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Kabul suicide bomb kills 13 U.S. troops, civilians | Video
KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber on Saturday killed 13 troops and civilian employees of the NATO-led force in Kabul, including Americans and a Canadian, in the deadliest single ground attack against the coalition in 10 years of war in Afghanistan.
"Five International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service members and eight ISAF civilian employees died following a suicide vehicle-born improvised explosive device attack in Kabul earlier today," ISAF said in a statement.
A Canadian military spokesman said one of the dead was a Canadian soldier. The Pentagon said earlier all 13 of the ISAF fatalities were American. But after the Canadian death was reported, a Pentagon spokesman said Americans were among the dead but that authorities were checking the identities of those killed.
Three other civilians and a police officer were also killed in the attack on a convoy of military vehicles, a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry said.
Lethal attacks are relatively rare in the heavily guarded capital, Kabul, compared with the south and east of Afghanistan, but Saturday's killings came less than two months after insurgents launched a 20-hour assault on the U.S. Embassy in the capital.
The assault on the ISAF convoy took place late in the morning in the Darulaman area in the west of the city, near the national museum.
The former royal palace, now in ruins, is also in the area, along with several government departments and Afghan and foreign military bases.
The Taliban later claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it packed a four-wheel-drive vehicle with 700 kg (1,500 pounds) of explosives.
SECURITY HANDOVER
The attack is likely to heighten worries about the reach of insurgent forces as the United States and its allies prepare to hand over responsibility for security to Afghan forces by 2014.
"We are confident we can undertake the transition," NATO's senior civilian representative in Afghanistan, Simon Gass, said at a meeting in Kabul on Saturday before the attack. "If we compare the security situation to how it was two years ago, we can see very dramatic improvements in many areas."
In two other attacks on Saturday, three Australians and an Afghan linguist were killed in Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan when an attacker wearing an Afghan National Army uniform opened fire on them, authorities in neighboring Kandahar province said.
In Kunar province, east of Kabul, a teenage female suicide bomber killed herself and wounded several National Directorate of Security members in an attack on the NDS building.
ISAF commander General John Allen condemned the attacks in a statement later on Saturday, as did the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
"Our common enemy continues to employ suicide attackers to kill innocent Afghan fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, as well as the Coalition forces who have volunteered to protect them," Allen said in a statement.
A spokesman for U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the Pentagon chief was determined the United States would continue its "aggressive pursuit of the enemy."
Violence across Afghanistan is at its worst since the start of the war 10 years ago, according to the United Nations, despite the presence of more than 130,000 foreign troops.
ISAF says there has recently been a fall in attacks by insurgents, but that data exclude attacks that kill only civilians and attacks on Afghan security forces operating without international troops.
On Thursday, insurgents armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades attacked two bases used by foreign troops in southern Afghanistan. An Afghan interpreter working for ISAF was killed in that attack, which stretched into Friday before the last of the four insurgents were killed.
There has been a series of high-profile assassinations, as well as day-to-day attacks by Taliban raiders, over the past year.
More than a dozen people were killed in the September attack on the U.S. Embassy and ISAF headquarters.
(Reporting by Christine Kearney; Writing and additional reporting by Daniel Magnowski in Kabul, Susan Cornwell in Washington and Janet Guttsman in Toronto; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
Experts try to cast doubt in Jackson doctor case (AP)
LOS ANGELES ? The battle of scientific experts in the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor took a new turn late Thursday as defense lawyers made an 11th hour disclosure that their scientific expert has devised a new computer simulation shedding light on what killed the pop superstar.
Prosecutors told the judge they were surprised by the new development and need time to study the software program used by Dr. Paul White, a top expert on the anesthetic propofol. The judge agreed.
He said White could conclude his defense testimony Friday but he would give the prosecution the weekend to analyze the computer data before the star witness of Dr. Conrad Murray's defense is cross-examined.
"This is extraordinarily complicated material," said Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor.
The developments were gleaned at the end of the court day from a transcript of a lengthy private conference with lawyers in the judge's chambers.
The new twist means another delay in the trial's conclusion, the judge said, and he worried aloud, "I just don't know if we are going to start losing jurors."
"This jury is extraordinarily dedicated to the case," he said. "But they have lives and commitments."
Jurors were told at the outset that they would be finished with the trial Friday, Pastor said. Now, he said, he's not sure when the trial will conclude.
