City of Pakistan affected by a suicide bomb

26 May 2011, update at 20 h 46 GMT that the bomb exploded near several buildings and shops in HanguAt less than 32 people were killed after a suicide bomber in a car struck the buildings of the Government in Pakistan's volatile Northwest.

The bomb exploded near several buildings and shops of Hangu, near Pakistan's tribal areas, causing damage.

District police offices are also in the area, officers are among the victims, police said.

The Pakistani Taliban have said that they carried out the attack.

Militants attacks increased considerably since the assassination of the Chief of al-Qaeda Osama Bin Laden by us special forces in Pakistan on 2 May.

The official police Latif Khan, said the explosion left a deep crater.

"Were partially damaged buildings housing police station... but at least 15 stores, including a tea house and a restaurant are completely shaved," said.

Buildings also contain courts of Hangu district, police said.

Official Pakistani Mir shaman Khan said 56 people were injured. Most of the victims were civilians, and many had been in the restaurant, he added.

Witnesses said that the explosion was so powerful that they feared people were trapped in the rubble. The bomb contained approximately 900 lb (400 kg) of explosives, said the officials.

Hangu, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has a history of attacks by militants that often focus on the security forces.

The region also has a history of violence between Shiite and Sunni communities.

The attack was ADM Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Pakistan for talks with senior military and civilian leaders.

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani condemned the explosion, describing the attackers as "enemies of humanity".

Taliban spokesman Pakistani Ehsanullah Ehsan told the AFP News Agency: "accept us responsibility for this attack." It was a small attack to avenge martyrdom Osama.

"Soon you will see more attacks." Revenge for Osama cannot be satisfied only with small attacks. ?

On Wednesday, four people were killed and 22 injured in a truck-suicide attack against a police station in Peshawar in the vicinity.

Monday, Pakistani troops ended a siege by militants who attacked a naval force of air base in Karachi, killing at least 16 people, including 10 soldiers.

Work Lowry retrieves record £ 5. 6 m

 the final price for the game of Football is a record for the artist a painting of LS Lowry which was not observed in public since nearly 20 years has sold for a record amount of ￡ 5. 6 m at auction.

The Football Match (1949), which represents hundreds of artist signing stick figures expected to fetch between ￡ 3. 5 m-￡ 4. 5 m.

The final sale of ￡ 5,641,250, including the premium from the buyer at Christie in London is a record for the artist.

The previous record in 2007 when Friday, Daisy nook, (1946) sold for ￡ 3. 77 m.

Lowry, who died in 1976 at the age of 88 years, was known for its simple descriptions of working-class life.

Philip Harley of Christie of the described the painting as"the ultimate for passionate connoisseurs of work of Lowry, and football".

"The large format, birds eye composite panoramic view of the landscape of Lowry captures perfectly the spirit and drama of a city under the influence of the excitation of the Saturday football game," he said.

Painting on tour in London and the United States in Paris, shortly after it was completed, into a collection private in 1950 where he remained for more than 40 years.

Representation of Lowry of one of the streets that inspired SOAP ITV Coronation Street was also under the hammer in 20th century British Christie and action Irish Art Thursday.

It was expected to fetch between 300 000 ￡-￡ 500,000.

Immigrant Arizona right back Court

  Arizona Immigration laws sparked protests from the United States Supreme Court upheld a law in the State of Arizona which imposes penalties on businesses that hire illegal immigrants.

He rejected the argument advanced by a coalition of business and civil liberties groups that the Act of 2007 in contradiction with the policy of the Federal Government.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts said that seven States had recently adopted similar laws.

A recent expansion of the powers of police search Arizona law has not been discussed.

The old Act subject to decision by Thursday, the legal Arizona Workers Act, has been challenged by the Chamber of Commerce and the American Civil Liberties Union, with the support of the administration of the Obama.

It was intended to address the problem of smuggling immigrants by requiring employers to check the status of new workers through a federal database.

Employers found to have violated the law may have their licenses suspended or revoked.

John Roberts Chief Justice, said the law "falls well within the limits of the authority that Congress has chosen to leave the States".

Blocked

The implications of the decision could be felt beyond the borders of Arizona.

Jay Sekulow, Chief Advisor to the conservative American Center right and Justice, said that the decision may mean that other States are now more important immigration issues.

The most recent and most controversial law governing the powers of the police has caused much criticism, in the concerns it would lead to racial profiling of Hispanics, forcing legal immigrants to transport documents.

The Court of appeals for the Ninth Circuit has blocked the application of this Act, and the case can reach the Supreme Court.

Arctic reindeer "have ultraviolet" vision

 wild reindeer foraging for food on the islands of the Arctic Svalbard Arctic reindeer can see beyond the light "visible" spectrum in the region in the ultraviolet, according to new research by an international team.

