Hispanicjudges.

“I would hope that a wise Latinawoman with the richness of her expe-riences would more often than notreach a better conclusion than a whitemale who hasn’t lived that life,”Sotomayor said at the event.

The remark made many conserva-tives nervous, with some calling her aracist. In the final poll, only nine outof the 40 Republican senators votedto confirm her.

Sotomayor, who has been a federaljudge for 17 years, replaces outgoingjustice David Souter, who announcedhis retirement in May after 19 yearson the Supreme Court.

President Barack Obama, whonominated Sotomayor for the job, wasnot at the event but will hold a WhiteHouse reception in her honor onWednesday.

The public swearing-in ceremonywas broadcast live on television — afirst, as the camera-shy justices do notallow televised broadcasts of its courtsessions.

In what is seen as a symbolic signof independence, Sotomayor chose tohave the ceremony at the Supreme

Court.The last two justices to take the

bench — Samuel Alito and John Rob-erts — were nominated by then-presi-dent George W. Bush and sworn in ata White House ceremony.

Sotomayor grew up in the Bronx,a working class borough of New Yorkcity. Her mother was a nurse and herfather was a blue-collar worker.

She graduated from elite IvyLeague universities, and was a Man-hattan prosecutor and corporate law-

yer before becoming a federal judge.Sotomayor is the first Supreme

Court justice nominated by a Demo-cratic president since 1994.

The new justice will have little timeto celebrate — the first case she willhear, concerning the constitutionalityof part of the McCain-Feingold cam-paign finance reform act, is scheduledfor September 8. Obama issued a state-ment on Sotomayor following the Sen-ate vote confirming her to the benchon Thursday.

Agence France-PresseCAIRO - The daughter of

Egypt’s slain president AnwarSadat has filed legal complaintsagainst the producers of an Ameri-can film which portrays a dognamed after her father, her lawyersaid on Saturday.

Roqeya Sadat’s complaintagainst the makers of the Holly-wood film “I Love You, Man” willbe heard by a Cairo court on Sep-tember 1, lawyer Samir Sabri toldAFP.

Sadat was shot dead by Islamicmilitants at a military parade in

Sadat daughter takes US film to court over dog named AnwarCairo on October 6, 1981, three yearsafter he signed the 1978 Camp DavidAccords that led to a 1979 peace treatywith Israel, the first by an Arab coun-try.

His daughter is furious over themovie in which the leading characterplayed by Jason Segel names his dogAnwar Sadat, claiming that he re-sembles the slain Egyptian president.

Roqeya Sadat has described themovie as “insulting” to the memoryof her father and was quoted byEgypt’s office news agency MENA assaying that it also “undermines Egyptand its role (of leadership) in the

Middle East.”The film, a romantic comedy di-

rected by John Hamburg forDreamWorks, was released in Egyptearlier this year but is no longer show-ing in movie theatres.

“We’ve filed a complaint onWednesday against the producers ofthe film, the actors and the companywhich distributed it in Egypt,” Sabrisaid.

“We also filed a complaint againstthe minister of communications” be-cause his office allowed the release ofthe film in Egypt earlier this year, headded.

According to him Roqeya Sadatwants all copies of the film to beseized, although the offensivemovie stopped being shown inEgyptian theatres in July.

It is not clear what the Egyptiancourt will decide.

But Sabri said that Sadat’sdaughter is determined to take thecase to US courts.

Last year Roqeya Sadat won acourt case against Hoda AbdelNasser, the daughter of her father’spredecessor, the late Egyptian presi-dent Gamal Abdel Nasser, who haddescribed Anwar Sadat as a US spy.

Lazio captain Tommaso Rocchisuperbly lobbed Inter keeper JulioCesar after finding a gap betweenthe Inter defence just after the hourto clinch the winner.

Two minutes earlier, Rocchi’s61st minute freekick found its waythrough the Inter wall and re-bounded off keeper Cesar, bobblingup into the path of Lazio’s Brazil-ian midfielder Matuzalem, whoslotted home to the delight of sev-eral thousand Chinese Lazio fans.

The quick double strike stunnedInter’s galaxy of stars and theirthousands of Chinese fans into arare silence after they had controlledaffairs on and off the pitch for mostof the tense final.

