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NEW YORK - A 1984 MichaelJackson portrait by iconoclastic USartist Andy Warhol was auctioned for“millions” of dollars in New York onTuesday, less than two months afterthe pop icon’s tragic death.

“The auction was quite success-ful,” Janet Lehr, owner of LongIsland’s Vered Art Gallery, told AFP.

“We can’t talk about price. Wedon’t report price. It’s in the rangeof millions.”

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This handout image courtesy ofVared Gallery in New York showsa 1984 synthetic 30-inch by 26-inch polymer painting of MichaelJackson by Andy Warhol.

Warhol portrait of Michael Jacksonauctioned for ‘millions’

The gallery earlier estimated thatthe portrait, which measures 30 by26 inches (76.2 by 66 centimeters),could fetch 10 million dollars.

The deal, Lehr said, was a goodone for both the buyer and the seller.

“A speculator outdid the art col-lectors,” she said, without reveal-ing the buyer’s identity. “He tookadvantage of the situation.”

The portrait was purchased for278,500 dollars in May at theSotheby’s auction house, and thebuyer decided to sell it after

Jackson’s sudden death on June 25shocked the world and sparked re-newed interest in the tragic life ofthe “King of Pop.”

The auction was to conclude onJuly 12, but Vered Art stopped thesale after receiving a massiveamount of inquiries. The galleryhad received offers online and bytelephone.

In recent years, other Warholportraits of Jackson have found nobuyers, including one put on theauction block in London in 2008.

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In a picture released by the Malaysian Police department Malaysian firefighter vessel sprays water onto a burning oil tanker,MT Formosa Product Brick, near the coast of Port Dickson, 50km south of Kuala Lumpur, on August 19, 2009, after it collidedwith another vessel. Fire crews on August 19 battled a blaze aboard a Taiwanese oil tanker carrying 58,000 tonnes of naphthafuel in the Malacca Strait after it collided with another ship, Malaysian police said. Nine Chinese crew members were missingafter the tanker collided with a Greek-managed bulk carrier vessel on the vital Asian shipping route.

AUTOSPORT understands thatKovalainen’s option for next year withMcLaren has now lapsed, although theteam has not ruled out retaining theFinn. Team principal MartinWhitmarsh has made it clear howeverthat Kovalainen needs to deliver morein the next few races than he has shownso far this season - and the Finn wasinformed of the situation during a fac-tory visit on Wednesday.

“Heikki is doing, as a team player,a fantastic job in this team,” Whitmarshsaid in a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes‘Phone-In’ media call. “On his ownevaluation he has not raced as well ashe would have liked and we would haveliked him to this year.

Brno- Honda riders Dani Pedrosa andAndrea Dovizioso declared themselvespleased with the progress the team madeduring Monday’s test day at Brno.

Pedrosa finished the day third fastest,behind Yamaha riders Jorge Lorenzo andValentino Rossi, while Dovizioso wasfifth behind Loris Capirossi’s Suzuki.

Despite the day’s meaningful runningbeing liminted by rain in the afternoon,the pair sampled several new parts andexpect the developments to help themmake a push to catch Yamaha in the re-maining races this year.

“It was a useful test session today,even though the rain tried to mess withour plans, and I hope that what we’velearnt can help us for the next races,” saidPedrosa.

“In the morning we worked on someset-up improvements from the race week-end and we were able to find some morespeed. After lunch we were set to trysome new suspension components,which we managed to do when the track

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Spain’s Dani Pedrosa rides his Honda during the MotoGP test session at the Brnocircuit in Brno, Czech Republic, on Monday, Aug. 17, 2009.

Honda boosted by test progressdried after the rain.

“Of course it takes time to perfect theset-up when you try new things, but our pacewas quite good and the feeling was prom-ising. Overall, this was a worthwhile test.”

Dovizioso was encouraged after test-ing development suspension parts for thefirst time and was also happy with thegains.

“It was good to get some testing timetoday because the new rules mean anyextra track time is very valuable,” he said.“It was an interesting day because wetried quite a few set-up options includingsome different suspension parts, and thiswas a first for me.

“Because of the limited time, wecouldn’t evaluate their full potential, butthe initial feedback was positive. We alsocontinued to work with the set-up for thenew swingarm we used this weekend andmanaged to improve our speed.

“Honda is working very hard for theremaining races and also for next year,and the team is fully committed.”

Kovalainen toldto raise his gameGermany - Heikki Kovalainen has been told that he needs to

raise his game over the remainder of the season if he is to haveany chance of keeping hold of his seat at McLaren in 2010.

“I was frankly just talking to himon the subject a few minutes before thiscall. He is working hard...

“A lot of us want to see Heikki getsome good results this year, and thatwill ensure that he remains with us.That is certainly our wish. His goalgoing into Valencia this weekend is towin - and he is capable of winning therace this weekend.

“He has been a good qualifier, hehas done some good qualifying times,and he is capable of qualifying welland winning this race. So that is whathe is going to focus on, and I’ve justhad that conversation with him. Thenon Sunday evening he will start think-ing about Spa, and that is what we want

Nine Chinese crew members weremissing after the tanker collided witha Greek-managed bulk carrier vesselon the vital Asian shipping route.

Stricken Taiwan tanker ablazein Malacca Strait: policeAgence France Presse

KUALA LUMPUR - Fire crews on Wednesday battled a blaze aboard a Taiwanese oil tankercarrying 58,000 tonnes of naphtha fuel in the Malacca Strait after it collided with anothership, Malaysian police said.

“The MT Formosa ProductBrick is on fire and is now listingon its left side. We fear it maysink,” local marine police chief

Rizal Ramli told AFP.“The collision happened last

night in clear weather off PortDickson. We have rescued 16 crew

members, mainly of Chinese nation-ality,” he said, adding that two of therescued crew were Taiwanese.

The police chief of the southernstate of Negeri Sembilan, OsmanSaleh, told AFP the ship was loadedwith 58,000 tonnes of naphtha andwas heading for South Korea viaSingapore.

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him to focus on - not all the specula-tion.”

In a boost to Kovalainen’s situation,McLaren is adamant it has not begundiscussions with any other driver yetabout a seat in 2010, despite freshrumours linking Nico Rosberg with theoutfit now that the German’s previouslikely destination BMW Sauber is outof F1. “Speculation is normal,” saidWhitmarsh. “We are not commentingon it, but I can confirm that contrary tosome of the speculation we are not indiscussions with any other drivers out-side this team at the moment.”

And, denying any talk that McLarenwas under pressure to take a Germandriver to appease engine partnerMercedes-Benz, Whitmarsh said: “Interms of nationality, obviously somenationalities from a marketing perspec-tive are more convenient.

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Evans made made his farewell ap-pearance in 2005 in the southern Span-ish coastal town of Benalmadena, aserious knee injury from his early daysplaying rugby having caught up withhim.

But after reconstructive surgery —not to mention a quadruple heart by-pass — “El Ingles”, who turned 67 onTuesday, is ready to do battle again andmakes his official comeback on August30 in Benalmadena.

“Inside, I am 25,” joked the manstepping back into an arena now domi-nated by glamorous, athletic youngbullfighters. “I keep myself very fit andas long as I can cope with it I’m goingto carry on,” he told AFP.

The matador, who lives in Marbella,near Benalmadena, is not fazed by be-ing an Englishman in the deeply His-panic culture of bullfighting.

“The bull doesn’t ask to see my birthcertificate, so it’s the same for all of us,”he said during a trip back to his home-land.

Evans reckons his unusual originsmay have even helped him in his un-likely choice of career.

“People maybe would buy a ticketjust to see what I can do, because theycan’t imagine what an Englishman cando with a muleta in his hand,” he said,referring to the matador’s cape.

Just how did a man from Salford inManchester, northwest England, end up

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LONDON - As if being the only British matador did not makehim enough of an unlikely figure in the Spanish bullring, formerbutcher Frank Evans is returning to fight again at the age of 67.

in a Spanish bullring?Evans recounts his remarkable jour-

ney in “The Last British Bullfighter”,his autobiography which hit the shelvesthis month.

His fascination with bullfightingwas triggered by a trip to Spain in 1963.But it was reading the 1950s autobiog-raphy of Vincent Hitchcock, the firstBritish bullfighter, which inspired himto give it a go himself.

“It suddenly occurred to me that itwas possible for an Englishman to be-come a matador. It began to dawn onme that, if he could do it, then so couldI”, Evans wrote in his memoirs.

At the age of 22, Evans leftManchester and work in his father’sbutcher’s shop to start on his quest inSpain. However, becoming a fully-fledged matador would be a long anddifficult adventure.

After two years in a bullfightingschool in Valencia, he made his debutin 1966 in Montpellier in southernFrance.

“It was a success. I killed the bullquickly,” he said.

Despite his promising start, a short-age of money, equipment and honestpromoters caused Evans to throw in thetowel at the end of the 1960s. He re-turned to England to find work andsettled down with his wife Margaretand their two children.

But becoming a successful business-

man did not dampen his passion forbullfighting, so in 1979 he returned toSpain and seized every opportunity toget into the bullring.

“I’m not a bullfighter for financialpurposes,” he explained.

“I do it because I have a vocationfor it. I love doing it, the people involvedin it, I love all the travelling you do, thetraining; I just love the whole thing.”

His efforts finally paid off in 1991,when, at the age of 49, he took the“alternativa” — earning the right tofight mature bulls as a fully-fledgedmatador.

After his “alternativa”, Evans spentanother 10 hard years struggling tomake his name, until he received a callfrom a promoter who offered him acontract in Benalmadena.

Although he was well into his fif-ties, it was the springboard for his ca-reer, with fights in Spain, France andMexico.

“Most people would have stoppedfighting by then, and all of a sudden Iwas given my opportunity and after 40years I became an overnight success,”he said, adding that he reached a ca-reer-high ranking of 63 in 2003.

Just as they did against Hull onSaturday, Chelsea showed admirableresilience on Tuesday to recover af-ter Sunderland poured forward in theopening 45 minutes at the Stadiumof Light and took a surprise leadthrough Darren Bent.

Ancelotti insisted that he was notworried at any stage of the first half,although his gestures on thetouchline occasionally suggestedotherwise.

But, eventually, Chelsea provedthat class usually comes out on topin Premier League as goals fromMichael Ballack, Frank Lampardand Deco sealed the points.

Ancelotti said: “I am very happy.I thought we played very well in thesecond half. I know we went behind,but we had control of the match andgood possession.

“There wasn’t a lot of shootingfrom us, but we had control of them.Sunderland were strong in defencein the first half and applied pressure.

“They ran a lot and they weretired, which made it more difficultfor them to control us.”

Chelsea have now gone behind inall three of their matches this season,including the Community Shieldagainst Manchester United, but

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LISBON - Fiorentina earned avital 2-2 draw away from homeat 10-man Sporting Lisbon in the

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NEW YORK - In2005, an Israeli manflew to New York togive up a kidney tosave an Americanbusinessman. NickRosen says he waspaid $20,000, whichappeared in a brownenvelope on hishospital bed after theoperation. The casegives resonance toclaims that a blackmarket for kidneys hasthrived in the U.S.

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The daughter ofoverthrown ChileanPresident SalvadorAllende requests viaTwitter that Brazil openany secret archivesthat could shed light onany role it played in the1973 coup that killedher father.

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TOKYO - SopranoHildegard Behrens,one of the finestWagnerian performersof her generation, hasdied while traveling inJapan. She was 72

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This handout picture obtained on August 14, 2009 shows Brit-ish matador Frank Evans. As if being the only British matadordid not make him enough of an unlikely figure in the Spanishbullring, former butcher Frank Evans is returning to fight againat the age of 67. Evans made made his farewell appearance in2005 in the southern Spanish coastal town of Benalmadena, aserious knee injury from his early days playing rugby havingcaught up with him.


SUNDERLAND - Carlo Ancelotti believes Chelsea’s 3-1 winat Sunderland gave an indication that his stars are determinedto fight for the Premier League title.

Ancelotti said: “I am not concernedabout coming from behind.

“It can happen in football andwhat’s important is to show a goodreaction and not be afraid when youdo go behind.

“We have been behind in threematches, but still showed good con-trol.”

There was much to admire in theway Sunderland played, butSunderland boss Steve Bruce re-served most of his praise for the westLondon club who are certain to bechallenging for the title again.

Bruce said: “Sometimes you justhave to admit you’ve been wellbeaten by a very good team. It seemedat times that we’d had a man sent off.

“We gave everything we couldgive, but couldn’t cope with the waythey moved the ball. It was a verydifficult evening for us.

“We all aspire to be the best butwhen you see a performance like thatyou can see why they will be there orthereabouts in every competition.”

Chelsea took control of the secondhalf and Ballack equalised beforeLampard’s penalty and Deco’s strikeerased the memory of their first halfdifficulties.

“Darren got a wonderful goal and

we were very pleased at half time,”said Bruce.

“But Chelsea were terrific andplayed to their maximum. They’re thereal deal and that’s why they are topof the tree. Anybody who beats themwill win the league.”

Ancelotti made four changes to the

team that beat Hull and the formerAC Milan coach added: “I changedit because I have very good qualityplayers and I want to use them be-cause we have a lot of matches. I wantto keep them fresh and in good con-dition.”

He also ruled out any chance of

selling Deco, who was outstanding.“He doesn’t want to change and wedon’t want him to change,” Ancelottisaid.

“Deco is working very well now.This is a very important year for himbefore the World Cup. He played verywell - for himself and for the team.”

Ten-man Sporting hold FiorentinaChampions League play-off roundhere on Tuesday.

The Ital ians wil l now befavourites to progress to the com-petition group stage following

next week’s second leg in Flo-rence.

The visitors took an early leadwhen Juan Vargas lashed home alow shot from outside the area.

Alberto Gilardino had crossedfrom the right and the Peruviantook the ball on his chest, bundledthrough a weak tackle and senthome a strike on six minutes thatRui Patricio got a hand to butcouldn’t keep out.

Fiorentina were lucky not tohave a man sent off, though, whenAlessandro Gamberini tangledwith Sporting’s Brazilian forwardLiedson.

Gamberini appeared to lash outwith his hand in Liedson’s neckbut was only shown a yellow card,as was Sporting’s Montenegrostriker Simon Vukcevic, whoshoved the Italian in the chest fol-lowing the original fracas.

That was followed by a spell ofhome dominance with Evertontarget Joao Moutinho forcingFrench goalkeeper Sebastien Freyinto a sprawling low save.

Former Tottenham forwardHelder Postiga went close againin first half stoppage time butcurled his effort just past the up-right.

The Portuguese predictablycame out firing at the start of thesecond period and deservedlydrew level on 58 minutes when

Vukcevic pounced on a kind de-flection in the box to slide homepast Frey.

However, the Montenegranthen stupidly removed his shirt incelebration and was promptlyshown a second yellow card andsent to the stands.

Even so, the hosts extendedtheir lead on 66 minutes as MiguelVeloso thrashed home an unstop-pable shot into the top corner fromoutside the box.

That opened up the game withFiorentina pushing forward for anequaliser and Sporting looking tohit them on the counter.

Riccardo Montolivo cameclose to restoring parity as he ranthrough two tackles but then shottoo close to Patricio.

However he then fashioned LaViola’s stunning leveller asGilardino took his chip into thebox on his chest before proddinghome a volley with the outside ofhis right boot.

Substitute Stevan Jovetic al-most snatched a winner for thevisitors three minutes from timebut after leaving two men on theseat of their pants in the box, heshot straight at Patricio.AFP PHOTO/ FRANCISCO LEONG

Fiorentina’s Alberto Gilardino (L) kicks the ball toscore 2-2 against Sporting during their first-legChampions League play-off football match atAlvalade Stadium in Lisbon on August 18, 2009.

AP Photo/Scott Heppell

Chelsea’s Frank Lampard, right, has a shot toward’s goal past Sunderland’s Phil Bardsley, left,during their English Premier League soccer match at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, En-gland, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009.


MIAMI - Hurricane Bill, the firstof the Atlantic storm season, strength-ened late Tuesday to a major Cat-egory Three status with wind speedsnear 125 miles (205 kilometers) perhour, the National Hurricane Centersaid.

The hurricane was moving in anorth-westerly direction, and on itscurrent track is projected to turn northand largely miss the US coastline.

An Air Force reserve hurricanehunter plane that flew into the Atlan-tic storm indicated “that Bill hasstrengthened and maximum sus-

Hurricane Bill strengthens to Category Three statustained winds have increased to near 125MPH,” the center said in an interimadvisory.

That made Bill “a Category 3 Hur-ricane on the (five-level) Saffir/Simpson hurricane scale,” it said in abrief statement.

The Miami-based Hurricane Cen-ter said earlier that at 2100 GMT Tues-day, the hurricane was located about635 miles (1,025 kilometers) east of theLeeward Islands and heading west-northwestward toward the US main-land at nearly 16 mph (26 kph).

“West-northwest motion is expectedto continue for tonight followed by aturn toward the northwest on Wednes-

day,” forecasters said.The hurricane’s projected track is in

the Atlantic, “well to the northeast” ofthe Caribbean’s Leeward Islands.

The Hurricane Center’s extendedforecast puts the far northeastern UScoastline on the eastern edge of Bill’sbroad “cone of uncertainty” by Sunday.

Tropical Storm Claudette, whichblew up in the Gulf of Mexico onSunday and lashed Florida resortswith strong winds and heavy rain,weakened Monday to a tropical de-pression as it moved across the south-ern United States.

Tropical Storm Ana, the firstnamed storm of the season, also lost

its punch as it moved quickly atmaximum winds of 34 mph (55kph) across the Caribbean, with alltropical storm watches discontin-ued in the region.

In the Pacific, Tropical StormGuillermo was moving northwestat about 20 mph (33 kph) at 0200GMT Wednesday.

A day after weakening rapidlyfrom a hurricane, the storm was 570miles (917 km) northeast of Hilo,Hawaii, according to the CentralPacific Hurricane Center.

The Atlantic hurricane seasonbegan on June 1 and ends on No-vember 30.

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But Obama praised Israel for curtail-ing new tenders for settlements in the WestBank and urged Arab states and Palestin-ians to join the Jewish state in taking“risks” to pull the stalled peace processout of a rut.

Mubarak, in his first presidential sum-mit in the United States in five years, ar-gued that rows over issues like settlementsand proposals for piecemeal Arab conces-sions to Israel were bogging the processdown.

“We need to move to the final statussolution and level,” Mubarak told report-ers as he sat with Obama in the Oval Of-fice.

“I have contacted the Israelis and theysaid ‘perhaps we can talk about a tempo-rary solution,’ but I told them ‘No’, I toldthem ‘forget about the temporary solution,forget about temporary borders.’”

Final status talks would tackle the mostintractable issues in the Middle East, in-cluding the status of Jerusalem in perpe-tuity, the borders of a final Palestinian stateand the right of return for Palestinian refu-gees.

Israeli Foreign Minister AvigdorLieberman told US lawmakers last weekthat pushing for a fast-track deal over thenext year would not work and proposedconcentrating on security and Palestinianeconomic conditions.

Obama, throwing himself deeper into


TEGUCIGALPA - Interim leaders in Honduras who backedthe June 28 ouster of President Manuel Zelaya on Tuesday brokeoff diplomatic ties with Argentina, which has made a strongpush to return the deposed leader.

The de facto leaders said they were breaking off relations onthe basis of “strict reciprocity” after Argentina last week ex-pelled the Honduran ambassador over her support for the mili-tary coup.

Diplomatic relations would now pass through the Israeliembassy in Argentina, they said in a statement.

Argentina’s diplomatic chief responded in Mexico that hiscountry’s diplomats had no plans to leave their embassy in Hon-duras.

“Argentina’s diplomatic staff is in Tegucigalpa and they don’thave a (leaving) date at all,” Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana said.

The interim Honduran leadership headed by RobertoMicheletti has already told Venezuela’s envoys to leave, but theyhave refused.

Argentina last Thursday expelled the Honduran ambassadorto Buenos Aires, Carmen Eleonora Ortez Williams, and Presi-dent Cristina Kirchner has been among the staunchest defend-ers of Zelaya’s right to return to power.

Taiana — part of a delegation from the Organization ofAmerican States (OAS) due to travel shortly to Honduras —earlier told AFP that other countries should do more to helpresolve the political crisis in the impoverished Central Ameri-can country.

Dozens of Hondurans meanwhile met with members of theInter-American Commission on Human Rights, who are on amission to investigate alleged rights violations by the interimgovernment.


HAVANA - A delegation of senior US Roman Catholic clergycalled here Tuesday for closer ties between Washington andHavana following moves by President Barack Obama to im-prove ties with the communist island.

Ties between the Cold-War foes have thawed since Obamabecame president in January, with US nationals of Cuban de-scent now more easily travelling and sending money to Cuba.

However there are no signs yet that the US trade embargo onthe island, in place since 1962, could be lifted.

“The important thing is not to lose the opportunity of in-creased closeness and understanding between our two govern-ments,” said Thomas Wenski, the bishop of Orlando, Florida.

“I believe that the church, here and there, should advocatefor this,” said Wenski, speaking in Spanish at a Havana pressconference Tuesday.