They say on Rennes, tests showed that the animal responds to stimuli UV, unlike humans.

The ability could allow them to choose food and predators in the Arctic "UV rich" atmosphere and retain visibility in low light.

Details are published in The Journal of experimental biology.

See predator

UV light is invisible to humans. It has a wavelength that is shorter (and more-powered) as "visible light", ranging from 400 nanometers to 10nm wavelength.

First, the researchers have established that UV light could pass through the lens and the cornea of the eye of reindeer pulling a dissected sample light. Tests showed that the light at a wavelength of waters in the eye.

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human beings humans and other mammals are actually a minority with not sensitivity to UV radiation "

end quote Professor Lars Chittka Queen Mary University London they sought to prove that animals could"see"the light"by testing the electrical response of the retina of Rennes anesthetized to UV light.

"We used what we call an ERG (electroretinography), by which we record the electrical response on the retina by putting a small piece of gold within the eyelid leaf," co-author Professor Glen Jeffery of the University College London told BBC News.

Tests showed that the photoreceptor cells or "cones" in the retina did to UV rays.

"If you're a Bumblebee, don't you think a large part of what this animal because it is to see to what is called 'near UV' (about 320 to limit), but it is always very high energy stuff".

UV vision can allow Rennes for "see" their traditional predator, the Wolf

Researchers believe that UV vision could allow the reindeer to distinguish food and predators in the "white-out" of the Arctic winter and spring and autumn twilight.

Lichen, which the animal feeds, appear black in the eyes of reindeer, they say, because it absorbs UV light. Traditional animal predator, wolves, seems to be also more dark against the snow, as their fur absorbs UV light.

Urine in the snow would be also more noticeable in UV vision, which could alert the reindeer to the scent of predators or other reindeer.

Nor has the animal appear to suffer damage as a result of see in the UV, say researchers or suffer from the "snow blindness" humans may suffer in the UV-rich Arctic environment.

Polar vision

Professor Lars Chittka Queen Mary University of London, who explored features UV of bees, said the study showed that we call "visible" spectrum did not apply to most of the animal Kingdom.

"This is further evidence that sensitivity to UV through animals is the rule not the exception, and that human beings humans and other mammals are actually a minority with not sensitivity to UV radiation.He said.

Professor Chittka was not surprised that UV light seemed to do no damage to the retina of Rennes. He said that the tests suggest that the eye would admit only UV light low frequency ("UV light - A") rather than the more damaging of higher frequency light ("UV - B").

Testing behaviors and modeling more would be also necessary to check that the apparent ability of Rennes for detecting UV rays really takes place at the "better detection of predators and Arctic lichens", he said.

The same research team that conducted the tests of Rennes will soon be repeating the same experiences of seals to see if you can see in the UV region. Professor Jeffery believes that many animals of the Arctic is likely to have the ability.

"There is no evidence that Arctic foxes and polar bears are suffering from snow blindness, so I bet you that most of the animals in the Arctic until he saw in UV.".

We draws diplomats of the Yemen

Medical sources said 72 people died in the three days of clashes between government troops and tribal fighters.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh said once more that he will not resign, despite mounting protests.

So far, he refused to sign a contract for the transition that would see him to resign for a Government of national unity.

The United States reiterated its call on Mr. Saleh to resign, urging all parties to accept a cease-fire.

"We continue to support the departure of President Saleh, who consistently agreed that he should resign from power and then denies systematically on these agreements", Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said to journalists in Paris.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs UK urged all British nationals to leave immediately the Yemen the fight against it degenerates.

He said his ability to provide consular assistance was limited, and airports and routes of Sanaa and other cities can be closed.

Airport of clashes

In his view of the trip, said US State Department there was "civil disorder in progress" in the country and large scale demonstrations in major cities.

It is the most intense violence since the beginning of the crisis in the Yemen there.

It follows the refusal of President Saleh signed a weekend compromise agreement, under which he would have resigned in return for an amnesty from prosecution.

Since then, opposition forces have attacked government buildings. Mr. Saleh has focused its attacks on the forces of a Chief tribal key, Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar.

President Saleh warned that the country could be descending into civil war. The fear of opposition it is exactly what he seeks to provoke in order to maintain his hold on power.

During this time international mediation is stalled. Neighbouring Arabic of Yemen suspended their efforts after failing to seal an agreement last weekend.

Hunters of a powerful tribal group, the Rashid, are supposed to have taken control of several public buildings in the capital Sanaa after several days of fighting Government troops.

Sana'a airport was temporarily closed on Wednesday as combatants tribes faced the Government forces.

"The State Department ordered all eligible family members of non-emergency employees of the U.S. Government and certain staff to depart from the Yemen." Citizens currently in the Yemen we should leave while commercial transportation is available. ?

UK Foreign Office advises against all travel to the Yemen since April, urging British nationals to leave the country.

