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In Tahrir Square, a tent city blooms

Thousands ofNike Air Griffey Max pro-democracy protesters are making Cairo's Tahrir Square their home until all of their demands are met.

The famous and Nike Air Max T-Zone LEiconic roundabout, the focal point of the uprising early this year that forced the departure of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, is again packed Nike Air Max Triax 94 LEwith activists disgruntled by what they see as the slow pace of change.

They have set up camp in the center of theNike Air Max Tailwind square in what has become known among them as Tent City. The show of force began after a major demonstration Friday in the square.

Many have brought TV sets, laptops, books, Nike Air Max Wright sleeping bags and clothes with them, suggesting they plan to stay for the long haul. One man even installed a satellite dish beside his tent, and the organizing committee has brought in dozens of fire extinguishers.

EU leaders pledge to do what is needed to help Greece

European Union leaders have reaffirmed their commitment to help Greece out of its current debt woes and maintain EU financial stability. Nike Air Max 2010European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said there was "a real will of the member states to do what is necessary". His comments came at the end of the first day of an EU summit in Brussels. The Greek parliament has to pass fresh austerity measures next week before the country can gain vital bail-out funds. Greece's government is proposing additional spending cuts worth 28bn euros (￡25bn) over five years. If these are passed then Greece will get its next 12bn-euro instalment from the current 110bn euro bail-out package from fellow eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund. coach handbags outlet Without this money Greece will default on its next loan payments due in mid-July. However, many economists think it will be difficult for Greece to avoid default at some time in the future. No plan B Also speaking at the end of the first day in Brussels, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said the EU was moving to make it easier for Greece to access European Union development funds to help boost its economy. Nike Air Max 2003 Earlier on Thursday, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker urged Athens to meet its commitments under the bail-out programme. "All conditions must be met," said Mr Juncker, who also chairs the groups of eurozone finance ministers. "You can't let anyone believe there is a Plan B. If Greece does what it has to do, we will do what we have to do." Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said his government was committed to pushing the austerity plans - which are deeply unpopular with the Greek people - through parliament next week. replica coach outlet "Greece is committed, strongly committed, to continue a very important programme for major changes, radical changes, to make our economy viable," he said.

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Russia's President Medvedev "won't stand against Putin"

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said he finds it "hard to imagine" that he and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would run against each other at next year's presidential election. Cheap Women Nike Dunk SB High Competition between them could, he said, "be harmful". But, speaking to the Financial Times, Mr Medvedev declined to confirm whether he would stand for a second term. He said reports that there was a growing rivalry between the two men were "absolutely inappropriate". The president's statements were full of mixed messages, says the BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow. When asked in the interview if he intended to seek a second term in the Kremlin, the Russian president said "any leader who holds the post of president simply must want to run" Nike Air Max 24-7. But - he added - "it was another issue" whether he would "take this decision or not". 'Same political force' He appeared to rule out standing against Mr Putin, if the prime minister decided to put forward his candidacy. "Vladimir Putin and myself - and Vladimir Putin is my colleague and an old friend - represent, to a large extent, one and the same political force. And therefore competition between us may be detrimental to [our] tasks and goals," he told the FT. Mr Medvedev repeated his vow to modernise the country, and said this depended on expanding political competition. Nike outlet He warned that "in the absence of political competition the foundations of a market economy were beginning to disappear." He hinted at reversing some of the political centralisation and state control of the economy put in place under Mr Putin. "In some countries there is a rather successful coexistence of market-oriented economies and limited political competition," he said. "This is not for us." In recent months President Medvedev has grown more critical of his prime minister, says our correspondent Steve Rosenberg. Nike Air Max 1But, he adds, it is Mr Putin who is widely considered to be the most powerful politician in Russia, and most analysts believe it will be Mr Putin who gets to decide which of them will represent the party of power at next year's presidential election.

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Somalia: PM Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo resigns