Staring defeat in the face, thenormally cool Inter manager JoseMourinho brought on Patrick Vieiraand replaced Serbian captain DejanStankovic with Mario Balotelli.

But it was new signing andCameroon star Samuel Eto’o —who had threatened several times —who fired into the roof of the Lazionet in the 75th minute to rally Interinto a frantic search for a dramaticcomeback.

Inter had controlled the game butwere frustrated numerous times bythe excellent Nestor Muslera in theLazio goal.

Another Inter new arrival, Ar-gentine Diego Milito, rolled the ballpast the stranded Muslera in the 81stminute only to be ruled agonisinglyoffside.

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Eto’o then went just wide with afree kick from just outside the boxin injury time.

And though Mourinho’s men laidsiege to the Lazio goal in the dyingminutes, it was the team from Romewho lifted the cup for a memorableparty spoiler in China’s Olympic sta-dium.

The Bird’s Nest played centrestage to China’s highly acclaimedand choreographed opening cer-emony for the 2008 Olympics andthe final was the first significantcompetitive sporting event to beplayed in the iconic stadium sincethe end of the Games.

The stadium, made of a lattice ofcement and steel, has largely servedas a tourist attraction since theGames ended, prompting criticismthat many costly Olympic venues aresitting idle and not being used forsporting events.

A year ago to the day, however,football chants replaced drummers,acrobatic dancers and singers withmany among the 65,000 in the80,000 seater stadium sporting rep-lica football shirts of their Italianheroes.

The Italian Super Cup is the sea-son curtain raiser contested by thewinners of Serie A and the domes-tic Italian Cup.

It is usually played at the homeof the Serie A champions. But in abid to broaden the appeal of Italianfootball it has been contested over-seas several times before.

Agence France PressePARIS - There was early

awayday cheer for title hopefulsMarseille on the opening day of thenew French league season Saturday,but Lyon and Paris St Germain hadto make do with draws.

Lyon were saved at the death bynew signing from Porto LisandroLopez, who netted a freekick to sal-vage a 2-2 draw at lowly Le Mans,who were twice ahead, while PSGstuttered to a 1-1 draw atMontpellier.

Former European championsMarseille, who have endured a 17-year wait for a league crown, wereahead after just two minutes atGrenoble as Mamadou Niang putthem in front having slalomedthrough a brittle home defence.

New Marseille coach DidierDeschamps, determined to bring thegood times back to the StadeVelodrome, permitted himself a nodof satisfaction on the bench as BenoitCheyrou secured the points with thesecond goal ten minutes from time.

Deschamps said: “There weremore positives than negatives. Wehad things pretty much under con-

Marseille off to French flier as Lyon, PSG heldtrol though many will say it’s logicalthat Marseille win at Grenoble. I hopewe can go on from here.”

Marseille finished three pointsadrift of champions Bordeaux lastterm and now are bent on going onebetter.

The Girondins, coached byDeschamps’ erstwhile French inter-national teammate Laurent Blanc,will take on Lens in Sunday’s game.

PSG, wholesale underachieverssince their last championship winback in 1994, again showed theirflaws in drawing 1-1 at Montpellier.

The hosts from the south weredown to 10 men for the last hour af-ter Cyril Jeunechamp was dismissedfor a second bookable offence forscything down PSG’s Ludovic Giulyfrom behind in the 27th minute.

Giuly exacted delicious revengeby firing home from close range inthe 71st minute after home keeperGeoffrey Jourdren spilled a shot fromveteran Claude Makelele.

But rugged Bosnian new signingEmir Spahic powered in a headerfrom inside the six-yard box on thestroke of time to deny the Parisiansall three points.

Lyon had a double fright, mean-while, at Le Mans, who were aheadon 21 minutes through Malian young-ster Modibo Maiga.

Mathieu Bodmer levelled sevenminutes later for Lyon, who couldonly come in third last season afterseven league title wins on the trot -when the run began they had neverlifted the trophy in their history - butMathieu Coutadeur scored from thepenalty spot on the hour to restore thehosts’ lead.

Brazilian defender Cris tangledwith Maiga to earn Le Mans thespotkick but just as an embarrassingloss loomed up popped Lopez to saveLyon’s blushes.