Warning of the civil war

Hundreds of people were fleeing the violence in the capital, where fighting continued Thursday.

"There still sporadic artillery hits and shot in Sanaa," said Jeb Boone, Chief Editor of the Times Yemen.

"We do not know if the tribes are forcing their way in the city or if the Government forces are pushing off", he told the BBC.

Continue reading of history main Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar is the leader in global Rashid tribal Confederation, one of the main groups of tribal YemenHis Abdullah bin Hussein al-Ahmar - deceased father in 2007 - based brother Hamid al-Ahmar of the Islamist Islah opposition partySheikh Sadiq is a prominent businessman and member of Islah; He has repeatedly called for the resignation of Mr. Saleh another brother, Sheikh Hussein Bin Abdullah al-Ahmar, resigned the President Council governing popular in February on the shooting of President Saleh protestersLike, the Ahmars are the Zaidi Shi'a Islam branchWhile most Yemenis are Sunni Shaf'istsThe clashes began Monday after the relocation of forces loyal to President Saleh against the compound of Rachid leader Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar.

Medical sources told the BBC that 54 people - including Ahmar supporters, women and children - have died in fierce fighting, and 18 Government soldiers.

More than 250 people have been wounded.

The defence of the Yemen Ministry said 28 people were killed when a factory of ammunition belonging to the tribe Ahmar exploded.

While Mr. Saleh has ordered the arrest of "rebel" Mr. Ahmar and nine of his brothers, the leader of Rachid said that it was "position of strength" and ready to fight "until the end."

In an interview with defiant with Arab Network al-Jazeera Thursday, he called on several occasions Mr. Saleh a liar, accusing him of fomenting a civil war and call repeatedly for him to resign.

Mr. Ahmar said he was protected by soldiers of the army, and members of his tribe and took 70 soldiers who had surrendered as prisoners.

The BBC, Jon Leyne, said demonstrators want the President to leave immediately

He added: "I am ready to put an end to this war if Ali Abdullah Saleh too."

Mr. Saleh has so far refused to withdraw, despite international pressure intensified, warning that the Yemen could descend into civil war.

In a statement Wednesday it was ready to sign a contract of transition "in a national dialogue and a clear mechanism".

The deal Mr. Saleh has so far refused to sign, which was presented by the Gulf Cooperation Council, calls for him to resign in a month after 33 years in Office and power to a Government of national unity.

 

Surrealist artist Carrington dies

 sculptor, artist and writer - Carrington was known for his haunting, dreamlike sculptor Leonora Carrington, considered one of the last of the original surrealist artists, died at the age of 94 ansOfficiels Mexicans have said.

Born in the British Carrington arrived at the Mexico after it escaped from a psychiatric hospital and fled Nazi Europe.

She settled in the country, becoming a national treasure and the creation of works of art which depicts the mythical worlds.

And sculptures, she wrote articles, novels, essays and poetry exposed everywhere in the world.

"It was the last surrealist of high life," said his friend, the poet Homero Aridjis. "It was a living legend."

She was famous for works haunting, dreamlike, with emphasis on the strange ritual-like scenes with birds, cats, Unicorn-creatures, and other animals.

Life of the drama

She died on Wednesday after having suffered a respiratory illness, said of Mexico National Council for Culture and the Arts.

The life of MS Carrington was full of turns and twists and dramatic turns.

Born in Lancashire, England in an industrial aristocratic family in 1917 she took the painting from an early age.

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these are images which is the result of a mind obsessed to portray a reality that exceeds what can be seen "

end quote Mexico National Arts Council at 20 she moved to Paris, falling in love with the surrealist painter Max Ernst"who was 26 years old more than him.

He presented to major figures in the movement including El Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miro and the founder of the group, André Breton.

She held his first exhibitions of Surrealist painting in 1938 in Paris and Amsterdam.

After Ernst was arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France in 1939, she fell into a deep depression, and committed to a psychiatric hospital in Santander (Spain).

She managed to escape and in Lisbon, she married Mexican poet and journalist Renato Leduc.

In 1942, they went to the Mexico where she settled in permanence, painter Frida Kahlo befriending and future winner of the Nobel Prize Octavio Paz.

She married her second husband, born in Hungary writer-photographer Emerico "chiki" Weisz, in 1946 and had two children.

"She created mythic worlds in which animals and human beings magical occupies the main stage, in which fusion cobras with goats and blind crows become trees", wrote the National Council for the Arts.

"These were some of the images is the result of a mind obsessed to portray a reality that exceeds what can be seen."

Lovers of accused the Hong Kong Tycoon

 Tony Chan, says Ms. Wang intended to leave his billion $ (taken from ￡ 7) fortune to the former boyfriend and feng shui master at the end billionairess from Hong Kong Nina Wang was accused of forgery.