Operators of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have suspended an operation to clean contaminated water hours after it began due to a rapid rise in radiation. Nike outlet Some 110,000 tonnes of water have built up during efforts to cool reactors hit by the 11 March earthquake and tsunami. The contaminated water, enough to fill 40 Olympic-sized swimming pools, has been at risk of spilling into the sea. The disaster caused meltdown at three of the reactors, and radiation leaks. It is the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986. Nike Air Max 90-BootsThe powerful earthquake and the tsunami it generated are now known to have killed more than 15,280 people, while nearly 8,500 remain unaccounted for. Radioactive sludge? A spokesman for the plant operators, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), said engineers were trying to find the cause of the jump in radiation levels. "The level of radiation at a machine to absorb caesium has risen faster than our initial projections," the spokesman said. He added that until they knew what was causing the rising levels they would not know when the operation would be able to resume. Nike sb shoes"But I'd say it's not something that would take weeks," he added. Dealing with the radioactive water is a key step to bringing the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant under control, reports the BBC's Roland Buerk from Tokyo. It is the rainy season in Japan and the pools of contaminated water could overflow, adding to radiation already released into the sea, adds our correspondent. Earlier this week, officials had warned the radioactive pools were in danger of spilling into the sea within a week. Nike Air Max 93The Fukushima power station went into meltdown after its cooling systems were crippled by March' s devastating earthquake and tsunami. The teams at the plant suspect the radiation rise may be linked to sludge flowing into the machinery intended to absorb caesium or the pipes surrounding it. The tsunami destroyed both power and back-up generators at the plant, breaking the cooling systems. The three unstable reactors are supposed to be brought to "a stable and cold shutdown" by January 2012. Despite the setbacks Tepco says it is still on track to meet that deadline. nike dunk shoes

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Jailed Iran activist Hoda Saber dies on hunger strike

Jailed Iranian journalist and veteran activist Hoda Saber has died of a heart attack after going on hunger strike. D&G shoes Mr Saber, who was in his 50s, began his strike on 2 June to protest about the death of fellow opposition figure Haleh Sahabi, during an incident at the funeral of her activist father. Mr Saber was jailed after the disputed 2009 elections that saw President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad re-elected. He had also served several prison terms since 2000. The opposition website Kaleme.com said: "Security forces on Friday transferred him from Evin prison to Modarres hospital due to cardiac complication induced by his hunger strike. Coach 2011 New Arrival "But the damage of the cardiac complication... was too severe." Haleh Sahabi, 55, died on 1 June during a confrontation with security forces at the funeral of her father, Ezatollah Sahabi. She had been allowed out of prison to attend the ceremony. There are reports that she was hit by security forces and died of a heart attack. Iranian officials denied any clashes with security had taken place at his funeral. Nike outlet Ezatollah Sahabi, a leading dissident, died of stroke on 30 May at the age of 81.

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South Korean football players charged in fixing scandal

Prosecutors in South Korea have charged 10 football players for allegedly fixing results in the country's top professional league. Kids Dunk High Nine K-League players are accused of taking bribes to influence the outcome of games in April, prosecutors say. Eight of the players charged play for the Daejeon Citizen team, which lost a match in April. Brokers and players from other teams have also been charged. South Korea's sports minister has said penalties will be increased for match-fixing in all sports. 'Possible jail terms' replica coach handbagsOne Daejeon Citizen team member is accused of receiving 120 million won (£67,000; $110,000) and distributing it to seven others, prosecutors say. The team lost to the Pohang Steelers on 6 April by a score of 0-3. Another player, from the Pohang Steelers, is accused of allegedly betting on the match after finding out the outcome would be rigged. The tenth player, from Gwangju FC, was charged with receiving 100 million won from a broker who tried to rig a match with Busan I'Park in April. Last week, hundreds of players, coaches, referees and officials signed a pledge to stamp out match-fixing and other illegal activities. Nike outletSports minister Park Sun-kyoo has said in addition to fines and possible jail terms, players would face a lifetime ban and their clubs would lose points if they were found to be involved in match-fixing.

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E. coli: EU raises compensation offer to farmers