The defense, meanwhile, sought to shift blame to another doctor and a drug different from the anesthetic that killed Jackson. Murray's lawyers called an expert to testify that the star was addicted to a Demerol in the months before his death.
They suggested the singer's withdrawal from the painkiller triggered the insomnia that Murray was trying to resolve when he gave Jackson propofol.
Murray's attorneys claim the ultimate blame lies with Jackson himself, but they also sought to implicate his dermatologist in the drug-laced path to his June 2009 death.
They called White to the stand late in the day to cast doubt on a colleague's earlier testimony that Murray was responsible for Jackson's death.
Court recessed before White gave his central opinion. He did say he was "perplexed" after reading documents in the case about whether Murray administered the propofol dose that killed Jackson.
White noted that Murray described to police a very low dose of the drug. If that was true, White said, "I would not have expected Michael Jackson to have died."
White said if Murray did in fact put Jackson on an IV drip of propofol and leave him unattended, he could not justify it. White did not immediately offer an alternate theory of what happened.
Authorities contend Murray delivered the lethal dose and botched resuscitation efforts. Murray has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death.
There was no mention of propofol during the testimony of Dr. Robert Waldman, an addiction expert who said he studied the records of Dr. Arnold Klein, Jackson's longtime dermatologist, in concluding the star was dependent on Demerol. Records showed Klein used Demerol on Jackson repeatedly for procedures to enhance his appearance.
No Demerol was discovered in the singer's system when he died, but propofol was found throughout his body.
Waldman relied on Klein's records from March 2009 until days before Jackson died. Waldman said he was not shown earlier records and didn't review a police interview of Murray about his treatment of the star.
Under questioning by Murray's lead lawyer, Ed Chernoff, Waldman said, "I believe there is evidence that he (Jackson) was dependent on Demerol, possibly."
Klein has emerged as the missing link in the involuntary manslaughter trial, with the defense raising his name at every turn and the judge ruling he may not be called as a witness because his care of Jackson is not at issue. He has not been charged with any wrongdoing.
But Klein's handwritten notes on his visits with Jackson were introduced through Waldman, who said Klein was giving Jackson unusually high doses of Demerol for four months ? from March through June 2009 ? with the last shots coming three days before the singer's death.
Over three days in April, the records showed Jackson received 775 milligrams of Demerol along with small doses of the sedative Versed. Waldman's testimony showed Klein, who also was Jackson's longtime friend, was giving the singer huge doses of the powerful drug at the same time Murray was giving Jackson the anesthetic propofol to sleep.
"This is a large dose for an opioid for a dermatology procedure in an office," Waldman said.
He told jurors the escalating doses showed Jackson had developed a tolerance to the drug and was probably addicted. He said a withdrawal symptom from the drug is insomnia.
On cross-examination, prosecutor David Walgren tangled with the expert, who was hostile to most of his questions. He elicited from Waldman that the law requires physicians to keep accurate and detailed records, which Murray did not. The doctor also said all drugs should be kept in a locked cabinet or safe where they could not be stolen or diverted by anyone.
Waldman said every doctor also must document when the drugs are stored and when they are used. Murray told police he kept no records on his treatment of Jackson.
Waldman, who has treated celebrities and sports stars at expensive rehab clinics, told jurors treatment can work if the addict is willing to admit a problem.
Several prosecution experts have said the propofol self-administration defense was improbable, and a key expert said he ruled it out completely, arguing the more likely scenario was that Murray gave Jackson a much higher dose than he has acknowledged.
Jackson had complained of insomnia as he prepared for a series of comeback concerts and was receiving the anesthetic and sedatives from Murray to help him sleep.
Murray's police interview indicates he didn't know Jackson was being treated by Klein and was receiving other drugs.
In response to questions from a prosecutor, Waldman said some of the symptoms of Demerol withdrawal were the same as those seen in patients withdrawing from the sedatives lorazepam and diazepam. Murray had been giving Jackson both drugs.
White is expected to be the final defense witness.
White and Waldman do not necessarily have to convince jurors that Jackson gave himself the fatal dose, but merely provide them with enough reasonable doubt about the prosecution's case against Murray.
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AP Entertainment Writer Anthony McCartney contributed to this report. McCartney can be reached at http://twitter.com/mccartneyAP.