The charge relates to a desire to 2006 Tony Chan argued entitled him to the fortune of several billion dollars of Ms. Wang.

Certification to power early last year, the judge held to a different willingness of 2002 and stated that Mr. Chan was a forgery.

The case has captivated the media of Hong Kong and the public.

Ms. Wang died in 2007, leaving an estimated fortune of (taking ￡ 7) billion $.

Tony Chan has always insisted that the Chinachem businesswoman left him his fortune.

But there was that another will be 2002, leaving his money to the charitable foundation of Chinachem, managed by the members of the family of Ms. Wang.

Mr. Chan was arrested by the Commercial Crime Bureau on the day after the judgment of homologation in February last year, but no charges were laid so far.

Mr. Chan is accused of forgery and using a false instrument, following what police said was a thorough investigation.

Married Mr. Chan, 20 years younger than Ms. Wang, says it was her boyfriend after that she left a widow when her tycoon husband Teddy Wang was kidnapped and never found.

Ms. Wang was a colorful, personality known to wear boots and miniskirts in his 60 s.

Tata Motors, driven by the joy of Jaguar

 sales in the heart of Indian Affairs increased 23% for both commercial and personal vehicles Tata Motors reported a tripling of profits in the last year.

The Indian manufacturer made total profits after tax for the past 12 months from 92. 7bn rupees ($ 2bn, ￡ 1 5.3), 260% from a year earlier, with an increase of 33% of revenues to 1. 2tn rupees.

Company to its subsidiary of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) saw a sudden turnaround, with ￡ 1 billion of pre-tax profits, with broken little even in the 2009-2010 year.

The firm said that it planned to increase exports by its British subsidiary.

"Exciting new products".

Exports has already led a jump of 51% in revenues to JLR in the last year, with the development of markets such as China, given the faster growth.

The share of UK business fell by 28% to 24% of sales.

The firm will open its first line of output for JLR in India Friday.

The jump in the profits of the unit of the UK - flattered by the value fall of sterling - he helped to pay off debts, with a net debt fell nearly two-thirds of 233 million to ￡.

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When the global slowdown hit the automotive industry felt the fully in force. The brands range such as JLR has suffered the most. The company has even thought of closing one of its plants in the Midlands.

If his change is all the more remarkable. Not only he sells more cars, but revenues have increased by more than 50%. So over last year, is to make lots of money by car.

How? Analysts say that it is now the sale of cars in places like China — where a new elite is very ready to pay the premium price. He is also sell more higher end vehicles - providing higher margins.

With three-quarters of all sales outside of the UK, it is also the relative weakness of sterling.

Now, from the closure of a plant, JLR is thought to be considering building a new plant of engines here.

The result reflected "confidence of consumers in our brands", according to Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Ralf Speth JLR.

"We have made more than ￡ billion a year over the next five years to the creation of new and exciting products,", he added.

The UK firm has already unveiled a new supercar of the hybrids of ￡ 700,000 Jaguar, developed in collaboration with the Williams formula 1 team.

Mumbai-based Tata Motors bought Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford brands in 2008.

Nano woes

During this time, the Indian arm of Tata core sales increased in all areas, with commercial vehicles and personal cars up 23%.

The company said that he thought infrastructure India spending increase would stimulate additional demand for trucks, while it planned to expand sales of its passenger vehicles in the rural India.

However, sales of small cars lagged somewhat in the last year, perhaps due to difficulties with the Tata Nano, the cheapest car in the world, which began production in 2008.

Tata has already indicated that sales of its Nano had dropped 85% in November last year.

Difficulty to customers of the company blamed in obtaining loans, but analysts say that the price rises, as well as publicity related to a series of fires in the already sold cars played a role in the decline in sales.

Tata said that he planned to begin exporting the Nano in the coming year.

By its Indian exports has increased by 70%, led by demand in neighbouring countries, but remained a negligible part of its sales.

Disorders of the Mexico moves village

 four days of shootings have turned the streets of Buenavista in the no zone go at least 2,000 people have fled their homes in the State of Michoacan, in the West of the Mexico, in several days of fighting between gangs.

The worst of the violence is centered on the town of Buenavista.

Streets are deserted in certain suburbs, but in the core areas witnesses reported bursts of automatic weapon.

Believed to be infighting among factions within the agreement of the Familia.

At least three people are confirmed dead but a journalist for the local newspaper told the BBC by phone the rival gangs had removed their comrades fallen in the streets.

She said that it is violence worse hitting Michoacan State.

A shelter was set up for displaced families in Buenavista.

Army and units of the marine were shipped to the region and set up roadblocks.

During this time, the coast of the Pacific of Nayarit State authorities say the number of deaths after a shoot-out between rival gangs has now reached at least 29.