The EU has increased to 210m euros (£187m) its offer of compensation to farmers who have lost income due to an outbreak of E. coli. D&G shoesIt had initially offered 150m euros, but EU Farm Commissioner Dacian Ciolos raised the figure after coming under pressure from major producers. The offer is still a fraction of farmers' estimates of their losses, which go as high as 417m euros a week. The outbreak has so far left at least 26 dead and infected 2,400. Cases of the rare strain of enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) have been concentrated in the northern German city of Hamburg. replica coach handbagsGermany's health minister has said infections are dropping significantly, though he warned that more deaths were expected. Health authorities in Germany erroneously blamed Spanish cucumbers, before an organic bean sprout farm in northern Germany came under suspicion. Some samples from the farm have tested negative, with results of other tests still pending. Scientists and German officials have warned that the origin of the infection might never be found. 'Deep crisis' Nike outlet The compensation offered by the EU covers the period from the beginning of the outbreak late last month until the end of June. "We don't know how things are going to evolve. We cannot predict," Mr Ciolos said. "At the end of June we will see where we stand." Producers of fruit and vegetables have lobbied to be compensated in full for their losses, backed by major producer countries like Spain, Italy and France. The BBC's Chris Morris reports from Brussels that Spain in particular has said it expects 100% compensation for its farmers after Spanish cucumbers were initially held responsible for the outbreak. European farmers' federation Copa-Cogeca quickly rejected the improved EU offer. Coach Sunglasses "More funds must be made available to help pull the sector out of this deep crisis," said the group's Secretary-General Pekka Pesonen. Under fire for its handling of the crisis both inside Germany and from the wider EU, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government held an emergency summit in Berlin on Wednesday to assess the situation. German Health Minister Daniel Bahr was joined by Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner, EU Health and Consumer Affairs Commissioner John Dalli, government representatives from each of Germany's 16 states, and health experts. 'Get to grips' Mr Dalli avoided publicly criticising the German response, calling instead for European states to co-operate over their response. Cheap Nike Dunk SB Mid"This is not the time for criticism and recriminations, but the time to focus our efforts at all levels in order to get to grips on this crisis," he said. Mr Bahr defended Germany's reaction. "The... outbreak in Germany is so severe that we have to react very quickly to announce these recommendations and we still can't give the all-clear," he said. He also said Germany's health and food safety bodies would undertake an "immediate evaluation" of how they co-operate. Critics have argued that there are too many different agencies involved in Germany and that this has led to a bungled investigation. Coach BootsGermany's government is still warning consumers to avoid eating raw foods such as tomatoes, cucumbers, salad and bean sprouts. The country's national institution responsible for disease control and prevention, the Robert Koch Institute, reported 318 new E.coli-related cases on Wednesday. "There will be new cases and unfortunately we have to expect more deaths, but the number of new infections is dropping significantly," said Mr Bahr.

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UK doctors begin pioneering asthma treatment

Doctors in Manchester and Glasgow have begun treating NHS asthma patients with a pioneering treatment described as "melting away" muscle in the airways.
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Instead of using drugs such as steroids, a wire probe is inserted into the lungs and then heats the tissue.

Currently, the procedure - called bronchial thermoplasty - is not being used anywhere else in Europe.

The technique uses 10-second bursts of radio waves which heat the lining of the lungs to 65 degrees Celsius.

That destroys some of the muscle tissue which constricts during an asthma attack, making breathing difficult.
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Dr Rob Niven, senior lecturer in Respiratory Medicine at the University Hospital of South Manchester, who led the team carrying out the procedure at Wythenshawe Hospital, said

"bronchial thermoplasty is the first non-drug treatment for asthma and it may be a new option for patients with severe asthma who have symptoms despite use of drug therapies."

"The operation went according to plan and our patient has responded well. It will be a little while before we are able to say it's been a complete success, but I am cautiously

optimistic," he said.

The procedure follows six years of trials in the UK, Canada and South America. Patients in the United States have been receiving the treatment for some months already.
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Bronchial thermoplasty will not be used on children, says Dr Niven, and its effectiveness decreases as patients age.
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Tens of thousands of patients across the UK with the most severe forms of asthma stand to benefit most from the treatment.

Symptoms can worsen to begin with, as the heat also causes damage to the sensitive lung lining. But once this is repaired doctors say asthmatics can be helped for up to five

years.

However, cost is a potential problem - it costs around £10,000 per patient, although savings could be made in the longer term through fewer hospital admissions and reductions in

the costs of medicines.

It will be up to the local NHS bodies, which buy care for patients, to decide on whether to fund it, possibly on a case-by-case basis.
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According to the campaign group Asthma UK, 5.4 million people in the UK have asthma and around 250,000 of these have severe asthma.

The group's Chief Medical Adviser, Professor Ian Pavord, said of bronchial thermoplasty: "In some people with severe asthma, the symptoms of their asthma have been improved and

the risk of them having an asthma attack has been reduced, so it is encouraging to see that the technique has now been carried out outside of clinical trials."

"However, this kind of procedure will not work for everyone so we would encourage people with asthma to discuss various treatment options with their GP to find the best way for

them to keep their asthma managed and under control."