Wenski is part of a delegation of bishops that began a four-day visit to the island on Monday. The delegation includes Bos-ton Cardinal Sean O’Malley and the auxiliary bishop of SanAntonio, Texas, Oscar Cantu.

Wenski said that the Obama administration has been review-ing Washington’s policy towards Cuba “step by step, which maybe a slow process.”

Senior Cuban and US clergy “are trying to influence the po-lices” of both governments, said Wenski, who spoke after ameeting with Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega.

“We should encourage them for there to be freedom of travelas well as a lifting of the embargo,” Wenski said.

O’Malley, who said he has visited Cuba several times overthe past 20 years, said there has been a “notable improvement”of ties between Havana and the church since Pope John PaulII’s visit in January 1998.

The head of the Cuban Episcopal Conference, ArchbishopDionisio Garcia, told AFP that the visit of US clergy is part ofthe pope’s appeal to increase Cuba’s openness to the world.

In April, Obama acknowledged that Washington’s policiestoward Cuba, including a decades-old embargo, had failed, butsaid that issues such as political prisoners, freedom of speechand democracy in Cuba could not be brushed aside in any newapproach toward the country.

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WASHINGTON - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told US President Barack Obama Tuesday that finalstatus talks and not a “temporary solution” suggested by Israel represented the sole route to Middle East peace.

the mire of Middle East peacemakingwhich has confounded his predecessors,was optimistic, despite little progress sofar for his peace effort.

“If all sides are willing to move off ofthe rut that we’re in currently, then I thinkthere is an extraordinary opportunity tomake real progress, but we are not thereyet.”

The US president also praised the Is-raeli government for deciding not to issuenew tenders for settlement construction inthe occupied West Bank until early 2010.

“There has been movement in the rightdirection,” Obama said, saying the Israeligovernment was taking its talks withWashington seriously amid a rare publicshowdown between the two allies.

“My hope is that we are going to seenot just movement from the Israelis, butalso from the Palestinians around issuesof incitement and security, from Arabstates that show their willingness to en-gage Israel.”

But Palestinians and other critics dis-missed the Israeli move as insignificant,pointing out that construction continues onthe ground in a number of settlements inPalestinian territory.

Obama has been pushing Arab statesto make small concessions to Israel to un-lock stalled peace moves and has calledon the Jewish state to halt settlement ex-pansion.

But Mubarak told Obama he would notoffer concessions until Israel took its own“concrete steps,” his spokesman SolimanAwaad said, adding that Arab states be-lieved Netanyahu deliberately slowedpeace efforts during his first spell as Is-raeli leader.

“It’s like an egg and chicken situation,”Awaad said. “He told him it won’t fly. Hereminded him that this was a deja vu situ-ation.”

Awaad also told reporters the US presi-dent hoped to unveil a comprehensiveMiddle East peace plan at around the timeof the UN General Assembly (UNGA)next month.

“Today, Mr. Obama said that hope-fully after (Obama’s Middle East peaceenvoy George) Mitchell and Netanyahumeet next week, the peace blueprintshould be there in the course of nextmonth, in September,” Awaad said.

White House spokesman RobertGibbs denied any knowledge of sucha plan, though he said the UNGAwould be an important chance to forgeprogress. The US State Departmentconfirmed plans for Mitchell to meetNetanyahu before the end of themonth.

During his first White House talkswith Obama, Mubarak poured praise onthe US president over his historic addressto the Muslim world in Cairo in June.

AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

President Barack Obama leans in to talk with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009,in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

Cuba’s Olympic champion andworld record holder Dayron Robleswas also left uncertain for the semi-finals of the 110m hurdles after bat-tling through his heat with an injuredleft lead leg to eventually clock theslowest time of all qualifiers.

Dibaba, a two-time world cham-pion over the 5000m (2003 and2005) who is also the Olympic10,000m champion, had alreadypulled out of the longer race lastweekend after suffering from anankle injury all season.

Turkey’s Ethiopian-born doubleOlympic silver medallist ElvanAbeylegesse, who pulled up duringthe 10,000m race, also failed to startthe 5000m.

It was instead Dibaba’s arch-ri-val and compatriot Meseret Defar,the reigning world champion, whoset the fastest qualifying time, win-ning her heat in 15min 15.45sec.

“I pushed the pace because I’vebeen a little bit sick and I wanted tosee how my body would respond,”said Defar. “I feel okay. I’m pleasedI qualified because I really want towin the final.”

She will be accompanied inSaturday’s final by a trio of team-

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Cuba’s Dayron Robles competes in a Men’s 110m Hurdles firstround heat during the World Athletics Championships in Berlinon Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009.


TORONTO - Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine upsetthird-ranked Venus Williams 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 in the secondround of a two million-dollar WTA hardcourt tournamenthere on Tuesday.

Williams, who enjoyed a first-round bye, roared to aquick victory in the opening set but by the finish had fallento 0-3 all-time in the Canadian WTA event, the final majortuneup for many players ahead of the US Open.

“I was definitely expecting to play well and to go veryfar in the tournament,” Williams said. “It’s disappointing.”

Williams was not the only seed sent packing.


TORONTO - Carlos Delfino,a guard from Argentina who spentlast season playing in Russia, wastraded Tuesday by the TorontoRaptors to the Milwaukee Bucksin a four-player NBA deal.

The Raptors obtained forwardAmir Johnson and swingmanSonny Weems while the Bucks re-ceived Delfino and Croatian guardRoko Ukic.

“Carlos made it clear he wouldprefer to play elsewhere if he wereto return to the NBA,” Raptorspresident Bryan Colangelo said.

“There were limited sign andtrade scenarios available, but ac-quiring Amir Johnson in this dealgives us another long, talentedyoung big man whose best basket-ball is ahead of him.”

Delfino averaged 9.0 pointsand 4.4 rebounds for Toronto inthe 2007-2008 season while Ukic,who played six seasons in Europebefore reaching the NBA last sea-son, averaged 4.2 points, 2.1 as-sists and 12.4 minutes in 72games.

Johnson, who played four sea-

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BERLIN - Ethiopian world medal hopes were dealt a further blow Wednesday when Olympicchampion and world recorder holder Tirunesh Dibaba pulled out of the women’s 5000m here.

mates - Sentayeju Ejigu, MeselechMelkamu and Genzebe Dibaba.

Kenyans Vivian Cheruiyot, SylviaKibet and Iness Chenonge all alsolooked comfortable while progressingat a sun-baked Olympic Stadium.

There looked like being an upsetbrewing in the 110m hurdles whenRobles found himself in sixth place atthe halfway mark of his heat.

Robles, sporting a bandaged leftthigh under his singlet, fairly labouredover the first five hurdles with his leadleft leg failing to snap out over thehurdle.

But he somehow managed to findthe reserves to pull through the field andsneak into third in 13.67sec.

“I feel pain in my left thigh,” Rob-les admitted. “I don’t know what’s go-ing on. I thought it was only a smallproblem but now I know that I reallyhave a problem.

“I cannot say that I’ll continue to runor not. I’ll talk with the physiotherapistand doctor, and we’ll see.

“I promised Fidel Castro to bringhome the gold medal for him and I wantto keep my promise. I am a warrior andI will fight.”

There was also not a good start tothe day for Robles’ fellow Cuban

Leonel Suarez in the decathlon.The Olympic bronze medallist and

firm favourite for the 10-sport, two-dayevent in the absence of American Olym-pic champion Bryan Clay, only man-aged 11.13sec in the 100m and 7.24min the long jump, ranking 23rd out ofthe 38 starting competitors.

American Trey Hardee ran a verydecent 10.45sec and jumped a best of7.80m to lead the overall standings af-ter two events.

There was also heartbreak for reign-ing world silver medallist MauriceSmith of Jamaica who pulled up dur-ing the 100m with what looked like ahamstring injury.

In qualification for the women’s dis-cus throw, Olympic championStephanie Brown Trafton failed to hitthe minimum standard of 61.50m, man-aging a best of 61.23m but progressingas one of the top 12 finishers. “This willhopefully stimulate me to my best inthe final because I consider myself asan underdog,” the American said.

The opening heats of the women’s200m were cancelled because of thelow number of entrants and those en-tered will now go straight into the quar-ter-finals in the evening session laterWednesday.

Seeds Venus, Kuznetsova ousted in Canada

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Venus Williams of the United States, reactsduring her 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 loss to KaterynaBondarenko of the Ukraine during the RogersCup tennis tournament in Toronto on Tuesday,Aug. 18, 2009.

Australian Samantha Stosur defeated Russian sixth seedSvetlana Kuznetsova 6-4, 6-3. The Aussie will next faceeither France’s Virginie Razzano or Italy’s Flavia Pennetta.

Williams saw a silver lining in the loss, knowing she hadalmost two weeks to rest before the year’s final Grand Slamevent starts at Flushing Meadows.

“I have to take it as a positive,” Williams said. “Now it’llgive me a chance to rest. It has been a really busy summerfor me.”

Bondarenko, ranked 64th, will face either Hungary’sAgnes Szavay or Poland’s Agnieska Radwanska in the thirdround.

“It’s big because it was against Venus,” Bondarenko said.“I was playing really good. The first set, I didn’t know whatto do with her power. The rest of the time, I just tried to keepthe ball in play.”

Serbian standout Ana Ivanovic advanced to the secondround by rallying to defeat Slovakia’s MagdalenaRybarikova 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Ivanovic, the 21-year-old world number 11 still seekingher first WTA title of the year, made seven double faults butoutlasted her 47th-ranked rival.

“My movement, my shots, everything was working well,but I was trying to play a little too safe,” Ivanovic said.“She’s a good player and she was playing really aggressiveand dominant.”

Ivanovic’s next opponent will be Czech Lucie Safarova,who defeated Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi 6-4, 7-6 (7/3).

China’s Zheng Jie ousted Russia’s Elena Vesnina 6-3, 6-2, and could face Kim Cljisters, making a comeback aftertaking a two-year break to start a family, in a second-roundmatch.

Israel’s Shahar Peer took more than 2 1/2 hours but fi-nally advanced past Romania’s Monica Niculescu 6-4, 4-6,7-6 (7/4).

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sons for Detroit before beingtraded to the Bucks in June, ledthe Pistons with a 59.5 percentshooting accuracy rate while av-eraging 3.5 points and 3.7 re-bounds.

Weems played in 14 games asa rookie with Denver last season.

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TAIPEI - Taiwan’s politicalstorm surrounding TyphoonMorakot gained force Wednesdayas the defence minister and cabi-net secretary offered to resign overthe government’s slow emergencyresponse.

A new poll suggested 46 percentof people had no confidence in thegovernment’s ability to handle re-construction efforts as President MaYing-jeou’s approval rating droppedto a near record low of 29 percent.

The number of confirmed deadmeanwhile rose to 136, but Ma haswarned the death toll could climbto more than 500, with 380 peoplefeared buried by mudslides in thesouthern village of Hsiaolin alone.

Angry survivors surrounded thepresident during a visit Wednesdayto Hsiaolin. Ma burned incensesticks and bowed before a muddyplain that 12 days earlier was a tidyvillage.

“President, you’ve come way toolate,” a woman shouted at Ma infootage broadcast on cable news


COLOMBO - The Sri Lankangovernment plans to keep uprecord defence spending despiteits recent victory over Tamil rebelsthat ended nearly four decades offighting, a senior official said.

Defence secretary GotabhayaRajapakse said the military neededto be modernised and paymentsmade on hardware bought oncredit.

Sri Lanka raised its defencebudget to a record 1.6 billion dol-lars in 2009, and finally crushedthe Tamil Tigers separatists in Mayafter months of intense battles.

“I don’t see an immediate needto reduce the defence spending nextyear,” Rajapakse told AFP on thesidelines of a meeting on Tuesday.


SEOUL - South Korea Wednes-day postponed the launch of its firstspace rocket just eight minutes be-fore the scheduled blast-off, due toan unspecified technical fault.

Mission controllers suspendedthe launch at 4.52 pm (0752 GMT)and began dumping fuel, the scienceministry said. It was the seventhtime since 2002 that the project,operated in partnership with Russia,has been delayed.

The Korea Space Launch Ve-hicle-1, which was due to put a sat-ellite into orbit, was reattached tothe launch pad.

“There was a problem in the auto-matic launch sequence that caused the

Srilanka to maintain defencebudget despite rebel defeat

“We have cut down on our am-munition purchases. But we needto bring in new technology to up-grade our military capacity.”

Sri Lanka relied heavily onmortar bombs and ammunitionpurchased from China and Paki-stan during the ethnic conflict.

After routing the Tamil Tigers,the government scrapped a 200-million dollar ammunition orderfrom China.

Rajapakse added that nearly30,000 government forces werekilled and 10,000 disabled in thedecades of fighting, with 6,000killed in the last three months ofwarfare.

The Sri Lankan army intends torecruit tens of thousands of newtroops to be deployed in areas pre-viously under rebel control.

South Korea postpones rocketlaunch minutes before blast-off

launch to be called off,” said KoreaAerospace Research Institute headLee Joo-Jin, without giving details.

He told Yonhap news agency anew date would be set after consul-tation with experts from Russia,which manufactured the rocket’sfirst stage. A successful launchwould make South Korea the tenthcountry to put a satellite into orbitusing its own rocket.

Seoul has invested 502.5 billionwon (419 million dollars) and muchnational pride in the 33-metre (108-foot) rocket, whose second stagewas built by local engineers.

Seoul also built the 100-kilogram(220-pound) scientific research sat-ellite atop the rocket at the NaroSpace Centre at Goheung, 475

kilometres (300 miles) south ofSeoul.

North Korea, smarting over UNSecurity Council censure of its ownrocket launch in April, had said itwould watch closely to see whetherworld powers also refer the SouthKorean launch to the Council.

Pyongyang insists it was unfairlypunished for its April 5 launch, say-ing it merely put a peaceful com-munications satellite into orbit.

Washington and its allies say nosatellite was detected in orbit and theNorth’s launch was a disguised testof a Taepodong-2 missile.

Seoul has bristled at any compari-sons with its neighbour’s operation,insisting its own launch is purely forscientific purposes.

Taiwan minister resigns astyphoon political storm grows

channels.He tried to comfort a woman in a

traditional Taiwanese funeral robe,who was performing a Taoist ritualto summon the spirits of her relativeswhose bodies have yet to be found.

Defence Minister Chen Chao-min and Cabinet Secretary GeneralHsueh Hsiang-chuan, in charge ofcoordination between ministries, of-fered to step down, a cabinet officialsaid on condition of anonymity.

The first political casualty wasvice-foreign minister Andrew HsiaLi-yan, who tendered his resigna-tion on Tuesday — for refusingoverseas aid.

Premier Liu Chao-shiuan has re-ceived their resignations and wasconsidering them, the official said.

Lin Hou-wang, a Ma adviser andNational Taiwan University philoso-phy professor, said the prime minis-ter and others should also considerresigning.

“The cabinet needs an overall re-shuffle for letting the society down,”Lin told AFP.

The cabinet secretary faced per-sonal criticism after angrily justify-ing himself for dining with his fam-ily at a five-star hotel on August 8,the day Morakot struck, saying it wasFather’s Day in Taiwan and “not outof line”.

The defense ministry has beenunder fire for deploying too fewtroops during the initial rescue op-eration, with only 2,100 sent on Au-gust 9 before the number was dra-matically increased to 43,300 fivedays later. Ma and senior officialsbegan a news conference on Tues-day by bowing in a symbolic apol-ogy to the Taiwanese people for notrecognising the magnitude of thedisaster fast enough.

He promised an investigation intomistakes made after the typhoon andvowed to punish officials found tohave been negligent, once the probe’sresults are published next month.

Security forces fanned out on highalert in a bid to protect the capital froma spike in Taliban violence that hasunleashed two suicide attacks androcket strikes on the relatively peace-ful city just days before the vote.

The Taliban said Wednesday’s siegewas part of a series of attacks planned

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An Afghan policeman aims his weapon at photojournalists Paula Bronstein (2L) and Kevin Frayer (L) ashe prevents them from approaching the area where three gunmen stormed a bank in Kabul on August 19,2009. The Afghan government came under severe criticism for attempting to ban media coverage of esca-lating Taliban violence in case it deters people from voting in Thursday’s elections.

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KABUL - Fresh attacks hit Kabul as Taliban gunmen stormed abank building and fought pitched battles with police Wednesday onthe eve of Afghanistan’s second presidential election.

for the eve of elections after the insur-gent militia threatened to accelerate itsbid to derail the polls that bolster West-ern-backed moves to democracy.

Armed police forced their wayinto the bank after the building wasstormed by at least three gunmen.Loud bursts of gunfire echoed as

dozens of security forces and intel-ligence agents gathered outside, saidan AFP reporter.

“We have killed three of the at-tackers inside the bank,” Kabulcriminal investigation police chiefSayed Abdul Ghafar Sayedzada toldAFP. “They were Taliban,” he said.

The attack was likely to increasethe fears of Afghans about it beingsafe to go out to vote despite reas-surances from authorities and afterUS and allied forces have steppedup their anti-insurgency offensive.

The dancer, 11-year-old SoeurnNhanh, says he had a hopeless ex-istence as a shoeshine boy until hediscovered Cambodia’s first andonly breakdancing and hip hopschool.

“When I grow up, I want to be abreakdancing teacher and earnmoney to support myself and myfamily,” he says, grinning.

Established a few years ago by aformer US gang member deportedafter being convicted of armed rob-bery, the Tiny Toones centre alsoteaches disc jockey skills and rap-ping to nearly 400 children.

Besides helping bring hip hopculture to Cambodia, Tiny Toonesand its founder Tuy Sobil, betterknown as Kay Kay, have won acco-lades for helping drug addicts andpoor street kids transform their lives.

“Our [centre] doesn’t judge wherethe kids come from. It doesn’t mat-ter whether it’s the rich, poor, or or-phans, sex workers or drug kids...wejust make everybody equal here,”Kay Kay says.

“I’m happy to tell them that oneday they will get better,” he adds. Thecentre now also teaches English,Khmer and computers. Kay Kay, 32,brings lessons from his own life tothe job.

He is one of some 200 Cambodi-

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Cambodian hip hop trainer Tuy Sobil (L) trains a girl in hip hop dance at his club in Phnom Penh on June 12,2009. Established a few years ago by the former US gang member deported after being convicted of armedrobbery, the Tiny Toones centre also teaches disc jockey skills and rapping to nearly 400 children. Besideshelping bring hip hop culture to Cambodia, Tiny Toones and its founder Tuy Sobil, better known as Kay Kay,have won accolades for helping drug addicts and poor street kids transform their lives.

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PHNOM PENH - A slim boy with curly hair spins on his head to hiphop music at a house down a crowded and dusty road in the Cambo-dian capital.

ans ejected from the United Statesover the past several years under alaw which deports felons who do nothave American citizenship.

Kay Kay had never been back toCambodia, which he left as a babywhen his family emigrated to theUS.

His parents neglected to completeUS citizenship documents whenthey arrived in California and afterbeing jailed for armed robbery at 18he was deported, leaving his familyand young son behind.

“For Kay Kay, deportation is avery sensitive thing to talk about,”says Ho Lisa, Tiny Toones’ admin-istration director.

When he arrived in Cambodia,Kay Kay seemed to leave his old lifefar behind, working as a counsellorfor drug addicts. But in almost ev-ery way, Kay Kay is American.

He named his centre “TinyToones” for the classic US children’scartoon programmes, and althoughhis students mimic his baggy trou-sers and colourful over-sized t-shirts,he still draws attention aroundPhnom Penh.

“With tied-up long hair and aheavily-tattooed body, I get a badimpression from people. I mightlook like I’m very violent but I’mnot,” Kay Kay says.

Many Cambodians fear or find ithard to accept deportees like KayKay, who were initially expected tobring a crime wave with them to thecountry.

“Depending on their jobs, someof them (deportees) still facestigma,” says Ong Klung, head ofthe Returnee Integration SupportProgram. “Some find it hard to func-tion.”

Taing Phoeuk, director ofKorsang, an HIV educationorganisation which is staffed bymany deportees, says the vast ma-jority are not involved in any crimi-nal behaviour.

“Many work in non-governmen-tal organisations, companies or havegone to live with their familiesthroughout Cambodia. But a fewothers are still abusing drugs,” saysTaing Phoeuk, a deportee himself.

For his part, Kay Kay says hisstudents inspire him to live well, al-though there is also irony in the at-tention he has had from foundingTiny Toones.

When he gave a performance ata Clinton Global Initiative meetingin Hong Kong last year, Kay Kaydanced in front of former US presi-dent Bill Clinton — the man whopassed the law which banished him.

He also could not accompany hisstudents as they went on a perfor-mance tour of the US early this year.

Kay Kay says he is slowly beingaccepted into Cambodian societynow and hopes he will be completelywelcome someday.

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The roads leading to the plantwere lined with a heavy securitypresence. On one stretch, 75 to 100officers patrolled the streets as smallgroups of parents gathered. How-ever, when parents tried to talk tovisiting journalists about their con-cerns over health, the security offic-ers tried to break up the interviews.