Elsewhere, Saint-Etienne, whojust survived last season after monthsof trials and tribulations which beliedtheir former status of French giants,went down 2-0 at home to Nice.

Auxerre also lost on home soil toSochaux by the only goal andnortherners Nancy won on their trav-els, 3-1 at Valenciennes.

Monaco thanked a first-halfstrike from Nene to see off Toulouse1-0 in the principality while Rennesswamped promoted Boulogne 3-0.

AFP PHOTO / JEAN-PIERRE CLATOT

Grenoble’s Romao (R) vies with Marseille’s Mamadou Niang dur-ing their French L1 football match Grenoble vs Sochaux onAugust 8, 2009, at the Stade-des-Alpes stadium in Grenoble.

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The Lazio team holds the Italian Supercup trophy after they won 2-1 against Inter Milan at China’sNational Olympic Stadium, also known as the Bird’s Nest, in Beijing, China, Saturday, Aug. 8,2009. The Italian season curtain raiser was held on the one year anniversary of the opening ofthe Beijing Olympic Games.

AP Photo/U.S. Supreme Court, Steve Pettewa

In this photograph provided by the U.S. Supreme Court, ChiefJustice John G. Roberts, Jr., right, administers the ConstitutionalOath to Judge Sonia Sotomayor in the Justices’ ConferenceRoom at the Supreme Court in Washington Saturday, Aug. 8,2009 as Sotomayor’s mother, Mrs. Celina Sotomayor, holds thefamily Bible during the ceremony.

Vladimir PutinMOSCOW - As

Vladimir Putin marks adecade in power, itappears the former KGBstrongman may maintainhis grip on Russia’sgovernment for years tocome. Supporters credithim with rescuing theeconomy from the post-Soviet doldrums andrestoring national pride.Critics say the price -rolling back democraticreforms and stiflingdissent - has been toohigh.

Human rightsLONDON - A report by

lawmakers says Britainshould closely monitorU.S. activity on the IndianOcean island of DiegoGarcia to ensure theBritish territory is notused for the rendition orinterrogation of terrorsuspects. Moved.

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BEIJING - A blockadearound a remotenorthwest Chinese townwhere deadly pneumonicplague killed threepeople and sickened ninehas been lifted after nonew infections werereported, an official says..

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The Islamist was killed Saturdaymorning in a hail of gunfire and explo-sions from US-trained counter-terrorismforces who had surrounded his sus-pected hideout in remote Beji village,Central Java, according to local media.

The 17-hour siege of the farm-

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JAKARTA - Indonesian police said Sunday it could take twoJAKARTA - Indonesian police said Sunday it could take twoJAKARTA - Indonesian police said Sunday it could take twoJAKARTA - Indonesian police said Sunday it could take twoJAKARTA - Indonesian police said Sunday it could take twoweeks to confirm the death of Asian terror mastermind Noordinweeks to confirm the death of Asian terror mastermind Noordinweeks to confirm the death of Asian terror mastermind Noordinweeks to confirm the death of Asian terror mastermind Noordinweeks to confirm the death of Asian terror mastermind NoordinMohammed Top, who was reported killed in a dramatic standoffMohammed Top, who was reported killed in a dramatic standoffMohammed Top, who was reported killed in a dramatic standoffMohammed Top, who was reported killed in a dramatic standoffMohammed Top, who was reported killed in a dramatic standoffwith police special forces.with police special forces.with police special forces.with police special forces.with police special forces.

house was the culmination of a se-ries of raids and arrests of his ac-complices which uncovered a plotto attack President Susilo BambangYudhoyono’s home outsideJakarta, police said.

Agence France-PresseMELBOURNE - India’s for-

eign minister met Sunday with aMelbourne-based student whosestabbing earlier this year set off awave of protest over allegedly rac-ist attacks in Australia.

Foreign Minister S.M. Krishnamet Sravan Kumar Theerthala,who spent weeks in a coma fight-ing for his life after being stabbedin the head with a screwdriver bygatecrashers at a party in late May.

The incident turned the spot-

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light on a spate of violence towardsIndian students in Australia’s larg-est cities, straining relations withNew Delhi and sparking street pro-tests by fellow students in Sydneyand Melbourne.