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Pembroke refinery explosion: casualties injured in fire

Emergency services are investigating an explosion and fire at an oil refinery in west Wales. Cheap Nike Dunk Low The Welsh ambulance service confirmed some people had been injured in the blast at the Pembroke Chevron plant but had not been able to confirm how many. There are unconfirmed reports that two people were killed when two petrol tankers collided inside the refinery. Milford Haven coastguards reported a "blast large enough to shake the windows" with "black smoke in the air". Chevron was still in the process of accounting for all personnel. One man has been flown by air ambulance to Morriston Hospital in Swansea. Cheap Nike Dunk SB High A hospital spokeswoman said no information on his condition was available and no further casualties were expected there. The Press Association quoted sources as saying that two people had been killed in the explosion. A spokesman for Welsh Ambulance Services confirmed that paramedics had dealt with casualties at the scene and the air ambulance had been deployed. But because of the heat of the flames, he said it was not yet certain how many people had been hurt. The Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service sent 10 engines to the scene and brought the incident under control within an hour and a half. Cheap Women Nike Dunk SB HighEyewitnesses reported hearing a "massive bang" and saw plumes of black smoke following the blast. Phil Horne was in his back garden in Milford Haven, on the opposite side of the waterway, at the time of the incident. "I heard a large explosion, turned around and saw a large fireball disappearing into the sky," he said. "It went about halfway up the chimney stack of the refinery." Liz Herbert, who also lives on the other side of the haven, said: "I heard a massive bang and saw a huge plume of thick black smoke. Cheap Nike Dunk SB Low"It was really frightening." In a statement Chevron said: "Emergency services were called and responded immediately and remain on the scene. The fire has been extinguished. "We are taking appropriate action to respond to the situation. We are still in the process of accounting for all personnel." Milford Haven Port Authority said it was aware of the incident but it was not affecting any ship movements on the waterway. It said it had two pilot boats on standby if needed but their assistance had not been requested. Cheap Women Nike Dunk SB LowThe refinery was formerly known as Texaco, later rebranded Chevron-Texaco and known as Chevron since around 2005. In March, Chevron confirmed Texan oil company Valero Energy had agreed to buy the refinery for $730m (£446m) and pay a further $1bn (£611m) for the stocks of oil, petrol and other products on site. The site, which can refine 220,000 barrels of crude oil a day into petrol and other products, has yet to change hands.

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Smelly chemicals confuse mosquitoes

Chemicals which interfere with a mosquito's ability to sniff out humans have been developed by US researchers, according to research in Nature. Coach Madison-Handbags It is hoped they could be used to develop the next generation of mosquito traps and repellents. A UK expert said the discovery could be a "major step forward" if the chemicals were safe and cheap. Female mosquitoes use carbon dioxide in people's exhaled breath to find their next meal. They can detect minute changes in the concentration of the gas and track it back to a human breath. cheap nike shoes storeThis knowledge is already used in carbon dioxide traps, but requires dry ice or gas cylinders - which mean they are rarely used in developing countries. Researchers have been looking for chemicals which can disrupt or confuse a mosquito's carbon dioxide sense. Deception Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, tested smelly chemicals on three species of mosquito: Anopheles gambiae, which spreads malaria; Culex quinquefasciatus, which spreads filariasis and West Nile virus; and Aedes aegypti which spreads dengue and yellow fever. Between them these insects are thought to spread disease to half a billion people each year and cause millions of deaths. coach outletThe researchers identified three groups of chemicals, which disrupt a mosquito's carbon dioxide receptors. One mimicked carbon dioxide and could be used as bait in insect traps, another prevented the mosquito from detecting carbon dioxide and the last group tricked the mosquito's brain into thinking it was surrounded by huge quantities of the gas - so it could not pick which way to go. Professor Anandasankar Ray, from the University of California, Riverside, said: "These chemicals offer powerful advantages as potential tools for reducing mosquito-human contact, and can lead to the development of new generations of insect repellents and lures. "The identification of such odour molecules, which can work even at low concentrations, and are therefore economical, could be enormously effective in compromising the ability of mosquitoes to seek humans, thus helping control the spread of mosquito-borne diseases." Nike Dunk High Carbon dioxide is not the only way mosquitoes can find their dinner however, as the smell of human sweat and skin can also be used. Dr James Logan, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: "Whilst this is an exciting study, the authors are yet to show that the chemicals are capable of protecting a human being from being bitten. "Although carbon dioxide is an important cue for mosquitoes, we know that mosquitoes respond differently to a trap releasing carbon dioxide than to a real human being, which releases a complex mixture of many attractive chemicals, heat, visual cues and moisture. Coach Hobo Handbags"The key question is - do the 'response modifying odours' actually protect a human being?" The chemicals also need to be used at high concentrations, which could be hazardous to human health. The researchers say their next step is to develop safer chemicals. Dr Nikolai Windbichler, from Imperial College London, said work needed to be done to ensure they were safe and could be produced at low cost. He added: "These compounds have novel and desirable properties because they can confuse the mosquitoes' host seeking behaviour even when the substances are no longer present or the mosquitoes have left the area of application. "This, if realised, could be a major step forward and could protect large groups of people or large areas, something that is not currently feasible with existing repellents." Nike Dunk Low Mark Stopfer, from the US National Institutes of Health, said the study offered "a promising line of defence."