At least 615 of 731 children intwo villages near the Dongling Leadand Zinc Smelting Co. plant inShaanxi province’s Changqing


CHERYOMUSHKY - “Why isthere so little information? There can’tjust be 12 dead!” screamed a voice.“Why has no-one else been found inthe last 20 hours?” shouted another.

Many loved ones of those stillmissing say they have yet to be toldthe whole truth by the authoritiesabout the accident this week atRussia’s biggest hydroelectricpower station.

Sixty-two employees of theSayano-Shushenskaya plant in south-ern Siberia are still missing, over twodays after a tragedy that is alreadyconfirmed to have killed 12 people.

But rescuers have insisted they havenot given up hope of finding them alivein the flooded wreckage of the turbinehall that was shattered after being en-gulfed by a flood of water.


KUALA LUMPUR - A Muslimmodel sentenced to six strokes of thecane for drinking beer will be the firstwoman in Malaysia to be caned un-der Islamic law, her lawyer saidWednesday.

Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32,was sentenced to a caning and a fineof 5,000 ringgit (1,414 dollars) lastmonth after she pleaded guilty todrinking alcohol at a hotel nightclubin the eastern state of Pahang last year.

The Malaysian mother of two,who lives in Singapore, told AFP thatshe was willing to receive the pun-ishment after the Sharia High Courtin Pahang on Tuesday issued a war-rant for her arrest.

“I received a message from my dadyesterday. So I come back to Perak(from Singapore),” she said.

“I accept the punishment. I amnot afraid because because I wasready to be punished from day one.They (authorities) hope to use mycase as a way to educate the Mus-lims. So go ahead. I want to move

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Children affected by lead poisoning from the Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Co. plant receive medicaltreatment at a hospital in Fengxiang county, West of Xi’an, China, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Dozens ofpolice and plainclothes officers guarded the Chinese smelting plant in central Shaanxi on Wednesday,days after hundreds of villagers stormed the factory because more than 600 children from two nearbyvillages had been sickened by lead poisoning.

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CHANGQING - Dozens of police and plainclothes officers guardeda Chinese smelting plant in central Shaanxi on Wednesday, days afterhundreds of villagers stormed the factory because more than 600 chil-dren from two nearby villages had been sickened by lead poisoning.

town have tested positive for leadpoisoning. Some had lead levels 10times the level China considers safe.

At the nearby Fengxiang CountyHospital, 80 children had been ad-mitted as of Wednesday for observa-tion and treatment of lead poisoning.

Zha Xiaofang, 41, fromMadaokou village, said her 8-year-old daughter has lead levels consid-ered mid- to high-level poisoning.Her daughter has had abdominalpain and memory problems for some

time.“We are anxious because we don’t

know what will happen next and wedon’t have any guarantees for thefuture,” she said, standing just out-side the children’s ward where herdaughter was being treated.

Children could be seen lying onhospital beds with their parents hov-ering nearby, many of them on IVdrips.

Police and plainclothes officersin the hospital followed journalistsaround and tried to prevent themfrom conducting interviews.

The other village affected isSunjianantou. Parents of a few hun-dred children were waiting for theresults of tests Tuesday for lead poi-soning in a third village, Luobosi.

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EL DORADO - A man accusedof killing a Kansas college studentwho led a secret life as an Internetpornography model pleaded notguilty to her murder Tuesday.

The attorney for Israel Mireles, 26,entered the plea after Judge DavidRicke ruled that prosecutors hadenough evidence to try him on chargesof capital murder, rape and aggravatedcriminal sodomy in the death of 18-year-old Emily Sander. The trial isscheduled to begin Nov. 2.

Ricke’s ruling followed adaylong preliminary hearing in But-ler County District Court in whichprosecutors laid out their case

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Relatives of people who died in an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station cry at a funeral in thenearby village of Maina on August 19, 2009.

Suspect ordered to trial in death of porn modelagainst Mireles, portraying a nightof underage drinking that endedwith Sander’s brutal slaying.

Kansas Attorney General SteveSix told the judge the capital mur-der charge was justified because thetestimony showed she was alivewhile she was being tortured, rapedand sodomized.

His defense attorney, MelanieFreeman-Johnson, probed details ofwitness testimony but offered nohint of her trial strategy and pre-sented no witnesses. She declinedto comment after the hearing.

Evidence presented by prosecu-tors included testimony from friendsand witnesses who said they sawSander leave a southeast Kansas bar

with the suspect the night of Nov. 23,2007. Her battered, nude body wasfound six days later off a highwayabout 50 miles (80 kilometers) away.

She died after being repeatedlystabbed, strangled and beaten, ac-cording to testimony.

Investigators recovered the knifethey believe was used in the crimefrom a trash bin in Baxter Springswhere Mireles picked up his preg-nant girlfriend before fleeing toMexico, according to testimony. Thetrash bin also contained blood-stained clothing, including a pair ofboxer shorts that had both her bloodand his semen, investigators said.His semen was also found on herbody, according to testimony.

Malaysian model acceptspunishment for drinking beer

on with my life.“I am not worried at all nor do I

want to avoid the punishment becauseI accept the punishment,” she added.

Kartika’s lawyer, Mohamad ZukiChe Muhamad Ghani, said his clientwould be jailed on August 24 for oneweek before the caning.

“The warrant of arrest was issuedto facilitate the caning,” he told AFP.

“She has to be jailed first and un-dergo health check-up to determinewhether she is fit to be caned. She willbe the first woman in the country to becaned under the religious laws,”Mohamad added. Kartika’s father,Shukarno Mutalib, told AFP that thefamily accepted the court’s decision.

“We are not feeling sad. We areMuslims and I agree she has to becaned. She has already pleaded guilty.We will follow the rules,” Shukarnosaid.Mohamad said Kartika had livedin Singapore for 15 years after marry-ing a citizen of the city state.

Malaysia, which has large Chineseand Indian minorities, has a dual-tracked legal system. Sharia courts cantry Muslims for religious offences.

At stricken Russian dam,relatives vent fury over missing

Dozens of relatives met with of-ficials from the emergencies minis-try at a nearby cultural centre, in anencounter marked by anger, frustra-tion and fears that there may nolonger be reason to hope.

“We don’t want secrets! If myson is dead then fine, tell me. I wentto the morgue last night and theywouldn’t tell me anything,” said aman who gave his name as Viktor.

“I know my husband is still alive.There is a cushion of air there wherehe could be. Why haven’t youdrained the water there?” demandedLena Petrovna, wife of one of themissing at the plant.

Alexander Kresan, head of theministry of emergency sitiuationssearch teams for Siberia, sought toexplain that all would be done foras long as there was a chance offinding anyone alive.

Theories about the prolificcomposer’s untimely death haveranged from poisoning to kidneyfailure to trichinosis, a parasitic dis-ease that comes from eating raw orundercooked pork.

But Richard Zegers of the Uni-versity of Amsterdam concluded thatthe legendary composer fell victimto a “minor epidemic” of strep throatinfection in Vienna, where Mozartdied in December 1791.

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BEIJING - French director Jean-Jacques Annaud on Tuesday unveiled hisplans to film the screen adaptation of the award-winning best-seller “WolfTotem” in China, his first project in the giant Asian nation.

Annaud, best known for films such as “Two Brothers”, “The Bear”,“The Lover” and “The Name of the Rose”, just returned from InnerMongolia and Mongolia proper, where he scouted film sites with the book’sauthor Jiang Rong.

“Wolf Totem”, which won the Asian equivalent of the Booker Prize in 2007,is a fictional account of life in the 1970s in the remote China-Mongolia borderregion, and the struggle between tradition and modernity.

“My interest in the relationship between humans and animals is magnifi-cently described by this book,” Annaud told reporters.

“It’s the story of a young man who discovers a civilisation — that has beenthe theme in many of my films.”

The novel has been a massive hit in China, with more than 2.6 millionofficial copies — and more than 17 million pirated copies — sold since 2004.The book has been translated into several foreign languages including En-glish. Jiang Rong is a pseudonym, as the author is a former Chinese politicalprisoner jailed for taking part in the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy protests.

Annaud said he was approached by a Chinese production house, BeijingForbidden City Corp, to work on the project. He has just begun writing thescript and said he hopes to begin filming in 2011. “It’s a difficult script to write,I’ll need at least six months,” he said.

The French filmmaker said he was looking forward to working in China,and said the criticism he received from authorities over “Seven Years in Tibet”,which offered a sympathetic portrayal of the Dalai Lama, was in the past.

“I told them right away that I had done that film, but they told me thatthe situation had changed, that mentalities had evolved, that it was in thepast,” he said.


LOS ANGELES - Hollywood leg-end Robert Redford has signed upto direct a historical drama about theassassination of US presidentAbraham Lincoln, The HollywoodReporter said Tuesday.

Lincoln, whose presidential ten-ure took place during the 1861-1865US civil war, emancipated slaves andwas mortally shot by a southern sym-pathizer in Washington as he waswatching a play just weeks after thefighting ended.

Redford’s “The Conspirator”plans to focus on the role of MarySurratt, a Washington tavern ownerwho sympathized with the Confed-eracy in the south and was allegedly


OTTAWA - Canadian singer Celine Dion, 41, is pregnant with hersecond child, her spokeswoman told AFP Tuesday.

Dion and her husband Rene Angelil, director of the French-languagereality-television show “Star Academie,” are “both very happy,” thespokeswoman added.

According to the French-language daily Le Journal de Montreal, whichwas first to report the story, the singer resorted to medical help to con-ceive. Dion, who is from Quebec, is expected to give birth in May 2010.

In March, Dion announced an 18-month career hiatus in order to spendtime with her family and have a second child.

Married almost 15 years, Dion currently has one son, Rene-Charles,born on January 25, 2001. He is to start his first day of school on Tues-day in Florida, Dion’s spokeswoman said.

Mozart may have diedMozart may have diedMozart may have diedMozart may have diedMozart may have diedfrom strep throat: studyfrom strep throat: studyfrom strep throat: studyfrom strep throat: studyfrom strep throat: studyAgence France Presse

WASHINGTON - A Dutch study published Tuesday concludes thatWolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose death at 35 has long been the sub-ject of speculation, may have been a victim of complications stem-ming from strep throat.

data from death records in the Aus-trian capital ranging between No-vember 1791 and January 1972.

According to his death certificate,Mozart died from “hitzigesFrieselfieber,” a kind of fever that isaccompanied by a rash. But the re-searchers said the diagnosis wasmore likely a description of symp-toms than of a disease.

Witness accounts also said Mozart,who composed more than 600 worksduring his short life, fell ill of an “in-flammatory fever,” which the studynoted was consistent with strep throat.

He eventually developed severeswelling, cramps, fever and a rash,also consistent with a strep throat in-fection leading to glomerulonephri-tis, an acute kidney inflammation.

The swelling was so severe, hissister-in-law Sophie Haibel recalledthree decades later, that Mozart couldnot turn in bed but was conscious andin sound mental condition until hisdying breath. Mozart may also havedied from scarlet fever, the research-ers said, while noting this was “a lesslikely possibility.” The illness wasshort-lived, lasting only two weeks.

The last months of his life werebrimming with productivity, and sawMozart complete the score of theopera “The Magic Flute,” conduct itspremiere, visit a spa town, composehis clarinet concerto and begin writ-ing his never completed “Requiem.”

France’s Annaud to direct‘Wolf Totem’ in China

French filmdirector Jean-Jacques Annaudsimulates thesound of wolfhowling as heholds a poster ofthe film “WolfTotem” at a pressconference inBeijing on August18, 2009. Annaudwill direct the filmversion of theChinese novel.AFP PHOTO/LIU Jin

Redford to direct Lincoln assassination filmlinked to the assassination plot.

The script was written by JamesSolomon, known for penning the TVseries “The Bronx is Burning,” whileactor James McAvoy is being con-sidered for one of the lead roles, theReporter said.

Surratt allegedly suppliedLincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth,and accomplice David Herold, withweapons. She was convicted andhanged for her role in the plot de-spite doubts over her guilt, the Re-porter said.

The status of two other moviesabout Lincoln — a biography to bedirected by Steven Spielberg, and astory on the chase for Lincoln’s kill-ers that was to star Harrison Ford —remains uncertain.

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Canadian singer Celine Dionpregnant with second child

(FILES) Photo dated May 22, 2008 shows Canadian singer CelineDion arriving at the Elysee Palace in Paris to be made Knight in the

order of The Legion of Honour by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. AFP PHOTO/FILES/Patrick HERTZOG

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SINGAPORE - Oil surged backnear 70 dollars in Asian trade Wednes-day on better retail sales in the UnitedStates and bargain-buying followingrecent price falls.

New York’s main futures contract,light sweet crude for delivery in Sep-tember, was up 79 cents to 69.98 dol-lars a barrel in morning trade.

Brent North Sea crude for Octo-ber delivery gained 44 cents to 72.81dollars.

Crude prices rallied as traders re-turned to the market following a slumpthat saw oil dip well below the psy-chological 70-dollar level, analystssaid.

“It’s the same old story,” saidTony Nunan, an energy risk managerat Mitsubishi Corp in Tokyo.

“When we have a large drop (inprices), it seems that people come inthe next day (and buy) based on the

AFP PHOTO/ROSLAN RAHMAN

This photo taken on August 18, 2009 shows a night scene of Singapore’s financial district. Asiais outpacing the United States and Europe in the rebound from the global economic slump,thanks to multi-billion dollar stimulus packages and robust demand from China, analysts said.

Asian economies outpace USAsian economies outpace USAsian economies outpace USAsian economies outpace USAsian economies outpace USand Europe on growth trackand Europe on growth trackand Europe on growth trackand Europe on growth trackand Europe on growth track

Second-quarter indicatorsshowed the region’s recession-hiteconomies such as Singapore andHong Kong have returned to thegrowth path despite sluggish de-mand from the US and Europeanmarkets, their main export desti-nations.

Countries with bigger domes-tic populations, including China,India, Indonesia, South Korea, thePhilippines and Vietnam, havebeen growing during the globaldownturn although the pace hasslowed.

Japan, the world’s secondlargest economy, lumbered out ofrecession in the second quarter andPrime Minister Taro Aso creditedthe government’s stimulus pack-age for the achievement.

In contrast, US gross domes-tic product was estimated to haveshrunk 1.0 percent in the secondquarter, and the eurozone economydipped a milder than expected 0.1percent after Germany and Franceemerged from recession.

US-based credit ratings firmStandard and Poor’s said that five


WASHINGTON - The global re-covery from recession depends on adelicate rebalancing of economies —notably between the United States andAsia — to sustain it, the chief IMFeconomist said.

“The recovery has started. Sus-taining it will require delicate rebal-ancing acts, both within and acrosscountries,” Olivier Blanchard said inan IMF article, released in advance ofpublication Wednesday.

Blanchard cautioned that predict-able models based on past recoveriesfrom recessions would not apply to theworst global slump since World WarII.

“The world is not in a run-of-themill recession. The turnaround will notbe simple. The crisis has left deepscars, which will affect both supplyand demand for many years to come,”he said.

In its latest economic forecasts,the IMF estimated in July a global con-traction of 1.4 percent in 2009, fol-lowed by sluggish growth of 2.5 per-cent in 2010.

The United States, the epicenterof the crisis, “is central to any worldrecovery,” Blanchard said in the ar-ticle titled “Sustaining a Global Re-covery.”

Blanchard said two rebalancingacts will have to come into play to sus-tain the global recovery: a switch frompublic to private spending and the re-balancing of international trade flows.

The latter would require “a shiftfrom domestic to foreign demand in


SINGAPORE - Asia is outpacing the United States and Europe in the rebound from theglobal economic slump, thanks to multi-billion dollar stimulus packages and robust demand fromChina, analysts said.

of the 14 Asia-Pacific economiesit covers will post positive growththis year, with nine expected to re-port contractions.

But by next year, all 14 shouldpost year-on-year growth, led byChina’s projected expansion of8.0-8.5 percent.

The US economy is forecastto contract by 2.9 percent this yearand grow 1.5 percent in 2010, itadded.

Asian economies were ham-mered after a crisis in the US hous-ing market sparked global finan-cial and economic turmoil late lastyear.

Some analysts said the impacton Asia showed that the region’sfortunes remain largely linked tothe West and that there would beno recovery until after the indus-trialized economies had re-bounded.

But the speed and strength ofthe region’s recovery showed it isnot entirely dependent on the USeconomy.

“The pattern we’re seeing isthat while the US remains a very

significant contributor to Asiangrowth, it has become less signifi-cant over time,” Subir Gokarn,Standard and Poor’s chief econo-mist for the Asia Pacific, said at arecent media briefing inSingapore.

Massive stimulus packagesrolled out by Asian governmentsto perk up domestic demandplayed an important role in help-ing the region weather the down-turn, Gokarn said.

The packages totaled morethan one trillion US dollars, ac-cording to a Standard and Poor’stally, led by China’s staggering 585billion dollars in spending.

“Asian governments cameinto the crisis with a strong fiscalposition and relatively low debtwhich allowed them to react rap-idly and aggressively,” Mark Wil-liams, an economist withconsultancy Capital Economics,told AFP.

Despite Asia’s rapid growth,the US economy will maintain itsglobal economic dominance, Wil-liams said.

Oil back near 70dollars in Asian trade

economic recovery story.” Nunan said better-than-expected

performances posted by major US re-tailers such as DIY firm Home DepotInc also helped boost prices as it wasseen as a sign of improving US con-sumer confidence.

Home Depot raised its forecast forfiscal 2009 after reporting a less-than-expected 7.2 percent decrease in earn-ings in the second quarter compared tothe same period last year.

The company said it expected earn-ings per share of between zero to sevenpercent over last year. It previously fore-cast a loss of between zero and sevenpercent.

However, Nunan warned that alarge crude stockpile in the UnitedStates will continue to weigh down onprices amid weak energy demand.

Consumption patterns in the UnitedStates can influence prices because theUS economy is the world’s biggest en-ergy user.

Global recovery requires US,Asia rebalancing

the United States and a reverse shiftfrom foreign to domestic demand in therest of the world, particularly in Asia,”he said.

Pointing to a decline in Americanhousehold consumption — which “rep-resents 70 percent of total US demand”— and a rise in the personal saving ratethat is expected to persist for some time,Blanchard estimated a 3.0 percentagepoint drop in the ratio of consumptionto US gross domestic product, a broadmeasure of economic output.

With the 3.0 percent drop unlikelyto be made up by increased investmentand the eventual phase-out of the mas-sive fiscal stimulus, “US net exportsmust increase” for the US recovery tooccur, he said.

Key to the rebalancing act will bean increase in foreign demand for USgoods, particularly in countries withlarge current account surpluses, nota-bly in China and other Asian countries.

“From the point of view of theUnited States, a decrease in China’s cur-rent account surplus would help in-crease demand, and sustain the US re-covery. That would result in more USimports, which would help sustainworld recovery,” the top economist atthe 186-nation institution said.

China may be willing to pursuethat “because it may well be in its owninterest,” said the economist, but otheremerging market Asian countries thatrun large current account surpluseshave weaker incentives than China toboost internal demand.

Blanchard said that Asia ap-peared the best-placed to tip the tradebalance.

Outbreak 1939, which opensThursday at the Imperial War Mu-seum in London, explores the build-up to Britain’s September 3 decla-ration of war on Germany and tellsthe stories of those involved at thetime.

The museum hopes the exhibitionwill resonate with the British pub-lic, now consumed with the mount-ing death toll of the war in Afghani-stan, which hit 200 on Saturday.

“There are lessons to be learned,”said James Taylor, the museum’shead of research. “What we try to getin this exhibition is the effect onpeople,” he told AFP.

“When we think of World War IIand the numbers of deaths, it’s veryeasy to see that as just a statistic.Like the men and women who aregiving their lives in Afghanistan to-day, these are people as well and it’svery often subsumed under hugenumbers.”

Among the items is prime minis-ter Neville Chamberlain’s pocket di-ary, which contains a simple entryfor September 3, 1939: “War de-clared”.

Also on show is a letter to his sis-ter Ida recounting the week.

“I have had some dreadful anxi-eties especially during one sleepless

British exhibition marks 70thBritish exhibition marks 70thBritish exhibition marks 70thBritish exhibition marks 70thBritish exhibition marks 70thanniversary of WWII outbreakanniversary of WWII outbreakanniversary of WWII outbreakanniversary of WWII outbreakanniversary of WWII outbreakAgence France-Presse

LONDON- The private fears of kings, prime ministers and frightened children are going on show in anew British exhibition marking the lives touched by the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II.

night,” he wrote.“Of course the difficulty is with

Hitler himself. Until he disappearsand his system collapses there canbe no peace”.

A copy of king George VI’s wardiary reveals his sombre thoughts.

“As 11 o’clock struck that fate-ful morning I had a certain feelingof relief that those 10 anxious daysof intensive negotiations with Ger-many over Poland, which at mo-ments looked favourable, withMussolini working for peace as well,were over,” he wrote.

“Hitler would not and could nothave drawn back from the edge ofthe abyss to which he has led us.”

With the weight of responsibilitynow on his shoulders, the shy kingrecalled being a simple 18-year-oldmidshipman onboard HMSCollingwood somewhere in theNorth Sea when World War I brokeout.