AUTOSPORT understands thatyesterday, FIA president MaxMosley wrote to the seven teamson the ‘reserve list’ - those underconsideration for a place on thegrid that did not receive an auto-matic entry in July - as well asBMW Sauber, to inform them thata place on the grid has becomeavailable.

Peter Sauber is still workingwith BMW to put a rescue pack-age in place for the team he is a20% partner in, but the Swiss wasnot able to secure the necessaryfunding in time to meet lastWednesday’s deadline to sign the

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nal place on the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship entry list,nal place on the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship entry list,nal place on the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship entry list,nal place on the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship entry list,nal place on the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship entry list,in the wake of BMW’s announcement that it is withdrawing fromin the wake of BMW’s announcement that it is withdrawing fromin the wake of BMW’s announcement that it is withdrawing fromin the wake of BMW’s announcement that it is withdrawing fromin the wake of BMW’s announcement that it is withdrawing fromthe sport at the end of the year.the sport at the end of the year.the sport at the end of the year.the sport at the end of the year.the sport at the end of the year.

new Concorde Agreement.Therefore, while sources suggest

that Sauber is making progress tosecure the budget to save his epony-mous outfit, the FIA is inviting what-ever BMW Sauber should becometo tender its application alongside theother seven hopefuls selected fromthe original 15 applications, to pitchfor the final place on the grid.

Epsilon Euskadi has already sig-nalled its intention to re-apply, whileDavid Richards’ Prodrive outfit isbelieved still to be interested shouldthe conditions be right to enter F1.

Epsilon Team boss JoanVilladelprat told AUTOSPORT last

Chris Vermeulen has admittedthat he may have to move awayfrom Suzuki next year as he is des-perate to be racing at the front inMotoGP.

The Australian wants to remainloyal to Suzuki but says he has toput his own career first, whichcould mean switching brands if theJapanese manufacturer is unable toup its performance for next year.

“Suzuki gave me my break inMotoGP, I came here as a factoryrider,” Vermeulen toldAUTOSPORT. “I’ve had somevery good times with them and I’vehad some bad times, but my goalis to be world champion.

“I am looking to be on the best

Vermeulen could look beyond Suzukimotorbike that is going to give methe chance to be world champion,whether that’s a Suzuki next year oranother brand, I haven’t made a de-cision on that yet. My goal is to winraces for myself.

“Riders in the past have stayed toolong with bikes that haven’t been thebest and that is something I have re-ally got to consider for next year. Ican’t afford to... well, from my pointof view I don’t want to have anotheryear like this year. I want to be fight-ing for podiums week-in, week-outnot for the second last row of thegrid.”

But Vermeulen is hopeful thatSuzuki will be able to take a signifi-cant step forward in the remainder

of this season, beginning at Brnonext weekend.

“There have been very small dif-ferences in our bike which I am frus-trated about because I was hopingfor a lot more to come, but wehaven’t been able to make the bestout of the one-make tyre at the mo-ment.

“Our main Japanese boss who Ihave got a lot of respect for, ShinichiSahara, was the head at the race trackbefore he was promoted. He is veryhigh up in the factory now. He hasbeen working hard back there, butwe haven’t seen him for a while. Heis coming to Brno and I am hopinghe is coming with a bag full of good-ies for us to try.”

BP/doc

The FIA has re-opened the selection procedure for the final place on the 2010 Formula 1 WorldChampionship entry list

week: “We are still working on theproject, at a much slower rate obvi-ously because we don’t have the se-curity [to be on the grid].

“What we can say is that thepeople who were interested in help-ing us are still interested, which issomething incredible. And if theopportunity arises, we are going toattack it, there’s no doubt about it.”

Indian External Affairs MinisterSM Krishna (R) sits with Indian

student Sharvan Theerthalawho was attacked and stabbed

with a screwdriver, inMelbourne on August 9, 2009.

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

Indonesian police officers stand guard at a militant safe house a day after it was raided in Temanggung, central Java,Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. Southeast Asia’s most wanted terror suspect was reportedly killed during a 16-hour siegeon the suspected militant hide-out that ended Saturday when police stormed the house, but officials said they could not yetconfirm he was among the dead.

AFP PHOTO/Paul CROCK

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