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Serbia extradites Ratko Mladic to The Hague

Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic has been flown to the Netherlands, where he is to be tried at a UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. coach outlet He was put on a plane in Belgrade shortly after a Serbian court rejected an appeal against his extradition. Gen Mladic faces genocide charges over atrocities committed during the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s. His lawyer had argued he was too ill to be tried. But Serbian doctors said he was fit enough to be extradited. The 69-year-old was seized last Thursday in Lazarevo village, north of Belgrade, having been on the run for 16 years. Nike outletOn Tuesday, a Belgrade court ruled that Gen Mladic was fit enough to be handed over to the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. Serbian Justice Minister Snezana Malovic later announced she had signed the extradition papers and that Gen Mladic was already on the plane. Advertisement Omarska concentration camp victim Kemal Pervanic: "My guards were my former teachers" The BBC's Mark Lowen in Belgrade says Gen Mladic's departure was even faster than most had predicted. coach factory outlet It seems the Serbian government acted to preempt any protests by his supporters by not making any announcement about the extradition until he was gone, our correspondent adds. Candle and flowers The Serbian government jet touched down at Rotterdam The Hague Airport at about 1945 local time (1745 GMT). It taxied from the runway into a hangar, whose doors were quickly closed. Gen Mladic was then taken to the detention facility of the ICTY. He is now due to receive a full medical examination, before appearing in court in the coming days. Nike sb shoes He is accused of crimes against humanity, including the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of at least 7,500 Muslim men and boys. Earlier on Tuesday, Gen Mladic had been allowed to visit the grave of his daughter Ana, albeit under heavy security. Ana Mladic committed suicide in 1994 aged 23, reportedly shooting herself with her father's favourite pistol after she read about his alleged crimes in a magazine. During the 20-minute visit to her grave, Gen Mladic lit a candle and left a small white bouquet of flowers with a red rose in the middle, said Serbia's deputy war crimes prosecutor, Bruno Vekaric. Gen Mladic's arrest is considered crucial to Serbia's bid to join the European Union. coach outlet His son Darko Mladic said his father had told him he was not responsible for the killings in Srebrenica, committed after Bosnian Serb troops overran the town in July 1995. Following the arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in 2008, Gen Mladic became the most prominent Bosnian war crimes suspect still at large. He was indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague in 1995 for genocide over Srebrenica - the worst single atrocity in Europe since World War II - and other alleged crimes. Having lived freely in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, he disappeared after the arrest of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in 2001. nike dunk shoesGen Mladic is still considered a war hero by many Serbs. On Tuesday thousands of people rallied in his support in Banja Luka, the capital of the Bosnian Serb entity, Republika Srpska. "General Ratko Mladic is our brave son who led Republika Srpska's army and us soldiers to defend it," Bosnian Serb veteran Branislav Predojevic told AFP news agency. On Sunday, thousands of people rallied in Belgrade against his arrest, condemning the pro-Western government of President Boris Tadic for arresting him.

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Greenpeace boards Cairn Energy oil drill in Greenland

Three Greenpeace campaigners have scaled an oil rig off the coast of Greenland in a bid to stop a Scottish company drilling. coach outlet The 53,000-tonne Leiv Eiriksson rig is run by Edinburgh-based Cairn Energy. Greenpeace said the trio were hanging from the underside of the rig in an Arctic survival pod with enough supplies to stay there for 10 days. They hope their action will prevent the start of deep-water drilling 100 miles (160km) west of the Greenland coast. Cairn Energy said the rig would continue towards the approved drilling location and if necessary ask the police to remove the activists when it reaches its destination. Women Nike Dunk LowGreenpeace International oil campaigner Ben Ayliffe is on board the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, within sight of the rig and the survival pod. He said: "We boarded the rig a few hours before it was due to reach its Arctic drill site and now it can't start operations. "We are preventing it from drilling because an oil spill up here would be nearly impossible to deal with due to the freezing conditions and remote location. "A BP-style blow-out off the Greenland coast would make the Deepwater Horizon clean-up look simple." coach outlet The climbers said their camp was a few metres from the huge drill-bit. Earlier this week, the group staged a protest outside the oil company's Edinburgh headquarters. The demonstration was to protest against the oil firm's plans to begin drilling four new exploratory oil wells near Baffin Bay, Greenland this summer. Cairn Energy is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company with principal interests in India and Greenland. Ove Karl Berthelsen, a member of the Greenland government, said: "Naalakkersuisut [the Cabinet] strongly opposes the action by Greenpeace against drilling after oil in Greenland. Women Nike Dunk Low "We will not be stopped by Greenpeace actions. Greenland has a right to develop a basis for livelihood for the population here as they do in other countries. "It must be stressed, that the exploration complies with very high standards for safety and environmental protection."