“Those of us who had beenthrough the Great War never wantedanother,” he wrote.

Queen Elizabeth II has lent theexhibition the navy uniform jackether father wore to make his 6:00pmbroadcast to the British empire onSeptember 3.

The exhibition also includes the

letters and possessions of evacuatedchildren, fleeing Poles who wit-nessed the invasion, young Jewishrefugees and others whose lives weresuddenly turned upside down.

Among those evacuated was theartist Sir Peter Blake, who designedthe famous cover of The Beatles’“Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts ClubBand” album.

Blake was seven when he was sentfrom his family in Dartford, on theedge of London, to the Essex coun-tryside. He said the evacuation wasa traumatic experience.

A letter to his mother, a tiny toytractor his father made for him and abelt he made with army badges on arein the exhibition.

“It was an enormous change,” hetold AFP.

“When war was declared there wasan enormous panic and we wereevacuated the next day.

“What was positive about it wasthat it introduced me to a rural life. Iworked on the farm about the age ofnine, riding on the big carthorses.

“At seven it’s partly a game butthere was a constant fear. Youthought the Germans would invadeat any moment so it was scary.”

The free exhibition runs until Sep-tember 5 next year.


SAN FRANCISCO - Five Facebook users are suing the socialnetwork for doing what made it an online superstar — letting mem-bers share aspects of their lives on the Web.

A lawsuit filed Monday in a southern California court accusesFacebook of being a data-mining operation that does not deliveron promises to give users strict control of data uploaded to profilepages.

Facebook has dismissed the lawsuit as being without merit andpromised a legal battle. The suit asks for unspecified cash damages.

One of the parties to the suit is a woman who joined Facebookin an early phase when membership was limited to the collegecrowd.

Then-Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg foundedFacebook in 2004 as a way for college friends to remain con-nected as their lives grew apart.

The suit accuses Facebook of betraying the woman by evolv-ing into an open social network that now claims more than 250million members worldwide.

Other plaintiffs named in the suit are identified as a photogra-pher and an actress who contend Facebook is wrongly sharingpictures posted on their profile pages.

The remaining plaintiffs are young boys that the suit chargesshould not have been permitted by Facebook to join or post im-ages or comments.

Facebook requires members to be ages 13 or older, but there isno viable tool to confirm ages of those creating accounts.

One plaintiff is an 11-year-old boy who joined Facebook andthen posted that he had swine flu and uploaded pictures or video of“partially-clothed” children swimming, according to the lawsuit.

Facebook has steadfastly maintained that its members own in-formation they post to profile pages and control who gets to see it.

Facebook has repeatedly revised its terms of service to appeaseprivacy concerns of users while allowing for the technical side ofrunning a social networking service.

Last month, Facebook announced it is testing a tiered level ofprivacy options including “all of your friends, your friends andpeople in your school or work networks, and friends of friends.”

There is also an option to publicly share with everyone on theWeb in what is being seen as an effort by Facebook to competewith the hot micro-blogging service Twitter.

Five users sue Facebook forbeing too social a network

AFP PHOTO/SHAUN CURRY

Historical material and personal memorabilia are displayed during the press view of the exhibition ‘Out-break 1939’ at the Imperial War Museum in south London, on August 18, 2009. Seventy years after theannouncement that signified the start of the Second World War the exhibition explores how being a nationat war shaped the lives of ordinary men and women as well as those who were actively involved in thepolitical negotiations and their aftermath. The exhibition runs from August 20, 2009 to September 6, 2010.

He said some oil had been spilt and that dozens of maritime of-ficials and a total of 11 boats and two helicopters were battling theblaze. “The missing nine crew members are Chinese. There is someoil spill,” he said.

Osman said the burning tanker was not a threat to other ships inthe Strait and was not disrupting traffic. Accidents are rare in thenarrow Malacca Strait, a vital artery for world trade.

Rizal said a search was under way off the coast of Port Dickson,in Negeri Sembilan, south of Kuala Lumpur, for the missing crewmembers.

“The bulk carrier slammed into the left side of the Taiwanesetanker that was coming from United Arab Emirates,” he said. Mari-time officials said the bulk carrier was flying the Isle of Man flag.

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said ina statement that the bulk carrier MV Ostende Max did not sufferserious damage and had been ordered to berth near Port Dicksonfor investigations.

Rizal said the 16 crew members rescued had been admitted tohospital in Port Dickson.

At least 94,000 ships sail the narrow strait each year, of which20 percent are Japanese vessels, most of them large crude oil carri-ers.

Last month a Japanese foundation warned of potential dangersin the Strait and urged ship owners to contribute to the MalaccaStrait navigation safety fund to help maintain buoys and other navi-gational aids.

“There is a potential for an accident to happen. If it involvescrude oil tankers, there will be a major oil spill. This could disruptinternational trade,” Nippon Foundation chairman Yohei Sasakawatold AFP.

The Malacca Strait, one of the busiest waterways in the world, isvital to Japan’s national interests as more than 80 percent of its oilpasses through it.

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The carrier, which also recordedits first half-year loss in six years,blamed the worse-than-expectedresult on weaker domestic and in-ternational demand for travel dur-ing the global financial crisis.

In response, the airline vowed toslash 1.24 billion US dollars of ex-penditure over the next three yearsin a bid to boost its ailing bottomline, but was unable to say whetherit would remain profitable over thenext year.


JAKARTA - Twenty-five peoplewere killed when a truck packedwith plantation workers and theirfamilies overturned in Indonesia,police said Wednesday.

The truck was carrying about 60people when it flipped after swerv-

Australia’s Qantas profitsAustralia’s Qantas profitsAustralia’s Qantas profitsAustralia’s Qantas profitsAustralia’s Qantas profitsnosedive 88 percentnosedive 88 percentnosedive 88 percentnosedive 88 percentnosedive 88 percent


SYDNEY - Australian flag-carrier Qantas on Wednesday posted an88 percent drop in annual net profit to 96.6 million US dollars andunveiled a massive cost-cutting plan to counter the financial beating.

“There has never been a more vola-tile and challenging time for theworld’s aviation industry,” Qantaschief executive Alan Joyce said.

Qantas posted a net profit after taxof 117 million Australian dollars (96.6million US) for the year to June 30,down 88 percent from 969 million ayear earlier. It lost 93 million dollarsin the six months to June.

The airline’s profit before taxdropped 87 percent to 181 millionAustralian dollars (149.5 million US)

from 1.41 billion a year earlierInvestors reacted positively de-

spite the poor headline figure, withQantas shares closing up 3.5 percentat 2.69 dollars on a Sydney marketthat fell 0.18 percent overall.

“While on the face of it an 88percent decline in profits soundsterrible, Qantas is profitable whichis more than a lot of airlines cansay,” IG markets analyst CameronPeacock said.

“With a view that the industry’smost challenging times are behindit, Qantas is well leveraged to a re-bound in economic activity.”

Joyce said the financial year fellinto two contrasting halves — thefirst showing a generally favourable

operating environment and strongdemand but the second marred bylower passenger numbers and capac-ity cuts.

The airline said weakening de-mand for travel led to a 4.3 percentdecline in yield and a 1.1 percentdrop in passenger load, or seatsfilled, to 79.6 percent, forcing thegroup to cut capacity by 1.9 percent.

The effects of the economic cri-sis were compounded by protractedindustrial action by Qantas engi-neers, the swine flu epidemic andcosts associated with the firm’s in-troduction of new Airbus A380superjumbo aircraft.

The airline said it would cut costsby 1.5 billion Australian dollars over

the next three years, starting with atarget of 500 million dollars in theyear to June 2010.

The cost-slashing exercise,dubbed “Q Future,” will target inef-ficiencies in sales, fuel conservation,aircraft use, scheduling and procure-ment, Joyce said.

“We are also keeping a closewatch on oil and fuel prices,” he said,adding they were volatile and tend-ing to rise.

The airline said that while pas-senger volumes appeared to haveimproved and yields had stabilizedat the same level as in the first halfof 2009, the economy remained veryvolatile, making it difficult to fore-see future results.

Police spokesman NananSoekarna said the man, identifiedonly as Ali, had been arrested re-cently as part of the investigationinto who funded the July 17 attackson the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carltonhotels that killed nine people.

Another man identified only asIwan also had been detained forquestioning over his suspected linksto the network of Malaysian Islam-ist extremist Noordin MohammedTop, the alleged mastermind of theattack.

“Ali and Iwan are still being ques-tioned by our team to prove their linkswith another country and with the fi-nancing,” Soekarna told reporters.

“Ali is believed to be a Saudi Ara-bian national.”

Analysts have said that if thefunding for the attacks came fromabroad, a likely source would be Al-Qaeda. But police have not con-firmed any connection between thehotel blasts and Saudi-born Osamabin Laden’s organisation.

Al-Qaeda has allegedly financedprevious suicide attacks in Indone-sia including the 2002 Bali bomb-ings that killed 202 people, andNoordin’s first major operation, a


JAKARTA - Indonesia’s death toll from swine fluhas risen to four, the health ministry said Tuesday.

“A boy aged below five years has been confirmedas the latest fatality from swine flu. He died severaldays ago from severe pneumonia,” director general

Antara

JAKARTA - The government plans to allocatefunds totaling Rp309.8 trillion for the regions in 2010to sustain the implementation of fiscal decentraliza-tion. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made thestatement in his state-of-the-nation address on na-tional development in a regional perspective at a spe-cial plenary session of the Regional RepresentativesCouncil DPD) here on Wednesday.

“Of the total amount of funds to be transferred tothe regions, the equalization funds are envisaged toreach Rp293.0 trillion or an increase by Rp7.7 tril-lion, compared to the projected realization in 2009,”the president said.

He added the budget was planned to be allocatedin the form of Shared Funds (DBH) totaling Rp76.6trillion, General Allocation Funds (DAU) to the tuneof Rp195.8 trillion, and Special Allocation Funds(DAK) amounting to Rp20.6 trillion.

The president also said Special Autonomy Funds(Otsus) allocated for the Provinces of Aceh, Papuaand West Papua, were projected to reach Rp8.9 tril-lion.

AFP PHOTO/ROMEO GACAD

Armed Indonesian soldiers from the nuclear, biological and chemi-cal warfare unit undergo decontamination during a military exer-cise at the office of the Jakarta city mayor on August 19, 2009. Aman believed to be from Saudi Arabia has been arrested on suspi-cion of smuggling money used to finance the July 17 suicide bombattacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in the capitalthat killed nine people, Indonesian police said.

AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO

Indonesian Police spokesman Nanan Soekarna (R) shows wanted leftlets of (pictured L to R) Ario Sudarso,Mohamad Syahrir, Bagus Budi Pranoto and Syaifudin Zuhri during a press conference in Jakarta on Au-gust 19, 2009 who are wanted for their possible involvement in the July 17 suicide attacks on the JWMarriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels. Two suicide bombers believed to be part of Islamist fanatic NoordinMohammed Top’s network killed seven people, mostly foreigners, at the two hotels in downtown Jakarta onJuly 17, the first attack of its kind in Indonesia since 2005.

Indonesia probes Saudi cash link to hotels attackIndonesia probes Saudi cash link to hotels attackIndonesia probes Saudi cash link to hotels attackIndonesia probes Saudi cash link to hotels attackIndonesia probes Saudi cash link to hotels attackAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - A man believed to be from Saudi Arabia has been ar-rested on suspicion of smuggling money used to finance last month’sdeadly Jakarta hotel attacks, Indonesian police said Wednesday.

2003 truck bombing of the JakartaMarriott that killed 12.

Noordin, 41, leads a splintergroup of the Jemaah Islamiyah ter-ror network, which aims to create aregional Islamic caliphate.

He is Indonesia’s most-wantedman and is blamed for a series ofattacks against Westerners in themainly Muslim country that havekilled around 50 people andwounded hundreds.

He has previously called himselfthe leader of “Al-Qaeda in the MalayArchipelago” but it is unclearwhether there is any ongoing, directcontact between his group and Al-Qaeda.

“The question is whether he onlyimitates it or whether he has somestructural affiliation,” InternationalCrisis Group expert Sidney Jonessaid in a report last week.

DNA tests showed that a suspectkilled in an August 8 raid on a mili-tant hideout was not Noordin as ini-tially reported, police said last week.

Police also named four suspectedsenior members of Noordin’s net-work who are being hunted over theJuly 17 attacks, including one whowas arrested in 2004 and released.

President: Government to allocateRp309.8 trillion for regions in 2010

Indonesia reports fourth swine flu deathfor disease control Tjandra Yoga Aditama told AFP.

Indonesia had recorded 872 confirmed cases of theA(H1N1) influenza virus, which has killed over 1,000people around the world since it was first detected inApril in Mexico. The first cases appeared in Indone-sia in June after a British tourist and an Indonesianpilot tested positive.

Truck crash kills 25 in Indonesiaing to avoid a damaged stretch ofroad near Sampit, CentralKalimantan province, on Tuesdaynight, traffic police official Anwartold AFP.

“The people were on their wayhome from a shopping trip at a nearbymarket. The truck could only carry20 to 30 people at most,” he said.

“I hope that the Special Autonomy Funds can bespent optimally, in order to extricate the regions con-cerned from their disadvantaged position in provid-ing services in health, education and infrastructure.However, I also request that a more effective moni-toring of the use of Otsus Funds is applied,” the presi-dent said.

The head of state said starting in 2010 changeswould be made to the allotment of Shared Funds(DBH) from Excises on Tobacco Products, by includ-ing regions producing excises on tobacco and thoseproducing tobacco.

Moreover, the president said, the governmentwould also allocate Geothermal DBH funds as partof the Natural Resources Shared Funds (DBH SDA).

From the experience during the last four years, thepresident said prices of oil and gas, as well as coal,were expected to undergo persistent fluctuations, re-sulting in frequent changes in state revenue from thenatural resource sector.

“I should remind the regions relying on DBH SDAfunds, to improve their anticipative ability as well asto manage the fluctuating prices of natural resourcesand the region’s revenue,” the president said.

Balinese CultureThursday, August 20, 2009 98 InternationalThursday, August 20, 2009

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Ujung Water Palace, which is called Taman

Soekasada Ujung by the local people, was built in 1919.

However, the launching of this water palace complex

was performed in 1912. The late King of Karangasem, I

Gusti Bagus Jelantik who reigned in Karangasem

between 1909 and 1945, constructed the water palace.

Ujung Water Palace was majestically built to welcome

and to serve important guests and Kings from

neighboring countries, and for the pleasure of the King

and his royal family.

Taman Soekasada Ujung lies at Tumbu village,

Karangasem district. It is approximately 85 km from

Ngurah Rai Airport, Denpasar and 5 km from Amlapura.

Taman Soekasada Ujung has been announced as a

cultural tourist object for it is noted as one of several

cultural heritages existing in Karangasem regency. The

complex of this water palace is the combination of

Balinese and European architectures. There are 3 large

ponds inside the area. In the middle of the main pond,

there is a building that is connected to the edge of the

pond by 2 bridges.

On the highest level of this complex, there is a great

statue of ‘warak’ (rhinoceros). Beneath the warak there

is a Bull statue. From this high place a marvelous view

of sea, hills with lush and green forest, the beauty of

Mount Agung combined with the green terraced rice

fields can be seen. The grand Ujung Water Palace was

damaged by the explosion of Mount Agung in 1963 and

suffered further destruction during the great earthquake

in 1979. However, a reconstruction and revitalization

project was performed for the recovery in an effort to

bring back the glory of this water palace complex.

Although it is not as great as it was, the amazing views

of its past can still be seen here. (BTN)

Currently, the tourism business inBali is still stable as well as the ho-tel occupancy rate. “The world trustin Bali is still very high. It is provenby holding several internationalevents such as the International Con-gress on AIDS in Asia and the Pa-cific (ICAAP) which was held inNusa Dua on August 9th throughAugust 13th 2009,” he added.

The safety condition is pre-served by police, the army, and alsothe citizen of Bali. The high safetylevel is needed in order to attractmore tourists visited Bali. Currently,the number of tourists visited Baliis higher than in Jakarta.

The bomb blasts in Jakarta onJuly 17th 2009 which happened inRitz-Carlton and JW Marriott Ho-tels affected the number of touristsstayed in hotels throughout Jakarta.The tourists visited Jakarta de-

Antara

DENPASAR – Bali gained $179.5 million from for-eign trade during January through May 2009 period. RonaldL Toruan, the middle economics researcher in IndonesianBank, said that the number of exports on those period was$228.1 million while the import only $48.6 million.

Most of the exports were non-oil and gas products suchas handicrafts. Bali mostly imported the raw materials forsmall industries which will be produced into other productsfor exports purpose. The import products were fabrics, yarn,and also machineries. Sugar which usually imported by Baliwas not needed this year.

In addition to handicraft, the export products were ma-rine products, garments, and farming products such as cof-fee and clove. Bali’s handicraft products had entered 79 coun-tries throughout the world which mostly sent to USA, Eu-rope and other Asian countries.

Based on the data by Indonesian Bank, the numbers ofBali’s exports keep increasing every year. In 2004, the num-ber export was $375 million and increasing became $417million in 2005. The number of exports in 2006 was $509million while in 2007 became $552 million. The number in-creasing in 2008 and became $ 572 million. There is greathope that the number of exports will keep increasing.

Antara

DENPASAR - Of the 1,070,595 foreign touristsarriving in Bali in the first semester of 2009, only3,329 or 1.31 percent entered through the seaport, aregional statistics official said.

Head of Bali’s Statistics Office (BPS) IdaKomang Wisnu said that about 98.69 percent or1,067,266 foreign tourists arrived in Bali throughBali’s Ngurah Rai international airport.

They flew directly from their countries to Bali,he said.

Most of those arriving in Bali with excursionswere Australians (806), followed by those comingfrom the United States (409), Britain (86), Germany(14), France (12), Japan (8) and China (1).

Antara

NUSA DUA - Heroes in oursociety are regarded with our ut-most admiration. They are thosewho persevere to achieve thingsagainst all odds and we praisethem for their selflessness, cour-age, high spirits, and persever-ance.

Who could better representthese qualities than Hee Ah Lee,the Four Fingered Pianist? Hee AhLee was born on July 9th, 1985,in Seoul, South Korea, and he wasborn with severe disabilities, in-cluding only two fingers on eachhand, no legs below his kneecaps,and mild brain damage.

When she was seven, hermother started her on the piano totrain her hands, which at that timecouldn’t even hold a pencil.“However, as time went by, thepiano became my source of inspi-ration and my best friend,” sherecalls.

Soon she diligently prac-ticed piano for hours at a time try-ing really hard to improve. For ex-ample, she worked on one passagefrom Chopin’s Fantasia Im-promptu for five years. She

Taman Soekasada Ujung

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DENPASAR – Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants Association(PHRI) stated that the hotels in Bali must keep alert on the act ofterrorism. Perry Markus, the secretary of PHRI Bali, said “ho-tels owners and managers should keep in high alert in order toprevent any terrorists act from happening in Bali.”

creased since the incident. Markus said “there is great hope

that the condition can be maintained andit must be supported by a good securitypattern.” Several hotels in Bali had in-creased their safety level by placinghigh tech security tools such as CCTV.

Two policemen with K-9 dogdoing simulation act in front of

hundreds of elementary stu-dents on Wednesday, August

19. Indonesian Hotels andRestaurants Association

(PHRI) stated that the hotels inBali must keep alert on the actof terrorism. Perry Markus, the

secretary of PHRI Bali, said“hotels owners and managers

should keep in high alert inorder to prevent any terrorists

act from happening in Bali.” FOTO ANTARA/Nyoman Budhiana

Bali gained $179million throughforeign trade

Only few foreigntourists enter Balithrough seaport

A little foreign tourist and an Indonesiangirl hold sea turtle babies before releasingthem to the sea as part of IndependenceDay celebrations on Kuta beach, Bali,Indonesia, Monday, Aug. 17, 2009. Of the1,070,595 foreign tourists arriving in Bali inthe first semester of 2009, only 3,329 or1.31 percent entered through the seaport, aregional statistics official said.AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

Hee Ah Lee, with four fingersentertains the world (1)

wanted to quit many times but fi-nally succeeded.

“The piano has provided mewith many benefits which are con-solation; courage, gratitude, andcompassion are just a few. It hasalso given me the added opportu-nity to meet many friends world-wide,” Hee told a journalist once.

And now, in her effort toraising fund for The Check Out forChildren Programme, Hee Ah Leehas enchanted people at TheWestin with her very special per-formances in playing the piano andsinging.

Hee, a 24 woman pianistfrom South Korea, who was bornwith some physical deformitiessuch as only two fingers on eachhand and legs ended at her knees,played 10 piano compositions, inNusa Dua Hall, Bali InternationalConvention Centre, Nusa Dua,Bali, last Thursday night.

The concert’s theme was“Dream the Impossible Dream” toinspire all people with physical de-formities like Hee, who can makesuch monumental creation andmoves like her. The “Dream theImpossible Dream”, also like theold song sang by Matt Monroe in

the sixties, that Hee sang at the endof the concert.

She was very shy at first inthe presence of two thousand spec-tators. But the situation immedi-ately changed gradually as soon asshe put all her four fingers on herspecially designed piano.