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Tango video calling service for Windows Phone Mango set to roll out November 7th
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Friday, October 28, 2011
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2 workers plead guilty to murder in abortion case
Two abortion clinic workers pleaded guilty Thursday to third-degree murder in deaths that occurred at a Philadelphia clinic where seven babies were allegedly born alive, then killed with scissors, and a patient died from an overdose of painkillers.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
DreamWorks 3Q falls as 'Panda' sales below 'Shrek' (AP)
LOS ANGELES ? DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. says its net income fell by half in the third quarter as its early summer release "Kung Fu Panda 2" did not haul in as much at the box office as last year's "Shrek Forever After."
The company said Tuesday that net income in the three months to Sept. 30 fell to $19.7 million, or 23 cents per share, from $39.8 million, or 47 cents per share, a year ago.
Analysts polled by FactSet were looking for adjusted earnings of 20 cents per share.
Revenue dropped 15 percent to $160.8 million from $188.9 million a year ago. That was slightly better than the $159 million expected by analysts.
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Ex-Goldman director Gupta charged in insider case (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Rajat Gupta, who sat on the boards of some of America's most prestigious companies, was arrested and charged on Wednesday with being the "illegal eyes and ears" for his friend Raj Rajaratnam, the central figure in a broad U.S. crackdown on insider trading at hedge funds.
Gupta, 62, a former director of Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Procter & Gamble and former global head of McKinsey & Co consultancy, is the most prominent executive to face charges since Rajaratnam was arrested in October 2009. He faces five counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy tied to what prosecutors say were his leaks of Goldman and P&G secrets to Rajaratnam in 2008 and 2009.
Galleon Group hedge fund founder Rajaratnam, 54, was sentenced to 11 years in prison this month after an overwhelming insider-trading conviction. The sweeping Galleon case caught many of his associates on secretly recorded phone calls, and many of them have also been prosecuted in the case.
Gupta's lawyer, Gary Naftalis, said in a statement that there were legitimate reasons for communications between his client and Rajaratnam, including a $10 million investment that Gupta had in a fund managed by the Galleon founder. Gupta lost the entire amount, Naftalis said.
"We are confident that these accusations -- which are based entirely on circumstantial evidence -- cannot withstand scrutiny and that Mr. Gupta will be completely exonerated of any wrongdoing," Naftalis said.
He said Gupta did not trade in any stocks and did not tip Rajaratnam so he could trade.
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Manhattan U.S Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement on Wednesday that Gupta had been entrusted by top companies.
"As alleged, he broke that trust and instead became the illegal eyes and ears in the boardroom for his friend and business associate, Raj Rajaratnam, who reaped enormous profits from Mr. Gupta's breach of duty," Bharara said.
Gupta surrendered to FBI agents and will appear in federal court in New York later on Wednesday. He also faces civil charges brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC said Rajaratnam's funds made more than $23 million on Gupta's information.
The criminal charges carry a maximum prison sentence of 25 years.
MCKINSEY'S GLOBAL HEAD
Gupta was global head of McKinsey for nine years until he retired in 2007. He won a seat on the board of directors of powerful Wall Street bank Goldman in 2006 and left in May 2010, seven months after Rajaratnam's arrest. He was also a director at P&G and American Airlines Corp.
Stephen Cohen, a spokesman for Goldman Sachs, declined to comment on Wednesday. Representatives from Procter & Gamble, American Airlines and McKinsey also declined comment.
Gupta was born in India but made his name in the U.S. corporate world after graduating with an MBA from Harvard Business School.
The SEC said Gupta had business dealings with Rajaratnam and "stood to benefit from his relations" with him; Gupta was an investor in Galleon entities that "traded -- and handsomely profited -- based on Gupta's illegal tips."
The government contends that Gupta provided Rajaratnam with advance knowledge of Warren Buffett's $5 billion investment in Goldman at the height of the 2008 financial crisis, as well as information about Goldman's surprise fourth-quarter loss in 2008 and its first as a public company, and P&G quarterly earnings in late January 2009.
The accusations had already been revealed ahead of Rajaratnam's trial or during the two month-long trial. Prosecutors had previously described Gupta as an unindicted co-conspirator but had not lodged formal charges.
Rajaratnam, who was born in Sri Lanka and became a billionaire through his hedge fund business, was convicted in May of 14 insider-trading related charges. His 11-year sentence is the longest recorded for insider trading.
Goldman Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein testified at the trial for the prosecution about Gupta's conduct on the bank's board. Prosecutors also played secretly recorded telephone conversations to the jury in which Rajaratnam told Galleon employees about information he had received from Gupta about Goldman Sachs.