The shooting took place Wednesday at a crossroads near Ruiz in the coast of the Pacific of Nayarit State, about to the Northwest of 800 km (500 miles) of Mexico City.

American Idol reveals his winner.

26 May 2011, updated at 10: 34 GMT Scotty McCreery beat Lauren Alaina to win the final of the American Idol.Teenage Scotty McCreery country singer has been crowned winner this year of American Idol.

The 17 years of Garner, North Carolina, beat his teenager Lauren Alaina colleague, who had been considered the favorite to win the series.

McCreery, a high school student who also works part-time at the local grocery store, wowed the audience with his deep voice of the trade mark.

It is the first winner of country music since Carrie Underwood won in 2005.

McCreery is also the fourth consecutive male competitor to win the competition.

After having been declared the winner, he said: "never in my wildest dreams." I have come to thank the Lord first. There me here. ?

During the final, that he sang with country singer Tim McGraw, in addition to sing what will become her first single, I Love you this Big.

Vocal damage

Sixteen Alaina of Rossville, in Georgia, had been a favorite of judges after final sing-off Tuesday, despite a vocal injury required medical treatment.

But consistent representations of McCreery has captivated the public.

Television said Fox network 122 million votes had been issued by the public by telephone, text message and online.

The season was the first for new judges Jennifer Lopez and the leader of the Group Aerosmith Steven Tyler.

It is still unclear if they will be back on the show next year.

Return of lethargic bolt WINS Rome

Bolt labours 100 m Diamond League winWorld 100 m record holder Usain Bolt returns to track after a quasi absence of 10 months with victory at Diamond League meeting in Rome.

But it was a rather dull display by of Jamaican colorful have standards, winning in 9.91 seconds.

"I was nervous, as it was my first race of the season." I thought it went well and the nerves got me, "said the sprinter.

"It was a totally bad race and I am glad that I won."

Bolt continues its season of the League of diamonds in Oslo in Norway June 9, in preparation for the the World Championships in Korea South in August.

"Today was just to get the cobwebs out", he added. "But I got through the injury of free race and now I just look forward to the next race.".

Bolt has received an enthusiastic reception it was introduced to the 47,000 fans in the stadium but when he came to the race itself, it was slow on blocks.

But in his first outing since losing to Tyson Gay in Stockholm on August 6 last year, the Jamaican star found its rhythm in the second on board 50 m past countryman Asafa Powell, who has run of 9.93, in the final few metres.

Europe French champion Christophe Lemaitre, crossed the line third, 10 h 00.

BBC Sport Steve Cram commentator, said: "it was poor on blocks and if he did find the finish line."

"He is certainly going to go further and are working hard on that.". By its very high standards you could almost call average. I doubt not there more to come from him.

"But if we watched Tyson Gay, it would be very happy and thinking" Bring it on'. "".

During this time, Britain's world and European triple-jump champion, Phillips idowu, show solid form some 30 cm closest rival ahead, Christian Olsson as he jumped a distance of world-class 17.59 m.

Swedish Olsson led the competition with its first round of 17.29 m, but Idowu, jump, responds well to win the event with an impressive jump in second-round.

In a much-anticipated women's 400 m, American Allyson Felix has stormed to victory at improving his time of 49.81 best season. Champion of the world of Sanya Richard Ross could manage only fifth.

There was a positive British view of perri Shakes-Drayton, who led a best time of 51.47.

Felix has been unable to make a double victory in Rome, finishing fourth in the 200 m, 45 minutes later, behind his colleague Bianca Knight U.S. athlete, who won in 22.64.

dai Greene, of Great Britain of Europe and the Commonwealth champion, gave a display powerful in the 400 m hurdles, second crossing behind LJ van Zyl in 48.24.

South African Zyl, who has broken the mark 48 seconds for the third time this year, timed project.

The 1500m, Lisa dobriskey finished 10th, far behind winner Maryam Yusuf Jamal.

Favorite before the race, Ukrainian Anna athlete was shot with 500 m to go and finished in the fourth.

Blanka Vlasic never looked like losing the high jump. Strong performance of the Croatian won the competition with 1.95 m.

100 m hurdles Tiffany ofili-Porter was no match for race-winner Dawn Harper, when she finishes last in 12.91 seconds.

There were also a handful of the British in the events non - Diamond League, also held in Rome running.

Christian malcolm and Leon Baptist came sixth and last respectively in the 200 m with a time of 20.95 and 21.16.

Martyn rooney tested Chris Brown of the Bahamas in the 400 m, but the London weakened in the final 70 m to stop the clock at 46.12, in second place.

Divert the evidence

May 26, 2011 updated 23: 19 GMT on the Ohio River in West Virginia, a company shows how to defend ships against hacker attacks.Despite the growing scourge of piracy Somali, scores of sailors have taken this year to yachts in the dangerous waters off the coast of the Horn of Africa, and at least three have been attacked. The BBC Daniel Nasaw in Washington asked whether it was possible to keep a yacht from the pirates.