“It’s very inspiring andtouching,” says a foreign spectator,Ike Christensen, from Denmark,who came with her husband andtwo kids. She, like the others, en-joyed Hee’s performances fromsecond to second and likely didn’tbelieve that a woman with physi-cal deformities like Hee could playthe piano so lovely.

Her mother, who also accom-panied her on the special occasionon the stage, said, that Hee wasborn with the Down syndrome andsome physical deformities. “I wasvery surprised seeing my littlebaby like that. The doctors at firstthought that she will not survivebecause she was born very weak,”said her.

Seeing the mother and daugh-ter on the stage, merely like to hearand experience the story of a motherand daughter who have overcomethe odds from the very beginning.

Balinese CultureThursday, August 20, 2009 98 InternationalThursday, August 20, 2009

Bali Today

Ujung Water Palace, which is called Taman

Soekasada Ujung by the local people, was built in 1919.

However, the launching of this water palace complex

was performed in 1912. The late King of Karangasem, I

Gusti Bagus Jelantik who reigned in Karangasem

between 1909 and 1945, constructed the water palace.

Ujung Water Palace was majestically built to welcome

and to serve important guests and Kings from

neighboring countries, and for the pleasure of the King

and his royal family.

Taman Soekasada Ujung lies at Tumbu village,

Karangasem district. It is approximately 85 km from

Ngurah Rai Airport, Denpasar and 5 km from Amlapura.

Taman Soekasada Ujung has been announced as a

cultural tourist object for it is noted as one of several

cultural heritages existing in Karangasem regency. The

complex of this water palace is the combination of

Balinese and European architectures. There are 3 large

ponds inside the area. In the middle of the main pond,

there is a building that is connected to the edge of the

pond by 2 bridges.

On the highest level of this complex, there is a great

statue of ‘warak’ (rhinoceros). Beneath the warak there

is a Bull statue. From this high place a marvelous view

of sea, hills with lush and green forest, the beauty of

Mount Agung combined with the green terraced rice

fields can be seen. The grand Ujung Water Palace was

damaged by the explosion of Mount Agung in 1963 and

suffered further destruction during the great earthquake

in 1979. However, a reconstruction and revitalization

project was performed for the recovery in an effort to

bring back the glory of this water palace complex.

Although it is not as great as it was, the amazing views

of its past can still be seen here. (BTN)

Currently, the tourism business inBali is still stable as well as the ho-tel occupancy rate. “The world trustin Bali is still very high. It is provenby holding several internationalevents such as the International Con-gress on AIDS in Asia and the Pa-cific (ICAAP) which was held inNusa Dua on August 9th throughAugust 13th 2009,” he added.

The safety condition is pre-served by police, the army, and alsothe citizen of Bali. The high safetylevel is needed in order to attractmore tourists visited Bali. Currently,the number of tourists visited Baliis higher than in Jakarta.

The bomb blasts in Jakarta onJuly 17th 2009 which happened inRitz-Carlton and JW Marriott Ho-tels affected the number of touristsstayed in hotels throughout Jakarta.The tourists visited Jakarta de-

Antara

DENPASAR – Bali gained $179.5 million from for-eign trade during January through May 2009 period. RonaldL Toruan, the middle economics researcher in IndonesianBank, said that the number of exports on those period was$228.1 million while the import only $48.6 million.

Most of the exports were non-oil and gas products suchas handicrafts. Bali mostly imported the raw materials forsmall industries which will be produced into other productsfor exports purpose. The import products were fabrics, yarn,and also machineries. Sugar which usually imported by Baliwas not needed this year.

In addition to handicraft, the export products were ma-rine products, garments, and farming products such as cof-fee and clove. Bali’s handicraft products had entered 79 coun-tries throughout the world which mostly sent to USA, Eu-rope and other Asian countries.

Based on the data by Indonesian Bank, the numbers ofBali’s exports keep increasing every year. In 2004, the num-ber export was $375 million and increasing became $417million in 2005. The number of exports in 2006 was $509million while in 2007 became $552 million. The number in-creasing in 2008 and became $ 572 million. There is greathope that the number of exports will keep increasing.

Antara

DENPASAR - Of the 1,070,595 foreign touristsarriving in Bali in the first semester of 2009, only3,329 or 1.31 percent entered through the seaport, aregional statistics official said.

Head of Bali’s Statistics Office (BPS) IdaKomang Wisnu said that about 98.69 percent or1,067,266 foreign tourists arrived in Bali throughBali’s Ngurah Rai international airport.

They flew directly from their countries to Bali,he said.

Most of those arriving in Bali with excursionswere Australians (806), followed by those comingfrom the United States (409), Britain (86), Germany(14), France (12), Japan (8) and China (1).

Antara

NUSA DUA - Heroes in oursociety are regarded with our ut-most admiration. They are thosewho persevere to achieve thingsagainst all odds and we praisethem for their selflessness, cour-age, high spirits, and persever-ance.

Who could better representthese qualities than Hee Ah Lee,the Four Fingered Pianist? Hee AhLee was born on July 9th, 1985,in Seoul, South Korea, and he wasborn with severe disabilities, in-cluding only two fingers on eachhand, no legs below his kneecaps,and mild brain damage.

When she was seven, hermother started her on the piano totrain her hands, which at that timecouldn’t even hold a pencil.“However, as time went by, thepiano became my source of inspi-ration and my best friend,” sherecalls.

Soon she diligently prac-ticed piano for hours at a time try-ing really hard to improve. For ex-ample, she worked on one passagefrom Chopin’s Fantasia Im-promptu for five years. She

Taman Soekasada Ujung

Hotels Association: hotels managementsHotels Association: hotels managementsHotels Association: hotels managementsHotels Association: hotels managementsHotels Association: hotels managementsmust be aware of terrorism actmust be aware of terrorism actmust be aware of terrorism actmust be aware of terrorism actmust be aware of terrorism actAntara

DENPASAR – Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants Association(PHRI) stated that the hotels in Bali must keep alert on the act ofterrorism. Perry Markus, the secretary of PHRI Bali, said “ho-tels owners and managers should keep in high alert in order toprevent any terrorists act from happening in Bali.”

creased since the incident. Markus said “there is great hope

that the condition can be maintained andit must be supported by a good securitypattern.” Several hotels in Bali had in-creased their safety level by placinghigh tech security tools such as CCTV.

Two policemen with K-9 dogdoing simulation act in front of

hundreds of elementary stu-dents on Wednesday, August

19. Indonesian Hotels andRestaurants Association

(PHRI) stated that the hotels inBali must keep alert on the actof terrorism. Perry Markus, the

secretary of PHRI Bali, said“hotels owners and managers

should keep in high alert inorder to prevent any terrorists

act from happening in Bali.” FOTO ANTARA/Nyoman Budhiana

Bali gained $179million throughforeign trade

Only few foreigntourists enter Balithrough seaport

A little foreign tourist and an Indonesiangirl hold sea turtle babies before releasingthem to the sea as part of IndependenceDay celebrations on Kuta beach, Bali,Indonesia, Monday, Aug. 17, 2009. Of the1,070,595 foreign tourists arriving in Bali inthe first semester of 2009, only 3,329 or1.31 percent entered through the seaport, aregional statistics official said.AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

Hee Ah Lee, with four fingersentertains the world (1)

wanted to quit many times but fi-nally succeeded.

“The piano has provided mewith many benefits which are con-solation; courage, gratitude, andcompassion are just a few. It hasalso given me the added opportu-nity to meet many friends world-wide,” Hee told a journalist once.

And now, in her effort toraising fund for The Check Out forChildren Programme, Hee Ah Leehas enchanted people at TheWestin with her very special per-formances in playing the piano andsinging.

Hee, a 24 woman pianistfrom South Korea, who was bornwith some physical deformitiessuch as only two fingers on eachhand and legs ended at her knees,played 10 piano compositions, inNusa Dua Hall, Bali InternationalConvention Centre, Nusa Dua,Bali, last Thursday night.

The concert’s theme was“Dream the Impossible Dream” toinspire all people with physical de-formities like Hee, who can makesuch monumental creation andmoves like her. The “Dream theImpossible Dream”, also like theold song sang by Matt Monroe in

the sixties, that Hee sang at the endof the concert.

She was very shy at first inthe presence of two thousand spec-tators. But the situation immedi-ately changed gradually as soon asshe put all her four fingers on herspecially designed piano.

“It’s very inspiring andtouching,” says a foreign spectator,Ike Christensen, from Denmark,who came with her husband andtwo kids. She, like the others, en-joyed Hee’s performances fromsecond to second and likely didn’tbelieve that a woman with physi-cal deformities like Hee could playthe piano so lovely.

Her mother, who also accom-panied her on the special occasionon the stage, said, that Hee wasborn with the Down syndrome andsome physical deformities. “I wasvery surprised seeing my littlebaby like that. The doctors at firstthought that she will not survivebecause she was born very weak,”said her.

Seeing the mother and daugh-ter on the stage, merely like to hearand experience the story of a motherand daughter who have overcomethe odds from the very beginning.

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The carrier, which also recordedits first half-year loss in six years,blamed the worse-than-expectedresult on weaker domestic and in-ternational demand for travel dur-ing the global financial crisis.

In response, the airline vowed toslash 1.24 billion US dollars of ex-penditure over the next three yearsin a bid to boost its ailing bottomline, but was unable to say whetherit would remain profitable over thenext year.


JAKARTA - Twenty-five peoplewere killed when a truck packedwith plantation workers and theirfamilies overturned in Indonesia,police said Wednesday.

The truck was carrying about 60people when it flipped after swerv-

Australia’s Qantas profitsAustralia’s Qantas profitsAustralia’s Qantas profitsAustralia’s Qantas profitsAustralia’s Qantas profitsnosedive 88 percentnosedive 88 percentnosedive 88 percentnosedive 88 percentnosedive 88 percent


SYDNEY - Australian flag-carrier Qantas on Wednesday posted an88 percent drop in annual net profit to 96.6 million US dollars andunveiled a massive cost-cutting plan to counter the financial beating.

“There has never been a more vola-tile and challenging time for theworld’s aviation industry,” Qantaschief executive Alan Joyce said.

Qantas posted a net profit after taxof 117 million Australian dollars (96.6million US) for the year to June 30,down 88 percent from 969 million ayear earlier. It lost 93 million dollarsin the six months to June.

The airline’s profit before taxdropped 87 percent to 181 millionAustralian dollars (149.5 million US)

from 1.41 billion a year earlierInvestors reacted positively de-

spite the poor headline figure, withQantas shares closing up 3.5 percentat 2.69 dollars on a Sydney marketthat fell 0.18 percent overall.

“While on the face of it an 88percent decline in profits soundsterrible, Qantas is profitable whichis more than a lot of airlines cansay,” IG markets analyst CameronPeacock said.

“With a view that the industry’smost challenging times are behindit, Qantas is well leveraged to a re-bound in economic activity.”

Joyce said the financial year fellinto two contrasting halves — thefirst showing a generally favourable

operating environment and strongdemand but the second marred bylower passenger numbers and capac-ity cuts.

The airline said weakening de-mand for travel led to a 4.3 percentdecline in yield and a 1.1 percentdrop in passenger load, or seatsfilled, to 79.6 percent, forcing thegroup to cut capacity by 1.9 percent.

The effects of the economic cri-sis were compounded by protractedindustrial action by Qantas engi-neers, the swine flu epidemic andcosts associated with the firm’s in-troduction of new Airbus A380superjumbo aircraft.

The airline said it would cut costsby 1.5 billion Australian dollars over

the next three years, starting with atarget of 500 million dollars in theyear to June 2010.

The cost-slashing exercise,dubbed “Q Future,” will target inef-ficiencies in sales, fuel conservation,aircraft use, scheduling and procure-ment, Joyce said.

“We are also keeping a closewatch on oil and fuel prices,” he said,adding they were volatile and tend-ing to rise.

The airline said that while pas-senger volumes appeared to haveimproved and yields had stabilizedat the same level as in the first halfof 2009, the economy remained veryvolatile, making it difficult to fore-see future results.

Police spokesman NananSoekarna said the man, identifiedonly as Ali, had been arrested re-cently as part of the investigationinto who funded the July 17 attackson the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carltonhotels that killed nine people.

Another man identified only asIwan also had been detained forquestioning over his suspected linksto the network of Malaysian Islam-ist extremist Noordin MohammedTop, the alleged mastermind of theattack.

“Ali and Iwan are still being ques-tioned by our team to prove their linkswith another country and with the fi-nancing,” Soekarna told reporters.

“Ali is believed to be a Saudi Ara-bian national.”

Analysts have said that if thefunding for the attacks came fromabroad, a likely source would be Al-Qaeda. But police have not con-firmed any connection between thehotel blasts and Saudi-born Osamabin Laden’s organisation.

Al-Qaeda has allegedly financedprevious suicide attacks in Indone-sia including the 2002 Bali bomb-ings that killed 202 people, andNoordin’s first major operation, a


JAKARTA - Indonesia’s death toll from swine fluhas risen to four, the health ministry said Tuesday.

“A boy aged below five years has been confirmedas the latest fatality from swine flu. He died severaldays ago from severe pneumonia,” director general

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JAKARTA - The government plans to allocatefunds totaling Rp309.8 trillion for the regions in 2010to sustain the implementation of fiscal decentraliza-tion. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made thestatement in his state-of-the-nation address on na-tional development in a regional perspective at a spe-cial plenary session of the Regional RepresentativesCouncil DPD) here on Wednesday.

“Of the total amount of funds to be transferred tothe regions, the equalization funds are envisaged toreach Rp293.0 trillion or an increase by Rp7.7 tril-lion, compared to the projected realization in 2009,”the president said.

He added the budget was planned to be allocatedin the form of Shared Funds (DBH) totaling Rp76.6trillion, General Allocation Funds (DAU) to the tuneof Rp195.8 trillion, and Special Allocation Funds(DAK) amounting to Rp20.6 trillion.

The president also said Special Autonomy Funds(Otsus) allocated for the Provinces of Aceh, Papuaand West Papua, were projected to reach Rp8.9 tril-lion.

AFP PHOTO/ROMEO GACAD

Armed Indonesian soldiers from the nuclear, biological and chemi-cal warfare unit undergo decontamination during a military exer-cise at the office of the Jakarta city mayor on August 19, 2009. Aman believed to be from Saudi Arabia has been arrested on suspi-cion of smuggling money used to finance the July 17 suicide bombattacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in the capitalthat killed nine people, Indonesian police said.

AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO

Indonesian Police spokesman Nanan Soekarna (R) shows wanted leftlets of (pictured L to R) Ario Sudarso,Mohamad Syahrir, Bagus Budi Pranoto and Syaifudin Zuhri during a press conference in Jakarta on Au-gust 19, 2009 who are wanted for their possible involvement in the July 17 suicide attacks on the JWMarriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels. Two suicide bombers believed to be part of Islamist fanatic NoordinMohammed Top’s network killed seven people, mostly foreigners, at the two hotels in downtown Jakarta onJuly 17, the first attack of its kind in Indonesia since 2005.

Indonesia probes Saudi cash link to hotels attackIndonesia probes Saudi cash link to hotels attackIndonesia probes Saudi cash link to hotels attackIndonesia probes Saudi cash link to hotels attackIndonesia probes Saudi cash link to hotels attackAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - A man believed to be from Saudi Arabia has been ar-rested on suspicion of smuggling money used to finance last month’sdeadly Jakarta hotel attacks, Indonesian police said Wednesday.

2003 truck bombing of the JakartaMarriott that killed 12.

Noordin, 41, leads a splintergroup of the Jemaah Islamiyah ter-ror network, which aims to create aregional Islamic caliphate.

He is Indonesia’s most-wantedman and is blamed for a series ofattacks against Westerners in themainly Muslim country that havekilled around 50 people andwounded hundreds.

He has previously called himselfthe leader of “Al-Qaeda in the MalayArchipelago” but it is unclearwhether there is any ongoing, directcontact between his group and Al-Qaeda.

“The question is whether he onlyimitates it or whether he has somestructural affiliation,” InternationalCrisis Group expert Sidney Jonessaid in a report last week.

DNA tests showed that a suspectkilled in an August 8 raid on a mili-tant hideout was not Noordin as ini-tially reported, police said last week.

Police also named four suspectedsenior members of Noordin’s net-work who are being hunted over theJuly 17 attacks, including one whowas arrested in 2004 and released.

President: Government to allocateRp309.8 trillion for regions in 2010

Indonesia reports fourth swine flu deathfor disease control Tjandra Yoga Aditama told AFP.

Indonesia had recorded 872 confirmed cases of theA(H1N1) influenza virus, which has killed over 1,000people around the world since it was first detected inApril in Mexico. The first cases appeared in Indone-sia in June after a British tourist and an Indonesianpilot tested positive.

Truck crash kills 25 in Indonesiaing to avoid a damaged stretch ofroad near Sampit, CentralKalimantan province, on Tuesdaynight, traffic police official Anwartold AFP.

“The people were on their wayhome from a shopping trip at a nearbymarket. The truck could only carry20 to 30 people at most,” he said.

“I hope that the Special Autonomy Funds can bespent optimally, in order to extricate the regions con-cerned from their disadvantaged position in provid-ing services in health, education and infrastructure.However, I also request that a more effective moni-toring of the use of Otsus Funds is applied,” the presi-dent said.

The head of state said starting in 2010 changeswould be made to the allotment of Shared Funds(DBH) from Excises on Tobacco Products, by includ-ing regions producing excises on tobacco and thoseproducing tobacco.

Moreover, the president said, the governmentwould also allocate Geothermal DBH funds as partof the Natural Resources Shared Funds (DBH SDA).

From the experience during the last four years, thepresident said prices of oil and gas, as well as coal,were expected to undergo persistent fluctuations, re-sulting in frequent changes in state revenue from thenatural resource sector.

“I should remind the regions relying on DBH SDAfunds, to improve their anticipative ability as well asto manage the fluctuating prices of natural resourcesand the region’s revenue,” the president said.

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SINGAPORE - Oil surged backnear 70 dollars in Asian trade Wednes-day on better retail sales in the UnitedStates and bargain-buying followingrecent price falls.

New York’s main futures contract,light sweet crude for delivery in Sep-tember, was up 79 cents to 69.98 dol-lars a barrel in morning trade.

Brent North Sea crude for Octo-ber delivery gained 44 cents to 72.81dollars.

Crude prices rallied as traders re-turned to the market following a slumpthat saw oil dip well below the psy-chological 70-dollar level, analystssaid.

“It’s the same old story,” saidTony Nunan, an energy risk managerat Mitsubishi Corp in Tokyo.

“When we have a large drop (inprices), it seems that people come inthe next day (and buy) based on the

AFP PHOTO/ROSLAN RAHMAN

This photo taken on August 18, 2009 shows a night scene of Singapore’s financial district. Asiais outpacing the United States and Europe in the rebound from the global economic slump,thanks to multi-billion dollar stimulus packages and robust demand from China, analysts said.

Asian economies outpace USAsian economies outpace USAsian economies outpace USAsian economies outpace USAsian economies outpace USand Europe on growth trackand Europe on growth trackand Europe on growth trackand Europe on growth trackand Europe on growth track

Second-quarter indicatorsshowed the region’s recession-hiteconomies such as Singapore andHong Kong have returned to thegrowth path despite sluggish de-mand from the US and Europeanmarkets, their main export desti-nations.

Countries with bigger domes-tic populations, including China,India, Indonesia, South Korea, thePhilippines and Vietnam, havebeen growing during the globaldownturn although the pace hasslowed.

Japan, the world’s secondlargest economy, lumbered out ofrecession in the second quarter andPrime Minister Taro Aso creditedthe government’s stimulus pack-age for the achievement.

In contrast, US gross domes-tic product was estimated to haveshrunk 1.0 percent in the secondquarter, and the eurozone economydipped a milder than expected 0.1percent after Germany and Franceemerged from recession.

US-based credit ratings firmStandard and Poor’s said that five


WASHINGTON - The global re-covery from recession depends on adelicate rebalancing of economies —notably between the United States andAsia — to sustain it, the chief IMFeconomist said.

“The recovery has started. Sus-taining it will require delicate rebal-ancing acts, both within and acrosscountries,” Olivier Blanchard said inan IMF article, released in advance ofpublication Wednesday.

Blanchard cautioned that predict-able models based on past recoveriesfrom recessions would not apply to theworst global slump since World WarII.

“The world is not in a run-of-themill recession. The turnaround will notbe simple. The crisis has left deepscars, which will affect both supplyand demand for many years to come,”he said.

In its latest economic forecasts,the IMF estimated in July a global con-traction of 1.4 percent in 2009, fol-lowed by sluggish growth of 2.5 per-cent in 2010.

The United States, the epicenterof the crisis, “is central to any worldrecovery,” Blanchard said in the ar-ticle titled “Sustaining a Global Re-covery.”

Blanchard said two rebalancingacts will have to come into play to sus-tain the global recovery: a switch frompublic to private spending and the re-balancing of international trade flows.