Wednesday's indictment said that on Oct. 23, 2008 Gupta called Rajaratnam 23 seconds after disconnecting from a Goldman board call and spoke to Rajaratnam for 13 minutes, disclosing negative interim earnings results.
In one recording played at the trial, Rajaratnam was on a call with David Lau, chief of Galleon's Singapore branch, on Oct. 24, 2008. They discussed a tip he got from a board member that Goldman was on its way to a surprise fourth-quarter loss, its first as a public company.
"I just heard from somebody who's on the board of Goldman Sachs, they are gonna lose $2 per share," Rajaratnam was heard saying. "So what he (the board member) was telling me was that, uh, Goldman, the quarter's pretty bad."
The Rajaratnam trial punctured McKinsey's reputation for closely guarding client confidentiality. Former McKinsey executive Anil Kumar, also a one-time friend of the hedge fund manager, pleaded guilty and testified against Rajaratnam.
(Reporting by Grant McCool, Basil Katz and Jonathan Stempel, editing by Gerald E. McCormick, Lisa Von Ahn, Dave Zimmerman and Robert MacMillan)
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Ouster of Syria's Assad would be 'opportunity' for Israel (video) (Christian Science Monitor)
?No Entry? trio to return in the sequel
?No Entry? makers have confirmed that its second part is in the offing. Earlier the rumor mills were churning that due to Salman?s tight schedule the comic caper was stalled but writer -director Anees Bazmee has ensured that the film is pretty much on the track. He stated, “In fact as we talk, I have [...]
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Apple MacBook Pro (late 2011) line-up gets processor and graphics boost
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Nevada Gives, And GOP Primary Will Wait for 2012 (The Atlantic Wire)
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
Gadhafi's death resonates with Lockerbie relatives
Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, makes a statement outside his London residence No.10 Downing Street, about the death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in Libya Thursday Oct. 20, 2011. "Today is a day to remember all of Gadhafi's victims," Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron said, referring to those in Libya and also the 270 victims _ mainly British and American _ killed in the 1988 Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie, in Scotland. "We should also remember the many, many people who died at the hands of this brutal dictator and his regime," Cameron said, pledging assistance to Libya's leaders as they form a new government. (AP Photo/PA, Stefan Rousseau) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE
Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, makes a statement outside his London residence No.10 Downing Street, about the death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in Libya Thursday Oct. 20, 2011. "Today is a day to remember all of Gadhafi's victims," Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron said, referring to those in Libya and also the 270 victims _ mainly British and American _ killed in the 1988 Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie, in Scotland. "We should also remember the many, many people who died at the hands of this brutal dictator and his regime," Cameron said, pledging assistance to Libya's leaders as they form a new government. (AP Photo/PA, Stefan Rousseau) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE
CHERRY HILL, New Jersey (AP) ? Susan Cohen had been waiting for this day since her daughter was blown out of the sky by a terrorist bomb in 1988, allegedly at the behest of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Thursday morning, she got the news: Gadhafi was dead. And she planned to keep a promise that she had made long ago.
"I'm just going to go out and buy an expensive bottle of champagne to celebrate," she said.
Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988, killing all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground. Many victims were Americans from New Jersey and New York flying home for the holidays.
The U.S. government implicated Gadhafi's regime, and a Libyan intelligence agent, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, was convicted as the mastermind.
He was released from British captivity in 2009 on humanitarian grounds because he was supposedly near death. But the fact that he remains alive two years later remains a concern to U.S. officials and relatives of the victims.
Kara Weipz, whose 20-year-old brother, Richard Monetti, was aboard the flight, said she was stunned to hear of the dictator's death. She was feeling "relief, knowing he can't hurt and torture anyone else. For 20-some years, I never thought this day would come. The world is a better and safer place today."
Her father, Bob Monetti, said there's still a lot of information that relatives need to know.
"There are a number of people who were involved in the bombing who have not been arrested or captured," he said.
Weipz said Gadhafi's death still doesn't end the Lockerbie story.
"Ultimately, the one thing I hope is he had evidence on him," she said. "All the families really want to know the truth of how this happened. That has been our motto since 1988, and it remains our motto in 2011."
In London, British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged assistance to Libya's leaders as they work to form a new government.
"Today is a day to remember all of Gadhafi's victims," he said. "We should also remember the many, many people who died at the hands of this brutal dictator and his regime."