It was high morning in the middle of the Oman Sea, more than 600 miles of the Earth, when the hijackers struck Capricorn.

Somali Marauders have opened fire on the yacht of 22 m (72 ft), then clambered on board as the Dutch master and engineer takes refuge in the engine room.

During this time, a team of armed Ukrainian guards on a m 42 former vessel of war, committed as an escort returned fire, then came alongside of Capricorn. A guard jumped on board and raised his weapon, and the pirates fled on their skiff.

The boat suffered minor damage and the crew was injured.

"They were, course, a bit of shock,", said Thomas Jakobsson, Chief of operations for the naval guards, the Cardiff-based company providing an escort ship.

"If you're not used to having people draw on you - and I imagine that even if you are - it is always an unpleasant experience."

War zone

Capricorn is one of the yachts at least 133 who sailed the region this year, according to the Maritime Security Centre - Horn of Africa, an agency of the European Union.

Marc Adams took a detour of 1 000 miles to avoid pirates, but was within eight miles of attack

While most pirates are commercial vessels, at least three yachts have been hit this year and the attack on Capricorn was the only story with a happy ending.

In February, four Americans were killed after that pirates hijacking their yacht, the quest, off the coast of the Oman. The same month pirates seized seven Danes, including three teenagers, their yacht ING.

"My advice is fairly consistent: do not come if you do not,"said Capt. Michael Lodge for the U.S. Maritime Liaison Office in Bahrain, which advised ships circulating in the region. ".

"If you decide to come to you must carefully consider the risks associated with the trip." "Plan, be aware of the dangers".

M. Jakobsson, a former soldier of the special forces of the Sweden, was more blunt.

"Go bicycle camping in Afghanistan," said. "I am certain that this is the same experience."

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When you talk of armed security guards, you will need to speak to kill people. "It is simply not a solution"

end quote Bill Rouse this year, dozens of boaters found themselves in Sri Lanka, the Maldives or India port with a difficult decision before one of them.

Sailors said to the BBC, they had been aware of the growing threat of piracy, but after his arrival in the Indian Ocean after long sailing in Asia, they found the number of attacks by pirates had exceeded their expectations and changed their plans.

Turning is can mean a long sailing against the prevailing winds or a journey through the North treacherous Pacific of the Japan in Alaska. A southern journey around the South Africa can add months to travel and there are always risks.

Marc and Jane Adams, the Americans looking to the Tower of the world in 2008 with their children, have opted to sail north of the Maldives, hugging the Pakistani, and Indian coasts of fuel combustion and the addition of 1,000 miles from their tripuntil they reach Oman.

Mr. Adams and two crew members continued in the Gulf of Aden. March 1, eight kilometres from their a vessel was attacked by pirates - so close that they saw distress rockets take to the sky.

"We tried to bugs as fast as they could", Mr. Adams said in a telephone interview from Suez, Egypt. "We are not armed, we are sitting ducks, it's dark, we're a sailboat. "It is about as fear that you most want to be."

Security Kit

Secure a yacht is much harder than a cargo ship, because it is slow, low in the water and unable to throw up a wake high mixing advanced pirate skiffs.

The Rouses, illustrated in Tonga with a young friend, paid for the transportation of their sailing yacht rather than risk

But a number of us, the UK companies and European came on the market with products and services, they say can reduce the risks to the brave sailors - or foolhardy - is enough to navigate the pirate waters.

Companies will provide guards armed docking on the boat of the client or on a ship escort of great power, train yacht owners and crews on how to identify and respond to a threat of pirate and provide a range of kit to keep hackers remotelyOnce they have approached the yacht.

US-based International Maritime Security Network is developing a system for yachts that will take a pirate shower approaching with slick green, foul-smelling liquid.

"The last thing they want to do now is draw what, said Director General Tim Nease." They want to jump in the water, and I hope that sharks are hungry. It is sufficient to escape. You can not breath in, you can not breath out. It consumes, it stinks. "It is bad."

"Killed or captured".

Americans Bill and Judy Rouse last month cancelled their plans to sail their yacht of 16 m across the Indian Ocean - and instead paid approximately $30,000 (￡ 18,240) to load the boat on a cargo ship.

The couple left St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands five years ago with plans to sail around the world. But when they reach Cochin, India in February, Mr. Rouse previous tracks three months hijack attacks in the region.

"It was definitely a game changer", he said in an interview with Skype of male in the Maldives. And, "when you talk of armed security guards you need to speak to kill people." It is simply not a solution. ?

If the disappointed couple spent weeks to find other owners of yachts to join with the hiring of a transport vessel, which left the male in April with more than a dozen other yachts loaded on board.