The latter would require “a shiftfrom domestic to foreign demand in


SINGAPORE - Asia is outpacing the United States and Europe in the rebound from theglobal economic slump, thanks to multi-billion dollar stimulus packages and robust demand fromChina, analysts said.

of the 14 Asia-Pacific economiesit covers will post positive growththis year, with nine expected to re-port contractions.

But by next year, all 14 shouldpost year-on-year growth, led byChina’s projected expansion of8.0-8.5 percent.

The US economy is forecastto contract by 2.9 percent this yearand grow 1.5 percent in 2010, itadded.

Asian economies were ham-mered after a crisis in the US hous-ing market sparked global finan-cial and economic turmoil late lastyear.

Some analysts said the impacton Asia showed that the region’sfortunes remain largely linked tothe West and that there would beno recovery until after the indus-trialized economies had re-bounded.

But the speed and strength ofthe region’s recovery showed it isnot entirely dependent on the USeconomy.

“The pattern we’re seeing isthat while the US remains a very

significant contributor to Asiangrowth, it has become less signifi-cant over time,” Subir Gokarn,Standard and Poor’s chief econo-mist for the Asia Pacific, said at arecent media briefing inSingapore.

Massive stimulus packagesrolled out by Asian governmentsto perk up domestic demandplayed an important role in help-ing the region weather the down-turn, Gokarn said.

The packages totaled morethan one trillion US dollars, ac-cording to a Standard and Poor’stally, led by China’s staggering 585billion dollars in spending.

“Asian governments cameinto the crisis with a strong fiscalposition and relatively low debtwhich allowed them to react rap-idly and aggressively,” Mark Wil-liams, an economist withconsultancy Capital Economics,told AFP.

Despite Asia’s rapid growth,the US economy will maintain itsglobal economic dominance, Wil-liams said.

Oil back near 70dollars in Asian trade

economic recovery story.” Nunan said better-than-expected

performances posted by major US re-tailers such as DIY firm Home DepotInc also helped boost prices as it wasseen as a sign of improving US con-sumer confidence.

Home Depot raised its forecast forfiscal 2009 after reporting a less-than-expected 7.2 percent decrease in earn-ings in the second quarter compared tothe same period last year.

The company said it expected earn-ings per share of between zero to sevenpercent over last year. It previously fore-cast a loss of between zero and sevenpercent.

However, Nunan warned that alarge crude stockpile in the UnitedStates will continue to weigh down onprices amid weak energy demand.

Consumption patterns in the UnitedStates can influence prices because theUS economy is the world’s biggest en-ergy user.

Global recovery requires US,Asia rebalancing

the United States and a reverse shiftfrom foreign to domestic demand in therest of the world, particularly in Asia,”he said.

Pointing to a decline in Americanhousehold consumption — which “rep-resents 70 percent of total US demand”— and a rise in the personal saving ratethat is expected to persist for some time,Blanchard estimated a 3.0 percentagepoint drop in the ratio of consumptionto US gross domestic product, a broadmeasure of economic output.

With the 3.0 percent drop unlikelyto be made up by increased investmentand the eventual phase-out of the mas-sive fiscal stimulus, “US net exportsmust increase” for the US recovery tooccur, he said.

Key to the rebalancing act will bean increase in foreign demand for USgoods, particularly in countries withlarge current account surpluses, nota-bly in China and other Asian countries.

“From the point of view of theUnited States, a decrease in China’s cur-rent account surplus would help in-crease demand, and sustain the US re-covery. That would result in more USimports, which would help sustainworld recovery,” the top economist atthe 186-nation institution said.

China may be willing to pursuethat “because it may well be in its owninterest,” said the economist, but otheremerging market Asian countries thatrun large current account surpluseshave weaker incentives than China toboost internal demand.

Blanchard said that Asia ap-peared the best-placed to tip the tradebalance.

Outbreak 1939, which opensThursday at the Imperial War Mu-seum in London, explores the build-up to Britain’s September 3 decla-ration of war on Germany and tellsthe stories of those involved at thetime.

The museum hopes the exhibitionwill resonate with the British pub-lic, now consumed with the mount-ing death toll of the war in Afghani-stan, which hit 200 on Saturday.

“There are lessons to be learned,”said James Taylor, the museum’shead of research. “What we try to getin this exhibition is the effect onpeople,” he told AFP.

“When we think of World War IIand the numbers of deaths, it’s veryeasy to see that as just a statistic.Like the men and women who aregiving their lives in Afghanistan to-day, these are people as well and it’svery often subsumed under hugenumbers.”

Among the items is prime minis-ter Neville Chamberlain’s pocket di-ary, which contains a simple entryfor September 3, 1939: “War de-clared”.

Also on show is a letter to his sis-ter Ida recounting the week.

“I have had some dreadful anxi-eties especially during one sleepless

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LONDON- The private fears of kings, prime ministers and frightened children are going on show in anew British exhibition marking the lives touched by the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II.

night,” he wrote.“Of course the difficulty is with

Hitler himself. Until he disappearsand his system collapses there canbe no peace”.

A copy of king George VI’s wardiary reveals his sombre thoughts.

“As 11 o’clock struck that fate-ful morning I had a certain feelingof relief that those 10 anxious daysof intensive negotiations with Ger-many over Poland, which at mo-ments looked favourable, withMussolini working for peace as well,were over,” he wrote.

“Hitler would not and could nothave drawn back from the edge ofthe abyss to which he has led us.”

With the weight of responsibilitynow on his shoulders, the shy kingrecalled being a simple 18-year-oldmidshipman onboard HMSCollingwood somewhere in theNorth Sea when World War I brokeout.

“Those of us who had beenthrough the Great War never wantedanother,” he wrote.

Queen Elizabeth II has lent theexhibition the navy uniform jackether father wore to make his 6:00pmbroadcast to the British empire onSeptember 3.

The exhibition also includes the

letters and possessions of evacuatedchildren, fleeing Poles who wit-nessed the invasion, young Jewishrefugees and others whose lives weresuddenly turned upside down.

Among those evacuated was theartist Sir Peter Blake, who designedthe famous cover of The Beatles’“Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts ClubBand” album.

Blake was seven when he was sentfrom his family in Dartford, on theedge of London, to the Essex coun-tryside. He said the evacuation wasa traumatic experience.

A letter to his mother, a tiny toytractor his father made for him and abelt he made with army badges on arein the exhibition.

“It was an enormous change,” hetold AFP.

“When war was declared there wasan enormous panic and we wereevacuated the next day.

“What was positive about it wasthat it introduced me to a rural life. Iworked on the farm about the age ofnine, riding on the big carthorses.

“At seven it’s partly a game butthere was a constant fear. Youthought the Germans would invadeat any moment so it was scary.”

The free exhibition runs until Sep-tember 5 next year.


SAN FRANCISCO - Five Facebook users are suing the socialnetwork for doing what made it an online superstar — letting mem-bers share aspects of their lives on the Web.

A lawsuit filed Monday in a southern California court accusesFacebook of being a data-mining operation that does not deliveron promises to give users strict control of data uploaded to profilepages.

Facebook has dismissed the lawsuit as being without merit andpromised a legal battle. The suit asks for unspecified cash damages.

One of the parties to the suit is a woman who joined Facebookin an early phase when membership was limited to the collegecrowd.

Then-Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg foundedFacebook in 2004 as a way for college friends to remain con-nected as their lives grew apart.

The suit accuses Facebook of betraying the woman by evolv-ing into an open social network that now claims more than 250million members worldwide.

Other plaintiffs named in the suit are identified as a photogra-pher and an actress who contend Facebook is wrongly sharingpictures posted on their profile pages.

The remaining plaintiffs are young boys that the suit chargesshould not have been permitted by Facebook to join or post im-ages or comments.

Facebook requires members to be ages 13 or older, but there isno viable tool to confirm ages of those creating accounts.

One plaintiff is an 11-year-old boy who joined Facebook andthen posted that he had swine flu and uploaded pictures or video of“partially-clothed” children swimming, according to the lawsuit.

Facebook has steadfastly maintained that its members own in-formation they post to profile pages and control who gets to see it.

Facebook has repeatedly revised its terms of service to appeaseprivacy concerns of users while allowing for the technical side ofrunning a social networking service.

Last month, Facebook announced it is testing a tiered level ofprivacy options including “all of your friends, your friends andpeople in your school or work networks, and friends of friends.”

There is also an option to publicly share with everyone on theWeb in what is being seen as an effort by Facebook to competewith the hot micro-blogging service Twitter.

Five users sue Facebook forbeing too social a network

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Historical material and personal memorabilia are displayed during the press view of the exhibition ‘Out-break 1939’ at the Imperial War Museum in south London, on August 18, 2009. Seventy years after theannouncement that signified the start of the Second World War the exhibition explores how being a nationat war shaped the lives of ordinary men and women as well as those who were actively involved in thepolitical negotiations and their aftermath. The exhibition runs from August 20, 2009 to September 6, 2010.

He said some oil had been spilt and that dozens of maritime of-ficials and a total of 11 boats and two helicopters were battling theblaze. “The missing nine crew members are Chinese. There is someoil spill,” he said.

Osman said the burning tanker was not a threat to other ships inthe Strait and was not disrupting traffic. Accidents are rare in thenarrow Malacca Strait, a vital artery for world trade.

Rizal said a search was under way off the coast of Port Dickson,in Negeri Sembilan, south of Kuala Lumpur, for the missing crewmembers.

“The bulk carrier slammed into the left side of the Taiwanesetanker that was coming from United Arab Emirates,” he said. Mari-time officials said the bulk carrier was flying the Isle of Man flag.

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said ina statement that the bulk carrier MV Ostende Max did not sufferserious damage and had been ordered to berth near Port Dicksonfor investigations.

Rizal said the 16 crew members rescued had been admitted tohospital in Port Dickson.

At least 94,000 ships sail the narrow strait each year, of which20 percent are Japanese vessels, most of them large crude oil carri-ers.

Last month a Japanese foundation warned of potential dangersin the Strait and urged ship owners to contribute to the MalaccaStrait navigation safety fund to help maintain buoys and other navi-gational aids.

“There is a potential for an accident to happen. If it involvescrude oil tankers, there will be a major oil spill. This could disruptinternational trade,” Nippon Foundation chairman Yohei Sasakawatold AFP.

The Malacca Strait, one of the busiest waterways in the world, isvital to Japan’s national interests as more than 80 percent of its oilpasses through it.

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The roads leading to the plantwere lined with a heavy securitypresence. On one stretch, 75 to 100officers patrolled the streets as smallgroups of parents gathered. How-ever, when parents tried to talk tovisiting journalists about their con-cerns over health, the security offic-ers tried to break up the interviews.

At least 615 of 731 children intwo villages near the Dongling Leadand Zinc Smelting Co. plant inShaanxi province’s Changqing


CHERYOMUSHKY - “Why isthere so little information? There can’tjust be 12 dead!” screamed a voice.“Why has no-one else been found inthe last 20 hours?” shouted another.

Many loved ones of those stillmissing say they have yet to be toldthe whole truth by the authoritiesabout the accident this week atRussia’s biggest hydroelectricpower station.

Sixty-two employees of theSayano-Shushenskaya plant in south-ern Siberia are still missing, over twodays after a tragedy that is alreadyconfirmed to have killed 12 people.

But rescuers have insisted they havenot given up hope of finding them alivein the flooded wreckage of the turbinehall that was shattered after being en-gulfed by a flood of water.


KUALA LUMPUR - A Muslimmodel sentenced to six strokes of thecane for drinking beer will be the firstwoman in Malaysia to be caned un-der Islamic law, her lawyer saidWednesday.

Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32,was sentenced to a caning and a fineof 5,000 ringgit (1,414 dollars) lastmonth after she pleaded guilty todrinking alcohol at a hotel nightclubin the eastern state of Pahang last year.

The Malaysian mother of two,who lives in Singapore, told AFP thatshe was willing to receive the pun-ishment after the Sharia High Courtin Pahang on Tuesday issued a war-rant for her arrest.

“I received a message from my dadyesterday. So I come back to Perak(from Singapore),” she said.

“I accept the punishment. I amnot afraid because because I wasready to be punished from day one.They (authorities) hope to use mycase as a way to educate the Mus-lims. So go ahead. I want to move

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Children affected by lead poisoning from the Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Co. plant receive medicaltreatment at a hospital in Fengxiang county, West of Xi’an, China, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Dozens ofpolice and plainclothes officers guarded the Chinese smelting plant in central Shaanxi on Wednesday,days after hundreds of villagers stormed the factory because more than 600 children from two nearbyvillages had been sickened by lead poisoning.

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CHANGQING - Dozens of police and plainclothes officers guardeda Chinese smelting plant in central Shaanxi on Wednesday, days afterhundreds of villagers stormed the factory because more than 600 chil-dren from two nearby villages had been sickened by lead poisoning.

town have tested positive for leadpoisoning. Some had lead levels 10times the level China considers safe.

At the nearby Fengxiang CountyHospital, 80 children had been ad-mitted as of Wednesday for observa-tion and treatment of lead poisoning.

Zha Xiaofang, 41, fromMadaokou village, said her 8-year-old daughter has lead levels consid-ered mid- to high-level poisoning.Her daughter has had abdominalpain and memory problems for some

time.“We are anxious because we don’t

know what will happen next and wedon’t have any guarantees for thefuture,” she said, standing just out-side the children’s ward where herdaughter was being treated.

Children could be seen lying onhospital beds with their parents hov-ering nearby, many of them on IVdrips.

Police and plainclothes officersin the hospital followed journalistsaround and tried to prevent themfrom conducting interviews.

The other village affected isSunjianantou. Parents of a few hun-dred children were waiting for theresults of tests Tuesday for lead poi-soning in a third village, Luobosi.

Associated Press Writer

EL DORADO - A man accusedof killing a Kansas college studentwho led a secret life as an Internetpornography model pleaded notguilty to her murder Tuesday.

The attorney for Israel Mireles, 26,entered the plea after Judge DavidRicke ruled that prosecutors hadenough evidence to try him on chargesof capital murder, rape and aggravatedcriminal sodomy in the death of 18-year-old Emily Sander. The trial isscheduled to begin Nov. 2.

Ricke’s ruling followed adaylong preliminary hearing in But-ler County District Court in whichprosecutors laid out their case

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Relatives of people who died in an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station cry at a funeral in thenearby village of Maina on August 19, 2009.

Suspect ordered to trial in death of porn modelagainst Mireles, portraying a nightof underage drinking that endedwith Sander’s brutal slaying.

Kansas Attorney General SteveSix told the judge the capital mur-der charge was justified because thetestimony showed she was alivewhile she was being tortured, rapedand sodomized.

His defense attorney, MelanieFreeman-Johnson, probed details ofwitness testimony but offered nohint of her trial strategy and pre-sented no witnesses. She declinedto comment after the hearing.

Evidence presented by prosecu-tors included testimony from friendsand witnesses who said they sawSander leave a southeast Kansas bar

with the suspect the night of Nov. 23,2007. Her battered, nude body wasfound six days later off a highwayabout 50 miles (80 kilometers) away.

She died after being repeatedlystabbed, strangled and beaten, ac-cording to testimony.

Investigators recovered the knifethey believe was used in the crimefrom a trash bin in Baxter Springswhere Mireles picked up his preg-nant girlfriend before fleeing toMexico, according to testimony. Thetrash bin also contained blood-stained clothing, including a pair ofboxer shorts that had both her bloodand his semen, investigators said.His semen was also found on herbody, according to testimony.

Malaysian model acceptspunishment for drinking beer

on with my life.“I am not worried at all nor do I

want to avoid the punishment becauseI accept the punishment,” she added.

Kartika’s lawyer, Mohamad ZukiChe Muhamad Ghani, said his clientwould be jailed on August 24 for oneweek before the caning.

“The warrant of arrest was issuedto facilitate the caning,” he told AFP.

“She has to be jailed first and un-dergo health check-up to determinewhether she is fit to be caned. She willbe the first woman in the country to becaned under the religious laws,”Mohamad added. Kartika’s father,Shukarno Mutalib, told AFP that thefamily accepted the court’s decision.

“We are not feeling sad. We areMuslims and I agree she has to becaned. She has already pleaded guilty.We will follow the rules,” Shukarnosaid.Mohamad said Kartika had livedin Singapore for 15 years after marry-ing a citizen of the city state.

Malaysia, which has large Chineseand Indian minorities, has a dual-tracked legal system. Sharia courts cantry Muslims for religious offences.

At stricken Russian dam,relatives vent fury over missing

Dozens of relatives met with of-ficials from the emergencies minis-try at a nearby cultural centre, in anencounter marked by anger, frustra-tion and fears that there may nolonger be reason to hope.

“We don’t want secrets! If myson is dead then fine, tell me. I wentto the morgue last night and theywouldn’t tell me anything,” said aman who gave his name as Viktor.

“I know my husband is still alive.There is a cushion of air there wherehe could be. Why haven’t youdrained the water there?” demandedLena Petrovna, wife of one of themissing at the plant.

Alexander Kresan, head of theministry of emergency sitiuationssearch teams for Siberia, sought toexplain that all would be done foras long as there was a chance offinding anyone alive.

Theories about the prolificcomposer’s untimely death haveranged from poisoning to kidneyfailure to trichinosis, a parasitic dis-ease that comes from eating raw orundercooked pork.

But Richard Zegers of the Uni-versity of Amsterdam concluded thatthe legendary composer fell victimto a “minor epidemic” of strep throatinfection in Vienna, where Mozartdied in December 1791.

Zegers and his colleagues basedtheir study, which was published inthe Annals of Internal Medicine, on

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BEIJING - French director Jean-Jacques Annaud on Tuesday unveiled hisplans to film the screen adaptation of the award-winning best-seller “WolfTotem” in China, his first project in the giant Asian nation.

Annaud, best known for films such as “Two Brothers”, “The Bear”,“The Lover” and “The Name of the Rose”, just returned from InnerMongolia and Mongolia proper, where he scouted film sites with the book’sauthor Jiang Rong.

“Wolf Totem”, which won the Asian equivalent of the Booker Prize in 2007,is a fictional account of life in the 1970s in the remote China-Mongolia borderregion, and the struggle between tradition and modernity.

“My interest in the relationship between humans and animals is magnifi-cently described by this book,” Annaud told reporters.

“It’s the story of a young man who discovers a civilisation — that has beenthe theme in many of my films.”

The novel has been a massive hit in China, with more than 2.6 millionofficial copies — and more than 17 million pirated copies — sold since 2004.The book has been translated into several foreign languages including En-glish. Jiang Rong is a pseudonym, as the author is a former Chinese politicalprisoner jailed for taking part in the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy protests.

Annaud said he was approached by a Chinese production house, BeijingForbidden City Corp, to work on the project. He has just begun writing thescript and said he hopes to begin filming in 2011. “It’s a difficult script to write,I’ll need at least six months,” he said.

The French filmmaker said he was looking forward to working in China,and said the criticism he received from authorities over “Seven Years in Tibet”,which offered a sympathetic portrayal of the Dalai Lama, was in the past.

“I told them right away that I had done that film, but they told me thatthe situation had changed, that mentalities had evolved, that it was in thepast,” he said.


LOS ANGELES - Hollywood leg-end Robert Redford has signed upto direct a historical drama about theassassination of US presidentAbraham Lincoln, The HollywoodReporter said Tuesday.

Lincoln, whose presidential ten-ure took place during the 1861-1865US civil war, emancipated slaves andwas mortally shot by a southern sym-pathizer in Washington as he waswatching a play just weeks after thefighting ended.

Redford’s “The Conspirator”plans to focus on the role of MarySurratt, a Washington tavern ownerwho sympathized with the Confed-eracy in the south and was allegedly


OTTAWA - Canadian singer Celine Dion, 41, is pregnant with hersecond child, her spokeswoman told AFP Tuesday.

Dion and her husband Rene Angelil, director of the French-languagereality-television show “Star Academie,” are “both very happy,” thespokeswoman added.

According to the French-language daily Le Journal de Montreal, whichwas first to report the story, the singer resorted to medical help to con-ceive. Dion, who is from Quebec, is expected to give birth in May 2010.

In March, Dion announced an 18-month career hiatus in order to spendtime with her family and have a second child.

Married almost 15 years, Dion currently has one son, Rene-Charles,born on January 25, 2001. He is to start his first day of school on Tues-day in Florida, Dion’s spokeswoman said.

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WASHINGTON - A Dutch study published Tuesday concludes thatWolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose death at 35 has long been the sub-ject of speculation, may have been a victim of complications stem-ming from strep throat.

data from death records in the Aus-trian capital ranging between No-vember 1791 and January 1972.

According to his death certificate,Mozart died from “hitzigesFrieselfieber,” a kind of fever that isaccompanied by a rash. But the re-searchers said the diagnosis wasmore likely a description of symp-toms than of a disease.

Witness accounts also said Mozart,who composed more than 600 worksduring his short life, fell ill of an “in-flammatory fever,” which the studynoted was consistent with strep throat.

He eventually developed severeswelling, cramps, fever and a rash,also consistent with a strep throat in-fection leading to glomerulonephri-tis, an acute kidney inflammation.