Bert Ammerman, whose brother, Tom, died in the bombing, praised President Barack Obama with the military action that resulted in the death of Gadhafi, as well as that of Osama Bin Laden.
"He eliminated bin Laden; he's now eliminated Gadhafi. That's the right way to go," he said. "We never again should occupy these countries; we should use our technology, our intelligence and work through an allied group like NATO. And if we do that we will eliminate, I think, future areas of state-sponsored terrorism."
Cohen said she spent an anxious morning devouring news reports that initially hinted ? but could not confirm ? that Gadhafi was dead.
"This was sort of like Dracula: Is Dracula really dead?" she asked. "It's great now that we know. I didn't want him to go to a trial. When you have a tyrant, a monster like him, we're all better off with him dead. Now there can be no illusion of him ever returning to power."
News of Gadhafi's death was met joyously by members of Southern California's small Libyan-American community. Most will not return to Libya, but all have friends or relatives there.
"Every family that I know is happy. We were calling each other at 4:30 this morning ... congratulating each other," said Idris Traina, president of the Libyan-American Association of Southern California.
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Parry reported from Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Shawn Marsh and Larry Rosenthal in Trenton, Robert Jablon in Los Angeles and David Stringer in London.
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Wayne Parry can be reached at http://twitter.com/WayneParryAC.
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U.S. Man Diagnosed With HIV Develops Leprosy (HealthDay)
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Ohio doctors report they got a diagnostic surprise when an HIV patient tested positive for the bacterium that causes leprosy.
What was even more surprising was that the initial infection most likely occurred decades earlier, from exposure to an armadillo.
Soon after starting treatment for the HIV infection, the Ohio man developed lesions on his skin that didn't respond to antibiotic treatment. His doctors eventually confirmed that the lesions were caused by Mycobacterium leprae bacteria, an infection more commonly known as leprosy.
"With the way he presented, typically, any clinician would think of an infection with bacteria, and that's what we were thinking, but he was not responding to regular antibiotic treatment," said Dr. Madhuri Sopirala, the lead author of a letter on the unusual case in the Oct. 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
And, it was his failure to respond to antibiotic treatment that prompted his physicians to look for less common reasons for the man's condition.
Leprosy, which is also called Hansen's disease, is quite uncommon in the United States. In 2008, the last year for which statistics are available, just 150 people contracted Hansen's disease in the United States, according to the National Hansen's Disease Program. The majority of these cases occurred in California, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York and Texas.
The main symptom of the disease is skin lesions that may be raised or flat, light-colored or pigmented, and there may be no feeling within the skin lesion. The disease can only be diagnosed through a skin biopsy, and long-term treatment with antibiotics is effective when started early.
People who live in Texas or Louisiana are more likely to contract Hansen's disease, as are people who've traveled to parts of the world where leprosy is still common.
In April, Hansen's disease experts added armadillo exposure to the list of possible risk factors, cautioning that people should stay away from armadillos.
In the case of the Ohio man, however, he hadn't been around armadillos since he was a teenager. He was 41 when he was diagnosed with Hansen's disease. He had never traveled outside of the United States, and said he hadn't been around anyone who had lived in areas where leprosy was still common. He had lived in Ohio all of his adult life, but had grown up in Mississippi, where he hunted armadillos as a teenager and touched their carcasses.
"The long duration of incubation is not a surprise to people who deal with this disease -- 20 years' incubation is not outside of our experience," said Dr. David Scollard, chief of the clinical branch and a pathologist at the National Hansen's Disease Program. "And, we have certainly seen this turn up as an opportunistic infection in people who are immunosuppressed: people with HIV, people who have had heart or kidney transplants, people receiving chemotherapy, [and people on certain medications that dampen the immune system response]. The biggest problem we have is that most clinicians don't think of it."
Sopirala, who is with the Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, said that if someone has symptoms consistent with leprosy, such as skin lesions that have no feeling of pain, and the symptoms don't improve with antibiotic treatment, leprosy should be considered as a possible diagnosis, especially if someone lives or has lived in an area of the southern United States where armadillo exposure is a possibility.
"This was a nice piece of detective work," Dr. Richard Truman said of the study. "Leprosy remains a very rare disease, but it's another one of the diseases that should be considered with chronic [skin] lesions that don't respond to treatment," he said. Truman is a research scientist from the National Hansen's Disease Program at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Russian air force jet crashes killing 2 (AP)
MOSCOW ? A Russian military jet crashed in the country's far east Thursday, killing both crewmembers, officials said.
Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Igor Konashenkov said in a televised statement that the Su-24 bomber crashed while landing at the Ukrainka air base in the Amur region near the border with China. He said both crewmembers died when the plane overturned and burst into flames.
The jet was flying from its base in Voronezh in western Russia to undergo planned repairs at an aircraft-making plant. There was no damage on the ground.
Russia's main investigative agency has opened a probe into the crash, the cause of which wasn't immediately known. Konashenkov said the air force will conduct an inspection of its entire Su-24 fleet following the crash.
The twin-engined Su-24 has been an important component of the Soviet and then Russian air force since the 1970s.
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Learning to walk on err
Calculated missteps open gait to flexible adjustments
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Stroke survivors and other patients trying to relearn how to walk due to weakness on one side of the body may reap benefits from being forced to stumble and stagger.
Healthy adults made to switch between a regular and an unusual walking pattern on a special treadmill relearned the strange stride much faster the next day than volunteers who had practiced only the unusual gait, neuroscientist Amy Bastian of the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore and her colleagues report in a study in the Oct. 19 Journal of Neuroscience.
Not surprisingly, participants who learned and then unlearned an unusual walking pattern while adjusting to a new walking style took lots of clumsy steps when trying to relearn the original pattern, some reminiscent of Monty Python?s old skit about the Ministry of Silly Walks. Yet these individuals had the last laugh, because they learned how to correct awkward leg limps and body lurches that occur in the early stages of adapting to a new gait, the researchers propose.
Practice at switching gaits helps people learn how to adjust for initial missteps when attempting an alternative walking style, Bastian says. She calls this process ?learning to learn? from one?s mistakes, so that movements can be realigned quickly as needed.
Gait-switching volunteers weren?t aware that they learned anything, but the next day they realized that it was easier to adopt the odd walking style.
Standard therapy for stroke patients trying to relearn walking and other motor skills consists of practicing desired movements over and over. Bastian?s team plans to test whether training these patients instead to alternate between different treadmill strides improves their walking ability.
?The learning-to-learn effect has exciting potential for rehabilitation training,? remarks neuroscientist Rachael Seidler of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Practice at learning and unlearning different gaits may also benefit astronauts and others whose jobs require moving in and out of novel environments, says Seidler, who studies how people acquire motor skills.
In the new study, Bastian and her colleagues trained 52 adults to walk on a split-belt treadmill. This contraption consists of separate belts that can be driven at the same speed for both legs or at different speeds, so that one leg has to move faster than the other to maintain balance.
One group was assigned to spend 15 minutes on belts moving at different speeds. A second group walked on belts that alternated between different speeds and identical speeds over 25 minutes. A third group negotiated belts moving at different speeds for 15 minutes, with two five-minute breaks.
The next day, participants who had practiced switching between normal and lopsided gaits needed substantially fewer steps than the others to relearn the unusual walking pattern.
A second treadmill experiment found that volunteers relearned a speeded-up right leg stride faster if they had practiced switching between that gait and a speeded-up left leg pattern the day before, versus practicing only the rapid right-leg walk.
Found in: Behavior, Humans and Psychology
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Clinton hails "Libya's victory" on Tripoli visit (Reuters)
TRIPOLI/SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) ? Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hailed "Libya's victory" during a visit to Tripoli but fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi were still holding out in his home town, underscoring the challenges facing the country's new leaders.
Clinton is the most senior U.S. official to come to Tripoli since Gaddafi's 42-year rule ended in August. Her visit was marked by tight security, reflecting worries that Libya's new rulers have yet to establish full control over the country.
After meeting Libya's de facto prime minister, Mahmoud Jibril, she spoke of the need to bring the powerful and heavily-armed regional militias that emerged from the war to oust Gaddafi under central rule.
"We are encouraged by the commitment of the National Transitional Council (NTC) to take the steps necessary to bring the country together," Clinton said.
"From long experience one factor we know has to happen ... is unifying the various militias into a single military ... Getting a national army under civilian command is essential."
Though the militias express loyalty to the new government, many analysts see them as the biggest threat to Libya's unity.
The United States took part in the NATO bombing campaign that helped Libya's rebels take power, although its aircraft largely played a secondary role to those of Britain and France.
"I am proud to stand here on the soil of a free Tripoli and on behalf of the American people I congratulate Libya," Clinton said. "This is Libya's moment, this is Libya's victory, the future belongs to you."