Mr. Rouse had a warning for all those seeking to navigate the Indian Ocean.

"There are really no alternative to the yachts such as ours, there are simply not," said. "A combination of a yacht and pirates will end only one way, and it is the people on the yacht will be killed or captured."

If you must go: experts in security have a range of advice on how to reduce the risk of attack, and companies are offering or developing products and services, they say can help

Fugitive arrested Rwandan genocide

 an approximately 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in 100 days in 1994 Rwandan suspect of genocide fugitive 17 years was arrested East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Bernard Munyagishari is accused of being a militia leader who orchestrated the murder of Tutsis and moderate Hutus Gisenyi in 1994.

He was caught in an operation mounted by the Congolese army in collaboration with a team of tracking by the Tribunal of the United Nations tent of genocide suspects.

Some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus died in the 100-day genocide.

Nine other Rwandan, accused of being key authors of the genocide are still at large.

The Church attacks

Correspondent of the BBC Will Ross Africa, explains Mr. Munyagishari, once a teacher and football referee, was apprehended in North Kivu in Eastern Congo DR - where many of those who participated in the 1994 genocide were hiding and causing the suffering of the Congolese people.

Mr. Munyagishari is facing charges of genocide, murder and rape and is should be provided to the Tribunal International Criminal for Rwanda (ICTR), the Court in Tanzania established to try the ringleaders of the genocide.

According to the indictment, he was the head of the militia Interahamwe Hutu in Gisenyi in the West of the country.

He trained fighters in forests in Rwanda and their army to wipe out the ethnic Tutsi population.

He is also accused of inciting attacks on churches where people had sought refuge.

The indictment said he ordered a group of female militiamen, led by his wife, in sexually tortured Tutsi women before killing.

Our correspondent says that one of the nine suspects of genocide in the large is Felicien Kabuga, that many believe have been protected for years by powerful politicians in the Kenya.

Last week, the Chief Prosecutor of the ICTR court stated that the Kenyan Government could more be done to apprehend him.

Quarterly results dazzle Tiffany

 sales jumped 23 percent to the Tiffany flagship store in New York, which attracts tourists Net profit at Tiffany & Co have increased by 25% in the first quarter to a sign that the luxury sector remains strong.

The high range jeweller announced a profit of $81. 1 m (￡ 48 5 m) for the three months to April, compared to $64. 4 m, a year earlier and ahead of market forecasts.

Tiffany had said previously it expected sales to Japan in the fall of 15% in the quarter following the March earthquake and tsunami.

But while same store in the Japan sales fell in March, they have rebounded in April.

Through the quarter, sales same store fell to 3% in the region, while total sales increased by 7%.

The firm said all shops which had closed due to earthquake had reopened since.

Income increased in all regions, with net sales around the world climbing 20% 761 m $. Analysts expected sales of 703 m $.

In the future, the company stated that he "exciting plans" this year. It intends to open 19 new stores, to introduce new products and to increase marketing and advertising expenses.

Pressure off the coast of al-Qaeda.

 the capital Sanaa has seen intense fighting between tribal fighters and these days the Yemen and for the wrong reasons issues unfortunately mainly security forces.

With the power drag slowly far President Ali Abdullah Saleh and armed clashes, killing dozens of people since Monday, there is concern that the country could disintegrate in a series of intertribal conflicts with repercussions throughout the region.

The Yemen is already home to al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula (AQAP), a small but dangerous group who tried to blow up an airliner over Detroit U.S. and sending bombs in the aircraft cargo bound for the United States last year.

Until this spring, AQAP was coming under pressure from mounting forces to fight the terrorism of the Government, supported and trained by the United States and Great Britain, and the air strikes by us unmanned aerial drones.

But with President Saleh having to fight for its own survival, the pressure is in part off the coast of al-Qaeda, which has been re-arming itself into chaos.

Neighbouring Gulf of Yemen, the six Arab States of the Gulf which are the Council for cooperation of the Gulf (GCC), are deeply concerned by the deteriorating crisis.

They fear weakness in the economy of the country could collapse completely, coupled with an upsurge in the fighting, could trigger a wave of refugees across the borders into Saudi Arabia and Oman.

The GCC, encouraged by Britain and the United States, made repeated attempts to descend Saleh President sign a transfer agreement that would see him step in exchange for immunity from prosecution by the Government of national unity who succeeded him. So far, he refused.

No Plan B

Yemen is faced with problems that go beyond the crisis of leadership or al-Qaida.

The poorest countries in the Arab world, its oil reserves are away, and therefore is groundwater capital, prompting fears it could be the first capital of the world to run out of water.

South of Yemen, who tries in vain to break with the most powerful North in 1994, has established separatist movement.

An insurrection of Shiites of long duration in the North dragged in forces from Saudi Arabia and, according to the Yemen, has also conducted interference in Iran.