The swelling was so severe, hissister-in-law Sophie Haibel recalledthree decades later, that Mozart couldnot turn in bed but was conscious andin sound mental condition until hisdying breath. Mozart may also havedied from scarlet fever, the research-ers said, while noting this was “a lesslikely possibility.” The illness wasshort-lived, lasting only two weeks.

The last months of his life werebrimming with productivity, and sawMozart complete the score of theopera “The Magic Flute,” conduct itspremiere, visit a spa town, composehis clarinet concerto and begin writ-ing his never completed “Requiem.”

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French filmdirector Jean-Jacques Annaudsimulates thesound of wolfhowling as heholds a poster ofthe film “WolfTotem” at a pressconference inBeijing on August18, 2009. Annaudwill direct the filmversion of theChinese novel.AFP PHOTO/LIU Jin

Redford to direct Lincoln assassination filmlinked to the assassination plot.

The script was written by JamesSolomon, known for penning the TVseries “The Bronx is Burning,” whileactor James McAvoy is being con-sidered for one of the lead roles, theReporter said.

Surratt allegedly suppliedLincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth,and accomplice David Herold, withweapons. She was convicted andhanged for her role in the plot de-spite doubts over her guilt, the Re-porter said.

The status of two other moviesabout Lincoln — a biography to bedirected by Steven Spielberg, and astory on the chase for Lincoln’s kill-ers that was to star Harrison Ford —remains uncertain.

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TAIPEI - Taiwan’s politicalstorm surrounding TyphoonMorakot gained force Wednesdayas the defence minister and cabi-net secretary offered to resign overthe government’s slow emergencyresponse.

A new poll suggested 46 percentof people had no confidence in thegovernment’s ability to handle re-construction efforts as President MaYing-jeou’s approval rating droppedto a near record low of 29 percent.

The number of confirmed deadmeanwhile rose to 136, but Ma haswarned the death toll could climbto more than 500, with 380 peoplefeared buried by mudslides in thesouthern village of Hsiaolin alone.

Angry survivors surrounded thepresident during a visit Wednesdayto Hsiaolin. Ma burned incensesticks and bowed before a muddyplain that 12 days earlier was a tidyvillage.

“President, you’ve come way toolate,” a woman shouted at Ma infootage broadcast on cable news


COLOMBO - The Sri Lankangovernment plans to keep uprecord defence spending despiteits recent victory over Tamil rebelsthat ended nearly four decades offighting, a senior official said.

Defence secretary GotabhayaRajapakse said the military neededto be modernised and paymentsmade on hardware bought oncredit.

Sri Lanka raised its defencebudget to a record 1.6 billion dol-lars in 2009, and finally crushedthe Tamil Tigers separatists in Mayafter months of intense battles.

“I don’t see an immediate needto reduce the defence spending nextyear,” Rajapakse told AFP on thesidelines of a meeting on Tuesday.


SEOUL - South Korea Wednes-day postponed the launch of its firstspace rocket just eight minutes be-fore the scheduled blast-off, due toan unspecified technical fault.

Mission controllers suspendedthe launch at 4.52 pm (0752 GMT)and began dumping fuel, the scienceministry said. It was the seventhtime since 2002 that the project,operated in partnership with Russia,has been delayed.

The Korea Space Launch Ve-hicle-1, which was due to put a sat-ellite into orbit, was reattached tothe launch pad.

“There was a problem in the auto-matic launch sequence that caused the

Srilanka to maintain defencebudget despite rebel defeat

“We have cut down on our am-munition purchases. But we needto bring in new technology to up-grade our military capacity.”

Sri Lanka relied heavily onmortar bombs and ammunitionpurchased from China and Paki-stan during the ethnic conflict.

After routing the Tamil Tigers,the government scrapped a 200-million dollar ammunition orderfrom China.

Rajapakse added that nearly30,000 government forces werekilled and 10,000 disabled in thedecades of fighting, with 6,000killed in the last three months ofwarfare.

The Sri Lankan army intends torecruit tens of thousands of newtroops to be deployed in areas pre-viously under rebel control.

South Korea postpones rocketlaunch minutes before blast-off

launch to be called off,” said KoreaAerospace Research Institute headLee Joo-Jin, without giving details.

He told Yonhap news agency anew date would be set after consul-tation with experts from Russia,which manufactured the rocket’sfirst stage. A successful launchwould make South Korea the tenthcountry to put a satellite into orbitusing its own rocket.

Seoul has invested 502.5 billionwon (419 million dollars) and muchnational pride in the 33-metre (108-foot) rocket, whose second stagewas built by local engineers.

Seoul also built the 100-kilogram(220-pound) scientific research sat-ellite atop the rocket at the NaroSpace Centre at Goheung, 475

kilometres (300 miles) south ofSeoul.

North Korea, smarting over UNSecurity Council censure of its ownrocket launch in April, had said itwould watch closely to see whetherworld powers also refer the SouthKorean launch to the Council.

Pyongyang insists it was unfairlypunished for its April 5 launch, say-ing it merely put a peaceful com-munications satellite into orbit.

Washington and its allies say nosatellite was detected in orbit and theNorth’s launch was a disguised testof a Taepodong-2 missile.

Seoul has bristled at any compari-sons with its neighbour’s operation,insisting its own launch is purely forscientific purposes.

Taiwan minister resigns astyphoon political storm grows

channels.He tried to comfort a woman in a

traditional Taiwanese funeral robe,who was performing a Taoist ritualto summon the spirits of her relativeswhose bodies have yet to be found.

Defence Minister Chen Chao-min and Cabinet Secretary GeneralHsueh Hsiang-chuan, in charge ofcoordination between ministries, of-fered to step down, a cabinet officialsaid on condition of anonymity.

The first political casualty wasvice-foreign minister Andrew HsiaLi-yan, who tendered his resigna-tion on Tuesday — for refusingoverseas aid.

Premier Liu Chao-shiuan has re-ceived their resignations and wasconsidering them, the official said.

Lin Hou-wang, a Ma adviser andNational Taiwan University philoso-phy professor, said the prime minis-ter and others should also considerresigning.

“The cabinet needs an overall re-shuffle for letting the society down,”Lin told AFP.

The cabinet secretary faced per-sonal criticism after angrily justify-ing himself for dining with his fam-ily at a five-star hotel on August 8,the day Morakot struck, saying it wasFather’s Day in Taiwan and “not outof line”.

The defense ministry has beenunder fire for deploying too fewtroops during the initial rescue op-eration, with only 2,100 sent on Au-gust 9 before the number was dra-matically increased to 43,300 fivedays later. Ma and senior officialsbegan a news conference on Tues-day by bowing in a symbolic apol-ogy to the Taiwanese people for notrecognising the magnitude of thedisaster fast enough.

He promised an investigation intomistakes made after the typhoon andvowed to punish officials found tohave been negligent, once the probe’sresults are published next month.

Security forces fanned out on highalert in a bid to protect the capital froma spike in Taliban violence that hasunleashed two suicide attacks androcket strikes on the relatively peace-ful city just days before the vote.

The Taliban said Wednesday’s siegewas part of a series of attacks planned

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An Afghan policeman aims his weapon at photojournalists Paula Bronstein (2L) and Kevin Frayer (L) ashe prevents them from approaching the area where three gunmen stormed a bank in Kabul on August 19,2009. The Afghan government came under severe criticism for attempting to ban media coverage of esca-lating Taliban violence in case it deters people from voting in Thursday’s elections.

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KABUL - Fresh attacks hit Kabul as Taliban gunmen stormed abank building and fought pitched battles with police Wednesday onthe eve of Afghanistan’s second presidential election.

for the eve of elections after the insur-gent militia threatened to accelerate itsbid to derail the polls that bolster West-ern-backed moves to democracy.

Armed police forced their wayinto the bank after the building wasstormed by at least three gunmen.Loud bursts of gunfire echoed as

dozens of security forces and intel-ligence agents gathered outside, saidan AFP reporter.

“We have killed three of the at-tackers inside the bank,” Kabulcriminal investigation police chiefSayed Abdul Ghafar Sayedzada toldAFP. “They were Taliban,” he said.

The attack was likely to increasethe fears of Afghans about it beingsafe to go out to vote despite reas-surances from authorities and afterUS and allied forces have steppedup their anti-insurgency offensive.

The dancer, 11-year-old SoeurnNhanh, says he had a hopeless ex-istence as a shoeshine boy until hediscovered Cambodia’s first andonly breakdancing and hip hopschool.

“When I grow up, I want to be abreakdancing teacher and earnmoney to support myself and myfamily,” he says, grinning.

Established a few years ago by aformer US gang member deportedafter being convicted of armed rob-bery, the Tiny Toones centre alsoteaches disc jockey skills and rap-ping to nearly 400 children.

Besides helping bring hip hopculture to Cambodia, Tiny Toonesand its founder Tuy Sobil, betterknown as Kay Kay, have won acco-lades for helping drug addicts andpoor street kids transform their lives.

“Our [centre] doesn’t judge wherethe kids come from. It doesn’t mat-ter whether it’s the rich, poor, or or-phans, sex workers or drug kids...wejust make everybody equal here,”Kay Kay says.

“I’m happy to tell them that oneday they will get better,” he adds. Thecentre now also teaches English,Khmer and computers. Kay Kay, 32,brings lessons from his own life tothe job.

He is one of some 200 Cambodi-

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Cambodian hip hop trainer Tuy Sobil (L) trains a girl in hip hop dance at his club in Phnom Penh on June 12,2009. Established a few years ago by the former US gang member deported after being convicted of armedrobbery, the Tiny Toones centre also teaches disc jockey skills and rapping to nearly 400 children. Besideshelping bring hip hop culture to Cambodia, Tiny Toones and its founder Tuy Sobil, better known as Kay Kay,have won accolades for helping drug addicts and poor street kids transform their lives.

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PHNOM PENH - A slim boy with curly hair spins on his head to hiphop music at a house down a crowded and dusty road in the Cambo-dian capital.

ans ejected from the United Statesover the past several years under alaw which deports felons who do nothave American citizenship.

Kay Kay had never been back toCambodia, which he left as a babywhen his family emigrated to theUS.

His parents neglected to completeUS citizenship documents whenthey arrived in California and afterbeing jailed for armed robbery at 18he was deported, leaving his familyand young son behind.

“For Kay Kay, deportation is avery sensitive thing to talk about,”says Ho Lisa, Tiny Toones’ admin-istration director.

When he arrived in Cambodia,Kay Kay seemed to leave his old lifefar behind, working as a counsellorfor drug addicts. But in almost ev-ery way, Kay Kay is American.

He named his centre “TinyToones” for the classic US children’scartoon programmes, and althoughhis students mimic his baggy trou-sers and colourful over-sized t-shirts,he still draws attention aroundPhnom Penh.

“With tied-up long hair and aheavily-tattooed body, I get a badimpression from people. I mightlook like I’m very violent but I’mnot,” Kay Kay says.

Many Cambodians fear or find ithard to accept deportees like KayKay, who were initially expected tobring a crime wave with them to thecountry.

“Depending on their jobs, someof them (deportees) still facestigma,” says Ong Klung, head ofthe Returnee Integration SupportProgram. “Some find it hard to func-tion.”

Taing Phoeuk, director ofKorsang, an HIV educationorganisation which is staffed bymany deportees, says the vast ma-jority are not involved in any crimi-nal behaviour.

“Many work in non-governmen-tal organisations, companies or havegone to live with their familiesthroughout Cambodia. But a fewothers are still abusing drugs,” saysTaing Phoeuk, a deportee himself.

For his part, Kay Kay says hisstudents inspire him to live well, al-though there is also irony in the at-tention he has had from foundingTiny Toones.

When he gave a performance ata Clinton Global Initiative meetingin Hong Kong last year, Kay Kaydanced in front of former US presi-dent Bill Clinton — the man whopassed the law which banished him.

He also could not accompany hisstudents as they went on a perfor-mance tour of the US early this year.

Kay Kay says he is slowly beingaccepted into Cambodian societynow and hopes he will be completelywelcome someday.

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But Obama praised Israel for curtail-ing new tenders for settlements in the WestBank and urged Arab states and Palestin-ians to join the Jewish state in taking“risks” to pull the stalled peace processout of a rut.

Mubarak, in his first presidential sum-mit in the United States in five years, ar-gued that rows over issues like settlementsand proposals for piecemeal Arab conces-sions to Israel were bogging the processdown.

“We need to move to the final statussolution and level,” Mubarak told report-ers as he sat with Obama in the Oval Of-fice.

“I have contacted the Israelis and theysaid ‘perhaps we can talk about a tempo-rary solution,’ but I told them ‘No’, I toldthem ‘forget about the temporary solution,forget about temporary borders.’”

Final status talks would tackle the mostintractable issues in the Middle East, in-cluding the status of Jerusalem in perpe-tuity, the borders of a final Palestinian stateand the right of return for Palestinian refu-gees.

Israeli Foreign Minister AvigdorLieberman told US lawmakers last weekthat pushing for a fast-track deal over thenext year would not work and proposedconcentrating on security and Palestinianeconomic conditions.

Obama, throwing himself deeper into


TEGUCIGALPA - Interim leaders in Honduras who backedthe June 28 ouster of President Manuel Zelaya on Tuesday brokeoff diplomatic ties with Argentina, which has made a strongpush to return the deposed leader.

The de facto leaders said they were breaking off relations onthe basis of “strict reciprocity” after Argentina last week ex-pelled the Honduran ambassador over her support for the mili-tary coup.

Diplomatic relations would now pass through the Israeliembassy in Argentina, they said in a statement.

Argentina’s diplomatic chief responded in Mexico that hiscountry’s diplomats had no plans to leave their embassy in Hon-duras.

“Argentina’s diplomatic staff is in Tegucigalpa and they don’thave a (leaving) date at all,” Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana said.

The interim Honduran leadership headed by RobertoMicheletti has already told Venezuela’s envoys to leave, but theyhave refused.

Argentina last Thursday expelled the Honduran ambassadorto Buenos Aires, Carmen Eleonora Ortez Williams, and Presi-dent Cristina Kirchner has been among the staunchest defend-ers of Zelaya’s right to return to power.

Taiana — part of a delegation from the Organization ofAmerican States (OAS) due to travel shortly to Honduras —earlier told AFP that other countries should do more to helpresolve the political crisis in the impoverished Central Ameri-can country.

Dozens of Hondurans meanwhile met with members of theInter-American Commission on Human Rights, who are on amission to investigate alleged rights violations by the interimgovernment.


HAVANA - A delegation of senior US Roman Catholic clergycalled here Tuesday for closer ties between Washington andHavana following moves by President Barack Obama to im-prove ties with the communist island.

Ties between the Cold-War foes have thawed since Obamabecame president in January, with US nationals of Cuban de-scent now more easily travelling and sending money to Cuba.

However there are no signs yet that the US trade embargo onthe island, in place since 1962, could be lifted.

“The important thing is not to lose the opportunity of in-creased closeness and understanding between our two govern-ments,” said Thomas Wenski, the bishop of Orlando, Florida.

“I believe that the church, here and there, should advocatefor this,” said Wenski, speaking in Spanish at a Havana pressconference Tuesday.

Wenski is part of a delegation of bishops that began a four-day visit to the island on Monday. The delegation includes Bos-ton Cardinal Sean O’Malley and the auxiliary bishop of SanAntonio, Texas, Oscar Cantu.

Wenski said that the Obama administration has been review-ing Washington’s policy towards Cuba “step by step, which maybe a slow process.”

Senior Cuban and US clergy “are trying to influence the po-lices” of both governments, said Wenski, who spoke after ameeting with Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega.

“We should encourage them for there to be freedom of travelas well as a lifting of the embargo,” Wenski said.

O’Malley, who said he has visited Cuba several times overthe past 20 years, said there has been a “notable improvement”of ties between Havana and the church since Pope John PaulII’s visit in January 1998.

The head of the Cuban Episcopal Conference, ArchbishopDionisio Garcia, told AFP that the visit of US clergy is part ofthe pope’s appeal to increase Cuba’s openness to the world.

In April, Obama acknowledged that Washington’s policiestoward Cuba, including a decades-old embargo, had failed, butsaid that issues such as political prisoners, freedom of speechand democracy in Cuba could not be brushed aside in any newapproach toward the country.

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WASHINGTON - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told US President Barack Obama Tuesday that finalstatus talks and not a “temporary solution” suggested by Israel represented the sole route to Middle East peace.

the mire of Middle East peacemakingwhich has confounded his predecessors,was optimistic, despite little progress sofar for his peace effort.

“If all sides are willing to move off ofthe rut that we’re in currently, then I thinkthere is an extraordinary opportunity tomake real progress, but we are not thereyet.”

The US president also praised the Is-raeli government for deciding not to issuenew tenders for settlement construction inthe occupied West Bank until early 2010.

“There has been movement in the rightdirection,” Obama said, saying the Israeligovernment was taking its talks withWashington seriously amid a rare publicshowdown between the two allies.

“My hope is that we are going to seenot just movement from the Israelis, butalso from the Palestinians around issuesof incitement and security, from Arabstates that show their willingness to en-gage Israel.”

But Palestinians and other critics dis-missed the Israeli move as insignificant,pointing out that construction continues onthe ground in a number of settlements inPalestinian territory.

Obama has been pushing Arab statesto make small concessions to Israel to un-lock stalled peace moves and has calledon the Jewish state to halt settlement ex-pansion.

But Mubarak told Obama he would notoffer concessions until Israel took its own“concrete steps,” his spokesman SolimanAwaad said, adding that Arab states be-lieved Netanyahu deliberately slowedpeace efforts during his first spell as Is-raeli leader.

“It’s like an egg and chicken situation,”Awaad said. “He told him it won’t fly. Hereminded him that this was a deja vu situ-ation.”

Awaad also told reporters the US presi-dent hoped to unveil a comprehensiveMiddle East peace plan at around the timeof the UN General Assembly (UNGA)next month.

“Today, Mr. Obama said that hope-fully after (Obama’s Middle East peaceenvoy George) Mitchell and Netanyahumeet next week, the peace blueprintshould be there in the course of nextmonth, in September,” Awaad said.

White House spokesman RobertGibbs denied any knowledge of sucha plan, though he said the UNGAwould be an important chance to forgeprogress. The US State Departmentconfirmed plans for Mitchell to meetNetanyahu before the end of themonth.

During his first White House talkswith Obama, Mubarak poured praise onthe US president over his historic addressto the Muslim world in Cairo in June.

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President Barack Obama leans in to talk with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009,in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

Cuba’s Olympic champion andworld record holder Dayron Robleswas also left uncertain for the semi-finals of the 110m hurdles after bat-tling through his heat with an injuredleft lead leg to eventually clock theslowest time of all qualifiers.

Dibaba, a two-time world cham-pion over the 5000m (2003 and2005) who is also the Olympic10,000m champion, had alreadypulled out of the longer race lastweekend after suffering from anankle injury all season.

Turkey’s Ethiopian-born doubleOlympic silver medallist ElvanAbeylegesse, who pulled up duringthe 10,000m race, also failed to startthe 5000m.

It was instead Dibaba’s arch-ri-val and compatriot Meseret Defar,the reigning world champion, whoset the fastest qualifying time, win-ning her heat in 15min 15.45sec.

“I pushed the pace because I’vebeen a little bit sick and I wanted tosee how my body would respond,”said Defar. “I feel okay. I’m pleasedI qualified because I really want towin the final.”

She will be accompanied inSaturday’s final by a trio of team-

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Cuba’s Dayron Robles competes in a Men’s 110m Hurdles firstround heat during the World Athletics Championships in Berlinon Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009.


TORONTO - Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine upsetthird-ranked Venus Williams 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 in the secondround of a two million-dollar WTA hardcourt tournamenthere on Tuesday.

Williams, who enjoyed a first-round bye, roared to aquick victory in the opening set but by the finish had fallento 0-3 all-time in the Canadian WTA event, the final majortuneup for many players ahead of the US Open.

“I was definitely expecting to play well and to go veryfar in the tournament,” Williams said. “It’s disappointing.”

Williams was not the only seed sent packing.


TORONTO - Carlos Delfino,a guard from Argentina who spentlast season playing in Russia, wastraded Tuesday by the TorontoRaptors to the Milwaukee Bucksin a four-player NBA deal.

The Raptors obtained forwardAmir Johnson and swingmanSonny Weems while the Bucks re-ceived Delfino and Croatian guardRoko Ukic.

“Carlos made it clear he wouldprefer to play elsewhere if he wereto return to the NBA,” Raptorspresident Bryan Colangelo said.

“There were limited sign andtrade scenarios available, but ac-quiring Amir Johnson in this dealgives us another long, talentedyoung big man whose best basket-ball is ahead of him.”

Delfino averaged 9.0 pointsand 4.4 rebounds for Toronto inthe 2007-2008 season while Ukic,who played six seasons in Europebefore reaching the NBA last sea-son, averaged 4.2 points, 2.1 as-sists and 12.4 minutes in 72games.

Johnson, who played four sea-

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BERLIN - Ethiopian world medal hopes were dealt a further blow Wednesday when Olympicchampion and world recorder holder Tirunesh Dibaba pulled out of the women’s 5000m here.

mates - Sentayeju Ejigu, MeselechMelkamu and Genzebe Dibaba.