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G8 summit: Sarkozy offers Libya's Gaddafi 'options'

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has urged Libya's Col Muammar Gaddafi to step down as "all options are open". Coach Jewelrys "We are not saying that Gaddafi needs to be exiled. He must leave power and the quicker he does it, the greater his choice," Mr Sarkozy told journalists. He is hosting a meeting of leaders from the G8 group of wealthy nations in the northern French resort of Deauville. The Arab uprisings, internet regulation and future of nuclear power are all being debated at the two-day summit. The global economy and climate change are also being discussed at the gathering for the leaders of the US, Russia, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada. Nike Dunk LowThousands of police have been deployed as part of a huge security operation and checkpoints have been erected on all roads leading to Deauville. 'Plane ticket' UK Prime Minister David Cameron, also at the G8 summit, has approved the deployment of Apache attack helicopters in Libya, the BBC has learned. There had been speculation about the move after France said it would be deploying French Tiger helicopters. Mr Sarkozy defended Nato's intervention in Libya when he spoke to journalists on Thursday evening, saying "had we not stepped in [the rebel stronghold of] Benghazi would have been wiped off the map". coach outlet He thanked Russia for not blocking the UN resolution authorising force despite Moscow's misgivings, and said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev understood that "the blame lies with Col Gaddafi" and he had said so "frankly and unambiguously". He said the later Col Gaddafi stood down, "the shorter the list of his possible destinations". If Col Gaddafi stepped down and withdrew his forces quickly, President Sarkozy said, "all options are open". "Then we'll look at what the name should be on the plane ticket and even what class he should travel," he joked. Cheap Nike Dunk SB HighMr Cameron has also talked about "turning up the pressure" on Col Gaddafi but the Apache helicopters will probably go into operation "within days" rather than overnight, says BBC political editor Nick Robinson. Correspondents say recent events such as uprisings in the Arab world and Japan's nuclear crisis have given the G8 a new sense of purpose. Interim prime ministers from Tunisia and Egypt - where long-time leaders were overthrown this year - and the head of the Arab League will also be at Deauville for talks on a massive aid plan to help their transition to democracy. As the summit opened, the French and Russian leaders met to agree the sale of four French-built Mistral helicopter carriers to Russia at a cost of at least 400m euros each (£350m; $565m). coach factory outlet Leaders debated ways of improving global nuclear safety after the breakdown of Japan's Fukushima power plant following March's earthquake and tsunami, with Mr Sarkozy insisting that "when it comes to nuclear matters, safety must prevail over cost - that we all agreed on". His wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, who is hosting the leaders' spouses, greeted them in a white dress that showed off her pregnancy. US President Barack Obama, who headed to the meeting after a state visit to the UK, is holding a series of one-on-one meetings with leaders including President Sarkozy and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan. He has already met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for discussions over the two countries' long-running row over US plans to create a missile defence shield in central and eastern Europe. Cheap Nike Dunk SB Low President Obama told reporters that the two men were committed to finding an approach that met the security needs of both countries, while Mr Medvedev said the two could work together towards a resolution, but it was unlikely to come in the near future. Points of friction BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall, in Deauville, says that despite President Obama's appeal in London on Wednesday for democratic unity and leadership, there may well be friction at the summit. She adds that Russia's president has opposed air strikes on Libya from the start, though he may offer to mediate in that conflict. Coach NecklacesAfrica will also be represented at the summit, as it has been since 2003. Newly elected leaders from Ivory Coast, Niger and Guinea are expected to participate in sessions about promoting democracy. A shift in global influence to emerging powers such as India and China, who are not in the G8, has led to the bloc's relevance being questioned. But speaking in London on Wednesday, President Obama rejected arguments that the rise of superpowers like China and India spelled the demise of American and European influence in the world. Nike Dunk SB High After the summit ends on Friday afternoon, President Obama is scheduled to travel to Poland, the last stop on a four-country tour of Europe that began on Monday in Ireland.