NATO reiterated on Tuesday that its mission was very close to an end but said it was premature to set a timetable for a conclusion of its operations, which alliance officials expect to be announced in coming weeks.
"We are very close to the end, but there are still threats to the civilian population. And as long as these threats persist, we will continue," spokeswoman Carmen Romero told a regular briefing.
SIRTE SETBACK
Nearly two months since capturing Tripoli, the NTC has stamped out most pro-Gaddafi resistance but has so far failed to capture Sirte, a city on the Mediterranean coast that Gaddafi made into a showpiece for his autocratic rule.
That failure has raised questions about the NTC's ability to exert its authority over the entire country and postponed the launch of its promised democracy program.
NTC forces were a few days ago poised to declare victory in Sirte, but on Tuesday they were being forced to retreat in some places and taking intense fire from the dwindling force of Gaddafi loyalists boxed into a small area of the city.
At the eastern end of Sirte's seafront, a Reuters reporter saw the spot where, an hour earlier, mortars had landed in a cluster of NTC fighters.
Thirteen of them were killed in the incident, witnesses said. Blood from one of the victims stained the steps of a nearby house.
In several places in the city, locations that a day earlier were firmly under the control of anti-Gaddafi fighters were too dangerous to access because of fire coming in from loyalists.
On the edge of the "Seven hundred" district, the front line had not moved but the mood of optimism among NTC fighters had been replaced by despair at the mounting casualties.
Sirte is now the last major Libyan town where pro-Gaddafi forces are holding out, after the other bastion of resistance, Bani Walid, fell to the country's new rulers on Monday.
PREMATURE CELEBRATION
The scenes in Sirte were in contrast to events earlier this week, when Gaddafi loyalists offered little resistance as NTC forces pummeled them with tank fire and mortars.
Libya's new rulers were so confident of their imminent victory in the town that NTC chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil visited Sirte last week and was greeted by fighters firing triumphantly into the air.
But the NTC offensive -- by mostly amateur fighters -- has been hampered by a lack of coordination.
Units which converged on Sirte from Benghazi in eastern Libya and Misrata to the west have lost men in "friendly fire" incidents, when they have fired at each other by mistake instead of at the Gaddafi loyalists.
Another frustration for NTC leaders is that Gaddafi, wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of ordering the killing of civilians, has not been captured. He is in hiding, possibly deep in Libya's Sahara desert.
"We don't know where he is but we hope he can be captured or killed soon, so you don't have to fear him any longer," Clinton said during a meeting with students at the University of Tripoli. "Then you have to move forward."
(Additional reporting by Taha Zargoun and Rania El Gamal in Sirte, and Yasmine Saleh in Tripoli, David Brunnstrom in Brussels; Writing by Christian Lowe and Joseph Nasr; Editing by Giles Elgood)
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
China Eastern cancels order for Boeing 787s
CHICAGO (AP) ? Boeing is losing a major customer for its new 787.
China Eastern Airlines Corp. says it has canceled an order for 24 of the planes worth more than $3 billion at list prices. Instead, the Hong Kong-based airline will take 45 new Boeing 737s worth about the same amount.
China Eastern also says it will buy 15 new Airbus A330s, worth about $2.5 billion at list prices.
Last month, Boeing finally delivered the first 787 to a customer, but it was three years late. The delays have forced airlines to revise their fleet plans and have cost Boeing goodwill with its airline customers.
Chicago-based Boeing Co. still has orders for about 800 of the 787s.
Boeing shares rose 92 cents, or 1.5 percent, to $62.70 in late morning trading Tuesday.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
F1 champs Button, Hamilton pay tribute to Wheldon (AP)
LONDON ? Formula One champions Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton hailed fellow Briton Dan Wheldon as a "true fighter" and an "inspirational" figure after the IndyCar driver was killed in a massive crash in Las Vegas.
Button recalled Wheldon, who died Sunday at the age of 33, as being a star of the British karting circuit in the 1990s before going on to win the Indianapolis 500 twice.
"I have so many good memories of racing with Dan in the early 90s, a true fighter," Button said on Twitter.
"We've lost a legend in our sport but also a great guy ... I can't begin to imagine what his family are going through and my thoughts are with them at this very difficult time."
Wheldon, who was born in Buckinghamshire, a county just north of London, was also an inspiration to Hamilton after deciding to try his luck in the U.S. following a successful junior career during which he won eight British karting titles.