Kenyans Vivian Cheruiyot, SylviaKibet and Iness Chenonge all alsolooked comfortable while progressingat a sun-baked Olympic Stadium.

There looked like being an upsetbrewing in the 110m hurdles whenRobles found himself in sixth place atthe halfway mark of his heat.

Robles, sporting a bandaged leftthigh under his singlet, fairly labouredover the first five hurdles with his leadleft leg failing to snap out over thehurdle.

But he somehow managed to findthe reserves to pull through the field andsneak into third in 13.67sec.

“I feel pain in my left thigh,” Rob-les admitted. “I don’t know what’s go-ing on. I thought it was only a smallproblem but now I know that I reallyhave a problem.

“I cannot say that I’ll continue to runor not. I’ll talk with the physiotherapistand doctor, and we’ll see.

“I promised Fidel Castro to bringhome the gold medal for him and I wantto keep my promise. I am a warrior andI will fight.”

There was also not a good start tothe day for Robles’ fellow Cuban

Leonel Suarez in the decathlon.The Olympic bronze medallist and

firm favourite for the 10-sport, two-dayevent in the absence of American Olym-pic champion Bryan Clay, only man-aged 11.13sec in the 100m and 7.24min the long jump, ranking 23rd out ofthe 38 starting competitors.

American Trey Hardee ran a verydecent 10.45sec and jumped a best of7.80m to lead the overall standings af-ter two events.

There was also heartbreak for reign-ing world silver medallist MauriceSmith of Jamaica who pulled up dur-ing the 100m with what looked like ahamstring injury.

In qualification for the women’s dis-cus throw, Olympic championStephanie Brown Trafton failed to hitthe minimum standard of 61.50m, man-aging a best of 61.23m but progressingas one of the top 12 finishers. “This willhopefully stimulate me to my best inthe final because I consider myself asan underdog,” the American said.

The opening heats of the women’s200m were cancelled because of thelow number of entrants and those en-tered will now go straight into the quar-ter-finals in the evening session laterWednesday.

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Venus Williams of the United States, reactsduring her 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 loss to KaterynaBondarenko of the Ukraine during the RogersCup tennis tournament in Toronto on Tuesday,Aug. 18, 2009.

Australian Samantha Stosur defeated Russian sixth seedSvetlana Kuznetsova 6-4, 6-3. The Aussie will next faceeither France’s Virginie Razzano or Italy’s Flavia Pennetta.

Williams saw a silver lining in the loss, knowing she hadalmost two weeks to rest before the year’s final Grand Slamevent starts at Flushing Meadows.

“I have to take it as a positive,” Williams said. “Now it’llgive me a chance to rest. It has been a really busy summerfor me.”

Bondarenko, ranked 64th, will face either Hungary’sAgnes Szavay or Poland’s Agnieska Radwanska in the thirdround.

“It’s big because it was against Venus,” Bondarenko said.“I was playing really good. The first set, I didn’t know whatto do with her power. The rest of the time, I just tried to keepthe ball in play.”

Serbian standout Ana Ivanovic advanced to the secondround by rallying to defeat Slovakia’s MagdalenaRybarikova 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Ivanovic, the 21-year-old world number 11 still seekingher first WTA title of the year, made seven double faults butoutlasted her 47th-ranked rival.

“My movement, my shots, everything was working well,but I was trying to play a little too safe,” Ivanovic said.“She’s a good player and she was playing really aggressiveand dominant.”

Ivanovic’s next opponent will be Czech Lucie Safarova,who defeated Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi 6-4, 7-6 (7/3).

China’s Zheng Jie ousted Russia’s Elena Vesnina 6-3, 6-2, and could face Kim Cljisters, making a comeback aftertaking a two-year break to start a family, in a second-roundmatch.

Israel’s Shahar Peer took more than 2 1/2 hours but fi-nally advanced past Romania’s Monica Niculescu 6-4, 4-6,7-6 (7/4).

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Evans made made his farewell ap-pearance in 2005 in the southern Span-ish coastal town of Benalmadena, aserious knee injury from his early daysplaying rugby having caught up withhim.

But after reconstructive surgery —not to mention a quadruple heart by-pass — “El Ingles”, who turned 67 onTuesday, is ready to do battle again andmakes his official comeback on August30 in Benalmadena.

“Inside, I am 25,” joked the manstepping back into an arena now domi-nated by glamorous, athletic youngbullfighters. “I keep myself very fit andas long as I can cope with it I’m goingto carry on,” he told AFP.

The matador, who lives in Marbella,near Benalmadena, is not fazed by be-ing an Englishman in the deeply His-panic culture of bullfighting.

“The bull doesn’t ask to see my birthcertificate, so it’s the same for all of us,”he said during a trip back to his home-land.

Evans reckons his unusual originsmay have even helped him in his un-likely choice of career.

“People maybe would buy a ticketjust to see what I can do, because theycan’t imagine what an Englishman cando with a muleta in his hand,” he said,referring to the matador’s cape.

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LONDON - As if being the only British matador did not makehim enough of an unlikely figure in the Spanish bullring, formerbutcher Frank Evans is returning to fight again at the age of 67.

in a Spanish bullring?Evans recounts his remarkable jour-

ney in “The Last British Bullfighter”,his autobiography which hit the shelvesthis month.

His fascination with bullfightingwas triggered by a trip to Spain in 1963.But it was reading the 1950s autobiog-raphy of Vincent Hitchcock, the firstBritish bullfighter, which inspired himto give it a go himself.

“It suddenly occurred to me that itwas possible for an Englishman to be-come a matador. It began to dawn onme that, if he could do it, then so couldI”, Evans wrote in his memoirs.

At the age of 22, Evans leftManchester and work in his father’sbutcher’s shop to start on his quest inSpain. However, becoming a fully-fledged matador would be a long anddifficult adventure.

After two years in a bullfightingschool in Valencia, he made his debutin 1966 in Montpellier in southernFrance.

“It was a success. I killed the bullquickly,” he said.

Despite his promising start, a short-age of money, equipment and honestpromoters caused Evans to throw in thetowel at the end of the 1960s. He re-turned to England to find work andsettled down with his wife Margaretand their two children.

But becoming a successful business-

man did not dampen his passion forbullfighting, so in 1979 he returned toSpain and seized every opportunity toget into the bullring.

“I’m not a bullfighter for financialpurposes,” he explained.

“I do it because I have a vocationfor it. I love doing it, the people involvedin it, I love all the travelling you do, thetraining; I just love the whole thing.”

His efforts finally paid off in 1991,when, at the age of 49, he took the“alternativa” — earning the right tofight mature bulls as a fully-fledgedmatador.

After his “alternativa”, Evans spentanother 10 hard years struggling tomake his name, until he received a callfrom a promoter who offered him acontract in Benalmadena.

Although he was well into his fif-ties, it was the springboard for his ca-reer, with fights in Spain, France andMexico.

“Most people would have stoppedfighting by then, and all of a sudden Iwas given my opportunity and after 40years I became an overnight success,”he said, adding that he reached a ca-reer-high ranking of 63 in 2003.

Just as they did against Hull onSaturday, Chelsea showed admirableresilience on Tuesday to recover af-ter Sunderland poured forward in theopening 45 minutes at the Stadiumof Light and took a surprise leadthrough Darren Bent.

Ancelotti insisted that he was notworried at any stage of the first half,although his gestures on thetouchline occasionally suggestedotherwise.

But, eventually, Chelsea provedthat class usually comes out on topin Premier League as goals fromMichael Ballack, Frank Lampardand Deco sealed the points.

Ancelotti said: “I am very happy.I thought we played very well in thesecond half. I know we went behind,but we had control of the match andgood possession.

“There wasn’t a lot of shootingfrom us, but we had control of them.Sunderland were strong in defencein the first half and applied pressure.

“They ran a lot and they weretired, which made it more difficultfor them to control us.”

Chelsea have now gone behind inall three of their matches this season,including the Community Shieldagainst Manchester United, but


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This handout picture obtained on August 14, 2009 shows Brit-ish matador Frank Evans. As if being the only British matadordid not make him enough of an unlikely figure in the Spanishbullring, former butcher Frank Evans is returning to fight againat the age of 67. Evans made made his farewell appearance in2005 in the southern Spanish coastal town of Benalmadena, aserious knee injury from his early days playing rugby havingcaught up with him.


SUNDERLAND - Carlo Ancelotti believes Chelsea’s 3-1 winat Sunderland gave an indication that his stars are determinedto fight for the Premier League title.

Ancelotti said: “I am not concernedabout coming from behind.

“It can happen in football andwhat’s important is to show a goodreaction and not be afraid when youdo go behind.

“We have been behind in threematches, but still showed good con-trol.”

There was much to admire in theway Sunderland played, butSunderland boss Steve Bruce re-served most of his praise for the westLondon club who are certain to bechallenging for the title again.

Bruce said: “Sometimes you justhave to admit you’ve been wellbeaten by a very good team. It seemedat times that we’d had a man sent off.

“We gave everything we couldgive, but couldn’t cope with the waythey moved the ball. It was a verydifficult evening for us.

“We all aspire to be the best butwhen you see a performance like thatyou can see why they will be there orthereabouts in every competition.”

Chelsea took control of the secondhalf and Ballack equalised beforeLampard’s penalty and Deco’s strikeerased the memory of their first halfdifficulties.

“Darren got a wonderful goal and

we were very pleased at half time,”said Bruce.

“But Chelsea were terrific andplayed to their maximum. They’re thereal deal and that’s why they are topof the tree. Anybody who beats themwill win the league.”

Ancelotti made four changes to the

team that beat Hull and the formerAC Milan coach added: “I changedit because I have very good qualityplayers and I want to use them be-cause we have a lot of matches. I wantto keep them fresh and in good con-dition.”

He also ruled out any chance of

selling Deco, who was outstanding.“He doesn’t want to change and wedon’t want him to change,” Ancelottisaid.

“Deco is working very well now.This is a very important year for himbefore the World Cup. He played verywell - for himself and for the team.”

Ten-man Sporting hold FiorentinaChampions League play-off roundhere on Tuesday.

The Ital ians wil l now befavourites to progress to the com-petition group stage following

next week’s second leg in Flo-rence.

The visitors took an early leadwhen Juan Vargas lashed home alow shot from outside the area.

Alberto Gilardino had crossedfrom the right and the Peruviantook the ball on his chest, bundledthrough a weak tackle and senthome a strike on six minutes thatRui Patricio got a hand to butcouldn’t keep out.

Fiorentina were lucky not tohave a man sent off, though, whenAlessandro Gamberini tangledwith Sporting’s Brazilian forwardLiedson.

Gamberini appeared to lash outwith his hand in Liedson’s neckbut was only shown a yellow card,as was Sporting’s Montenegrostriker Simon Vukcevic, whoshoved the Italian in the chest fol-lowing the original fracas.

That was followed by a spell ofhome dominance with Evertontarget Joao Moutinho forcingFrench goalkeeper Sebastien Freyinto a sprawling low save.

Former Tottenham forwardHelder Postiga went close againin first half stoppage time butcurled his effort just past the up-right.

The Portuguese predictablycame out firing at the start of thesecond period and deservedlydrew level on 58 minutes when

Vukcevic pounced on a kind de-flection in the box to slide homepast Frey.

However, the Montenegranthen stupidly removed his shirt incelebration and was promptlyshown a second yellow card andsent to the stands.

Even so, the hosts extendedtheir lead on 66 minutes as MiguelVeloso thrashed home an unstop-pable shot into the top corner fromoutside the box.

That opened up the game withFiorentina pushing forward for anequaliser and Sporting looking tohit them on the counter.

Riccardo Montolivo cameclose to restoring parity as he ranthrough two tackles but then shottoo close to Patricio.

However he then fashioned LaViola’s stunning leveller asGilardino took his chip into thebox on his chest before proddinghome a volley with the outside ofhis right boot.

Substitute Stevan Jovetic al-most snatched a winner for thevisitors three minutes from timebut after leaving two men on theseat of their pants in the box, heshot straight at Patricio.AFP PHOTO/ FRANCISCO LEONG

Fiorentina’s Alberto Gilardino (L) kicks the ball toscore 2-2 against Sporting during their first-legChampions League play-off football match atAlvalade Stadium in Lisbon on August 18, 2009.

AP Photo/Scott Heppell

Chelsea’s Frank Lampard, right, has a shot toward’s goal past Sunderland’s Phil Bardsley, left,during their English Premier League soccer match at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, En-gland, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009.


MIAMI - Hurricane Bill, the firstof the Atlantic storm season, strength-ened late Tuesday to a major Cat-egory Three status with wind speedsnear 125 miles (205 kilometers) perhour, the National Hurricane Centersaid.

The hurricane was moving in anorth-westerly direction, and on itscurrent track is projected to turn northand largely miss the US coastline.

An Air Force reserve hurricanehunter plane that flew into the Atlan-tic storm indicated “that Bill hasstrengthened and maximum sus-

Hurricane Bill strengthens to Category Three statustained winds have increased to near 125MPH,” the center said in an interimadvisory.

That made Bill “a Category 3 Hur-ricane on the (five-level) Saffir/Simpson hurricane scale,” it said in abrief statement.

The Miami-based Hurricane Cen-ter said earlier that at 2100 GMT Tues-day, the hurricane was located about635 miles (1,025 kilometers) east of theLeeward Islands and heading west-northwestward toward the US main-land at nearly 16 mph (26 kph).

“West-northwest motion is expectedto continue for tonight followed by aturn toward the northwest on Wednes-

day,” forecasters said.The hurricane’s projected track is in

the Atlantic, “well to the northeast” ofthe Caribbean’s Leeward Islands.

The Hurricane Center’s extendedforecast puts the far northeastern UScoastline on the eastern edge of Bill’sbroad “cone of uncertainty” by Sunday.

Tropical Storm Claudette, whichblew up in the Gulf of Mexico onSunday and lashed Florida resortswith strong winds and heavy rain,weakened Monday to a tropical de-pression as it moved across the south-ern United States.

Tropical Storm Ana, the firstnamed storm of the season, also lost

its punch as it moved quickly atmaximum winds of 34 mph (55kph) across the Caribbean, with alltropical storm watches discontin-ued in the region.

In the Pacific, Tropical StormGuillermo was moving northwestat about 20 mph (33 kph) at 0200GMT Wednesday.

A day after weakening rapidlyfrom a hurricane, the storm was 570miles (917 km) northeast of Hilo,Hawaii, according to the CentralPacific Hurricane Center.

The Atlantic hurricane seasonbegan on June 1 and ends on No-vember 30.

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NEW YORK - A 1984 MichaelJackson portrait by iconoclastic USartist Andy Warhol was auctioned for“millions” of dollars in New York onTuesday, less than two months afterthe pop icon’s tragic death.

“The auction was quite success-ful,” Janet Lehr, owner of LongIsland’s Vered Art Gallery, told AFP.

“We can’t talk about price. Wedon’t report price. It’s in the rangeof millions.”

AFP PHOTO/VARED GALLERY/HANDOUT

This handout image courtesy ofVared Gallery in New York showsa 1984 synthetic 30-inch by 26-inch polymer painting of MichaelJackson by Andy Warhol.

Warhol portrait of Michael Jacksonauctioned for ‘millions’

The gallery earlier estimated thatthe portrait, which measures 30 by26 inches (76.2 by 66 centimeters),could fetch 10 million dollars.

The deal, Lehr said, was a goodone for both the buyer and the seller.

“A speculator outdid the art col-lectors,” she said, without reveal-ing the buyer’s identity. “He tookadvantage of the situation.”

The portrait was purchased for278,500 dollars in May at theSotheby’s auction house, and thebuyer decided to sell it after

Jackson’s sudden death on June 25shocked the world and sparked re-newed interest in the tragic life ofthe “King of Pop.”

The auction was to conclude onJuly 12, but Vered Art stopped thesale after receiving a massiveamount of inquiries. The galleryhad received offers online and bytelephone.

In recent years, other Warholportraits of Jackson have found nobuyers, including one put on theauction block in London in 2008.

AFP PHOTO/HO/MALAYSIAN POLICE DEPARTMENT

In a picture released by the Malaysian Police department Malaysian firefighter vessel sprays water onto a burning oil tanker,MT Formosa Product Brick, near the coast of Port Dickson, 50km south of Kuala Lumpur, on August 19, 2009, after it collidedwith another vessel. Fire crews on August 19 battled a blaze aboard a Taiwanese oil tanker carrying 58,000 tonnes of naphthafuel in the Malacca Strait after it collided with another ship, Malaysian police said. Nine Chinese crew members were missingafter the tanker collided with a Greek-managed bulk carrier vessel on the vital Asian shipping route.

AUTOSPORT understands thatKovalainen’s option for next year withMcLaren has now lapsed, although theteam has not ruled out retaining theFinn. Team principal MartinWhitmarsh has made it clear howeverthat Kovalainen needs to deliver morein the next few races than he has shownso far this season - and the Finn wasinformed of the situation during a fac-tory visit on Wednesday.

“Heikki is doing, as a team player,a fantastic job in this team,” Whitmarshsaid in a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes‘Phone-In’ media call. “On his ownevaluation he has not raced as well ashe would have liked and we would haveliked him to this year.

Brno- Honda riders Dani Pedrosa andAndrea Dovizioso declared themselvespleased with the progress the team madeduring Monday’s test day at Brno.

Pedrosa finished the day third fastest,behind Yamaha riders Jorge Lorenzo andValentino Rossi, while Dovizioso wasfifth behind Loris Capirossi’s Suzuki.

Despite the day’s meaningful runningbeing liminted by rain in the afternoon,the pair sampled several new parts andexpect the developments to help themmake a push to catch Yamaha in the re-maining races this year.

“It was a useful test session today,even though the rain tried to mess withour plans, and I hope that what we’velearnt can help us for the next races,” saidPedrosa.

“In the morning we worked on someset-up improvements from the race week-end and we were able to find some morespeed. After lunch we were set to trysome new suspension components,which we managed to do when the track

AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz

Spain’s Dani Pedrosa rides his Honda during the MotoGP test session at the Brnocircuit in Brno, Czech Republic, on Monday, Aug. 17, 2009.

Honda boosted by test progressdried after the rain.

“Of course it takes time to perfect theset-up when you try new things, but our pacewas quite good and the feeling was prom-ising. Overall, this was a worthwhile test.”

Dovizioso was encouraged after test-ing development suspension parts for thefirst time and was also happy with thegains.

“It was good to get some testing timetoday because the new rules mean anyextra track time is very valuable,” he said.“It was an interesting day because wetried quite a few set-up options includingsome different suspension parts, and thiswas a first for me.

“Because of the limited time, wecouldn’t evaluate their full potential, butthe initial feedback was positive. We alsocontinued to work with the set-up for thenew swingarm we used this weekend andmanaged to improve our speed.

“Honda is working very hard for theremaining races and also for next year,and the team is fully committed.”

Kovalainen toldto raise his gameGermany - Heikki Kovalainen has been told that he needs to

raise his game over the remainder of the season if he is to haveany chance of keeping hold of his seat at McLaren in 2010.

“I was frankly just talking to himon the subject a few minutes before thiscall. He is working hard...

“A lot of us want to see Heikki getsome good results this year, and thatwill ensure that he remains with us.That is certainly our wish. His goalgoing into Valencia this weekend is towin - and he is capable of winning therace this weekend.

“He has been a good qualifier, hehas done some good qualifying times,and he is capable of qualifying welland winning this race. So that is whathe is going to focus on, and I’ve justhad that conversation with him. Thenon Sunday evening he will start think-ing about Spa, and that is what we want

Nine Chinese crew members weremissing after the tanker collided witha Greek-managed bulk carrier vesselon the vital Asian shipping route.

Stricken Taiwan tanker ablazein Malacca Strait: policeAgence France Presse

KUALA LUMPUR - Fire crews on Wednesday battled a blaze aboard a Taiwanese oil tankercarrying 58,000 tonnes of naphtha fuel in the Malacca Strait after it collided with anothership, Malaysian police said.

“The MT Formosa ProductBrick is on fire and is now listingon its left side. We fear it maysink,” local marine police chief

Rizal Ramli told AFP.“The collision happened last

night in clear weather off PortDickson. We have rescued 16 crew

members, mainly of Chinese nation-ality,” he said, adding that two of therescued crew were Taiwanese.

The police chief of the southernstate of Negeri Sembilan, OsmanSaleh, told AFP the ship was loadedwith 58,000 tonnes of naphtha andwas heading for South Korea viaSingapore.

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him to focus on - not all the specula-tion.”

In a boost to Kovalainen’s situation,McLaren is adamant it has not begundiscussions with any other driver yetabout a seat in 2010, despite freshrumours linking Nico Rosberg with theoutfit now that the German’s previouslikely destination BMW Sauber is outof F1. “Speculation is normal,” saidWhitmarsh. “We are not commentingon it, but I can confirm that contrary tosome of the speculation we are not indiscussions with any other drivers out-side this team at the moment.”

And, denying any talk that McLarenwas under pressure to take a Germandriver to appease engine partnerMercedes-Benz, Whitmarsh said: “Interms of nationality, obviously somenationalities from a marketing perspec-tive are more convenient.

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