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Jared Loughner ruled unfit to stand trial

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Police interview Chris Huhne over speeding claims

Essex Police have interviewed Lib Dem Cabinet minister Chris Huhne over allegations he tried to evade punishment for speeding.Coach Op Art HandbagsThe police are investigating claims Mr Huhne asked someone to take his penalty points for a 2003 speeding offence.A spokesman for Mr Huhne, who has previously insisted the claims are "incorrect", confirmed he had helped police with their inquiries.The police also interviewed Mr Huhne's estranged wife Vicky Pryce."Chris Huhne helped the Essex Police with their inquiries today and looks forward to an early resolution of this issue," a spokesman for the Cabinet minister said.Nike Dunk LowThe energy secretary and MP for Eastleigh is currently involved in divorce proceedings from Ms Pryce, his wife of 25 years, whom he left for another woman last year.In a statement, Ms Pryce's solicitor Sarah Webb, said: "Vicky Pryce met with Essex Police today as part of their inquiry."She continues to do what is necessary in respect of the inquiry but in view of the fact that it is on going it is not appropriate for her or anyone on her behalf to comment further."'Total unlimited denial' coach outletThe police launched the investigation into the speeding claims - which would constitute a criminal offence - after a complaint by a Labour MP earlier this month.Mr Huhne has said the allegations, which first surfaced in a number of national newspapers, had been "made before and been shown to be untrue".Following newspaper suggestions on Sunday that he was about to change his position - and concede he may have been driving his car on the day it was clocked speeding - his spokesman said his "total unlimited denial" remained in place.Downing Street has said the prime minister has "full confidence" in Mr Huhne.Cheap Nike Dunk SB HighMr Huhne is one of five Lib Dems in the cabinet and narrowly lost out in a leadership contest against Nick Clegg in 2007.

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Sat nav-style technology used to track UK seabirds

Tiny trackers are being fitted to the backs of seabirds in the UK as part of a Europe-wide effort to better understand their behaviour. Coach Backpack HandbagsScientists are tagging birds on the Fair Isle, Orkney and Colonsay in the Hebrides. The project called Future of the Atlantic Marine Environment (Fame) also includes species on Bardsey Island in Wales and the Isles of Scilly. The RSPB said Fame used technology similar to car sat nav systems. Trackers are also being fitted to birds in Ireland, France, Spain and Portugal. Women Nike Dunk SB High Dr Ellie Owen, a scientist working on a European Union-funded project, said very little was known about the movements of birds as they hunted at sea. She said: "We know more about the journeys of albatrosses in the Southern Ocean than we do about some of the seabirds around our own shores. "For example, we know how many kittiwakes there are in the UK, and we know they've declined by 30% between 2000 and 2010. "But we don't know where these ocean travellers are going to fish for their chicks' suppers. But now, just when these birds need our help, we're on the cusp of filling this information void with vitally-important data." Coach Sunglasses 'Dwindling food' The tracking devices take a reading every 100 seconds, allowing the scientists to accurately pinpoint birds' movements between nesting colonies and the areas of sea the birds use to find food. The RSPB said the technology was accurate to within a few metres. In the UK, the Fame project has been tagging fulmar, shag, kittiwake, guillemot and razorbill. Elsewhere, scientists are involved with other seabirds such as gannet, European storm petrel, Madeiran storm petrel and Balearic and Cory's shearwaters Women Nike Dunk SB Low. Dr Owen, who has fitted trackers to birds on Colonsay, said: "European seabirds face a variety of threats from dwindling food supplies, climate change, entanglement with fishing gear and pollution. "By recording these birds' movements we are building a greater understanding of their requirements so we can begin to give these species the protection they need."

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Laser puts record data rate through fibre