"Dan was a racer I'd followed throughout my career, as I often followed in his footsteps as we climbed the motor sport ladder in the UK," said Hamilton, Button's teammate at McLaren.
"He was an extremely talented driver. As a British guy who not only went over to the States but who twice won the Indy 500, he was an inspirational guy, and someone that every racing driver looked up to with respect and admiration. This is a tragic loss at such a young age."
Hamilton finished second in Sunday's Korean Grand Prix, with Button fourth.
Wheldon died Sunday after a massive, fiery wreck at the Las Vegas Indy 300. He was involved in a 15-vehicle pile-up, his car flying over another and bursting into flames.
Wheldon was born in the small English village of Emberton and began driving go-karts as a 4-year-old.
Having failed to secure financial backing for his career in Europe, he moved to the U.S in 1999. In 2005, he became the first English driver since Graham Hill in 1966 to win the Indy 500. Wheldon won the race for a second time this year.
Despite his success and stardom in the U.S., Wheldon was relatively unknown in his home country. Formula One racing grabs all the media coverage in Europe, with IndyCar receiving little notice.
Wheldon had been scheduled to compete next weekend at Surfers Paradise, Australia, in the Gold Coast 600 race, teaming with V8 Supercar champion James Courtney as a co-driver for two 186-mile touring car races on Saturday and Sunday.
Five other IndyCar drivers are scheduled to compete on the Gold Coast, including Australian Will Power, who suffered back injuries in Sunday's crash in Las Vegas.
V8 series chairman Tony Cochrane said he expects some of the American-based drivers to pull out.
"If any driver wishes to pull out in respect, we would fully appreciate and understand that and be as supportive as we can," Cochrane said Monday. "And we will find replacement drivers for anyone who wishes to drop out this weekend. We will cross that bridge and worry about that when we get over the initial shock and deal with it in due course."
Cochrane said a memorial service would be held on Saturday morning at the Gold Coast track.
"He was very much looking forward to having his first ... go in a V8 Supercar this coming weekend," Cochrane said. "We have just been reminded in the most tragic of circumstances what can happen in motorsport. This is a terrible day."
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AP Sports Writer Dennis Passa contributed to this report.
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Monday, October 17, 2011
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Sprint customers line up as it gets 1st iPhone (AP)
NEW YORK ? Apple stores got the longest lines as the new iPhone model launched Friday, but there were lines at Sprint stores too, as the carrier got a chance to sell the phone more than four years after the first model was launched.
Product chief Fared Adib said that by midday, the iPhone had broken Sprint's record for first-day sales of any phone. Sales were above the company's expectations, he said, without giving any figures.
Sprint Nextel Corp. joined bigger carriers AT&T and Verizon Wireless as a seller of the phone. Spot checks in Philadelphia and San Francisco showed that the lines outside Sprint stores were longer than at its rivals.
Meanwhile, a representative for AT&T said that as of 4:30 EDT, it had activated a record number of iPhones and was on track to double its previous single-day record for activations.
Sprint is struggling to compete with the bigger carriers and expects the iPhone to help it keep subscribers.
In Chicago, 18-year-old Torian Marshall was among the 150 or so people lined up outside an Apple store on Friday morning. He had been holding off on getting an iPhone until his service provider, Sprint, got it.
"I'm so excited. I've been waiting forever," he said.
Kaufman Bros. analyst Ben Abramovitz said talks with about 50 people in line for the phone at a Sprint store revealed that most of them are current Sprint customers looking to upgrade, particularly BlackBerry users looking for a more Internet-friendly phone. He also found some AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA customers looking to switch.
Sprint will be paying a lot of money to put iPhones in customer hands: It's subsidizing each iPhone 4S by about $400 to get it down to the $200 price for the 16 gigabyte version. It's also selling the cheaper iPhone 4.
Credit ratings agency Moody's Investor Service on Friday downgraded Sprint's debt, sending it further into speculative-grade, or "junk" territory. Part of the reason is the cash drain that iPhone sales will cause before they start paying off through higher monthly service fees.
The chief reason behind the downgrade, however, is Sprint's decision to upgrade its wireless network for faster data speeds, Moody's said. Sprint revealed that decision a week ago, to the dismay of investors.
Sprint's stock increased 1 cent to close Friday at $2.79.
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AP Writer Barbara Rodriguez in Chicago contributed to this report.
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