Researchers have set a new record for the rate of data transfer using a single laser: 26 terabits per second. coach outletAt those speeds, the entire Library of Congress collections could be sent down an optical fibre in 10 seconds.The trick is to use what is known as a "fast Fourier transform" to unpick more than 300 separate colours of light in a laser beam, each encoded with its own string of information.The technique is described in the journal Nature Photonics.The push for higher data rates in light-based telecommunications technologies has seen a number of significant leaps in recent years.Nike Dunk HighWhile the earliest optical fibre technologies encoded a string of data as "wiggles" within a single colour of light sent down a fibre, newer approaches have used a number of tricks to increase data rates.Among them is what is known as "orthogonal frequency division multiplexing", which uses a number of lasers to encode different strings of data on different colours of light, all sent through the fibre together.At the receiving end, another set of laser oscillators can be used to pick up these light signals, reversing the process.Check the pulse Coach BootsWhile the total data rate possible using such schemes is limited only by the number of lasers available, there are costs, says Wolfgang Freude, a co-author of the current paper from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany."Already a 100 terabits per second experiment has been demonstrtaed," he told BBC News."The problem was they didn't have just one laser, they had something like 500 lasers, which is an incredibly expensive thing. If you can imagine 500 lasers, they fill racks and consume tens of kilowatts of power."Professor Freude and his colleagues have instead worked out how to create comparable data rates using just one laser with exceedingly short pulses.Nike Dunk LowWithin these pulses are a number of discrete colours of light in what is known as a "frequency comb".When these pulses are sent into an optical fibre, the different colours can add or subtract, mixing together and creating about 350 different colours in total, each of which can be encoded with its own data stream.Last year, Professor Freude and his collaborators first demonstrated how to use all of these colours to transmit over 10 terabits per second.At the receiving end, traditional methods to separate the different colours will not work. Here, the researchers have implemented what is known as an optical fast Fourier transform to unpick the data streams. coach factory outletColours everywhereThe Fourier transform is a well-known mathematical trick that can in essence extract the different colours from an input beam, based solely on the times that the different parts of the beam arrive.The team does this optically - rather than mathematically, which at these data rates would be impossible - by splitting the incoming beam into different paths that arrive at different times, recombining them on a detector.In this way, stringing together all the data in the different colours turns into the simpler problem of organising data that essentially arrives at different times.Cheap Nike Dunk SB HighProfessor Freude said that the current design outperforms earlier approaches simply by moving all the time delays further apart, and that it is a technology that could be integrated onto a silicon chip - making it a better candidate for scaling up to commercial use.He concedes that the idea is a complex one, but is convinced that it will come into its own as the demand for ever-higher data rates drives innovation."Think of all the tremendous progress in silicon photonics," he said. "Nobody could have imagined 10 years ago that nowadays it would be so common to integrate relatively complicated optical circuits on to a silicon chip."

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Uganda's Kizza Besigye 'put under house arrest'

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been prevented from leaving his house by police, as the new parliamentary session is set to open.coach factory outletThe police say that they had information he had mobilised supporters and was about to commit a crime.He has been arrested four times in recent weeks during opposition protests at the rising cost of living.Human rights groups have criticised the police crackdown on the protests, which left nine people dead.The BBC's Joshua Mmali in Kampala says Dr Besigye left his house in a car and was stopped by a police roadblock.Kids Dunk HighThey said he was under "preventive arrest" and gave him two options - either to return home or to go the police station.He went home and his party says he is effectively under house arrest.Dr Besigye says he was cheated in February's election, although he mustered only half as many votes as President Yoweri Museveni.The government accuses him of using trying to organise an Egypt-style uprising.Changing the law  Coach BeltsFrom his house on Friday morning, he told the BBC's Network Africa programme he felt ashamed that Uganda had "regressed back to the dark days of previous atrocious dictatorships"."When we used to have a law called the preventative detention act under which political opponents could be detained indefinitely by the regime in power," he said."I have no idea what the conditions of my house arrest are... they didn't say for how long."He says he has instructed his lawyers to challenge the police action in court. Kids Dunk LowAs the new parliament session begins, President Museveni wants MPs to urgently change the law so that people accused of crimes, including rioting and economic sabotage, are not entitled to bail for six months.BBC East Africa correspondent Will Ross says this is widely seen as an attempt to lock up Dr Besigye.It is also feared that this law could be used to detain journalists.On Wednesday, President Museveni wrote a letter to the state-owned New Vision newspaper describing local and foreign media, including the BBC, as "enemies of Uganda's recovery" for their coverage of the protests. Coach ScarvesLast month, riots broke out in Kampala in protest at the rough treatment meted out to Dr Besigye by the security services during his arrest on 29 April.Plain-clothed policemen were filmed beating up his supporters, smashing the window of his car and dousing the inside with pepper spray and tear gas before manhandling him into a vehicle and driving off.The authorities say Dr Besigye provoked them - and he was charged with inciting violence.Mr Museveni came to power in 1986, following years of misrule under Milton Obote and Idi Amin.D&G shoesHe was initially praised as part of a new generation of African leaders determined to raise living standards and bring democracy to the continent.But recently, donors have cut off some aid amid concern about his commitment to human rights.

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