Unemployment is high, there are too many guns in private hands, and a large part of the adult population waste valuable income and most of their afternoons to chew the narcotic qat sheet. In addition, Yemen is to find herself supporting thousands of Somali refugees.

International sympathy and attention briefly on the Yemen in the January 2010 London Conference, but a large part of promised billions of dollars of aid did not yet reach the people who need more.

The Arab world and the West that would like a Government of national unity bringing together take followed by a revival of the economy, but it does not appear to be a Plan B to President Saleh, refusing to be able to.

"Missing scores" after the U.S. tornado

tornado that tore through Joplin is regarded as the worst in The US of Missouri issued a list of more than 230 people missing since a devastating tornado struck the city of Joplin 60 years Sunday.

But the list is shrinking as people are located, and officials hope that others have simply failed to communicate with the members of the family.

The tornado has killed at least 125 people, wounded 750 and sinking up to one third of the city, making it one of the most destructive in the history of the United States.

U.S. President Barack Obama plans visit Joplin Sunday.

Thursday, the Associated Press found Sally Adams, 75, alive.

Neighbors saved after the tornado on Sunday, but she had lost her mobile phone and was unable to communicate with his family, who reported her lack to the authorities.

Another series of tornadoes hit Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing at least 16 people.

Thursday, Oklahoma authorities discovered the body of a three-year-old boy who disappeared after a tornado struck his home.

We are hopeful

Research teams in Joplin, Missouri, 49 000 persons, searched the wreckage for survivors. But Thursday morning, authorities have begun weighing when to start using bulldozers and other heavy kit to clear the debris - a step which would indicate no more survivors were supposed to be.

Joplin Mitch Randles fire chief was quoted by the Associated Press Agency by saying: "we had stories of earthquakes and tsunami and other disasters of persons located in two or three weeks later."", and we are hopeful that we will have a story like that."

Those leading the research effort that it is impossible to know how many people is really missing, given that many have simply left the area and not been in contact with the parents.

Mike Hare, said her 16 year old son that Lantz was among the missing. Mr. Hare told AP that he searched the area where the boy was seen last and had called hospitals also further than Dallas and Kansas City.

Lantz Hare had led with a friend when the tornado struck Sunday night. The tornado destroyed the car, and Mr. Hare found the bag back of Lantz in the wreckage.

"We know that he is wrong somewhere", Mr. Hare said Wednesday. "We just cannot sit and keep the appeal.". You have to move. ?

India prohibits the sexy deodorant ads

 the Department says the ads violate code cable television channels in India have been ordered not to broadcast "overtly sexual" deodorant ads that use female models in the 1940s scenarios.

Channels were given five days to change the offending ads or take-off of the air.

"Ads are full messages designed to tickle the prurient male sex instincts," the India information Ministry said in a news release.

None of the companies appointed by the Department have responded so far.

The Department stated that the ads offended "good taste and decency" and that it seemed "indecent, vulgar and suggestive" by subtly sending a message that products "are the sexuality of women".

It is said that they portrayed women as "lustily hankering after men under the influence of these deodorants."

"The representation and the representation of women in these announcements is overtly sexual."

The Ministry argued that the ads violent advertising code of the India, which States that "cable operators should ensure that the representation of the female form... is good taste and aesthetic and well established standards of good taste and decency".

Corresponding say that none of the undertakings concerned is likely to respond in public to the relocation of the Department because of the sensitivities surrounding the issue.

"Reprehensible step".

There are several advertisements in question, including one in which a woman finds a man so stimulating that she begins to undress deodorant.

The Ministry said the advertising standards Council of India (ASCI) to ensure that ads have been modified or removed air within five days.

A presentation on the site Web of ASCI said that there were a large number of complaints concerning deodorant ads over the past two years and that he acted in some cases.

But the Declaration States that "in many cases, it was decided that advertising is not reprehensible."

"In ASCI, there are very specific guidelines." Any Visual is not likely to cause serious or widespread offence is not a matter of concern. Most of these deodorant ads are played after 11 a.m. on TV outside the family viewing timing, "said the statement.

Affected by the ban include: Pierre sauvage, WD Addiction and axe.

Last year, the Department suspended Fashion TV (FTV) for 10 days for showing topless models at a show.

Officials said FTV had violated several provisions of the regulation of cable television networks showing women in a manner that "obscene".

Sarkozy offers Gaddafi "options."

"" We are not saying that Gaddafi must go into exile. "."It should leave power and soon he, more choice, Mr Sarkozy told journalists.

He organises a meeting of the leaders of the G8 Group of rich nations in the French resort in the North of Deauville.

The Arab uprisings, regulation of the internet and the future of energy nuclear are all be debated at the two-day summit.

The global economy and climate change are also discussed at the gathering for leaders to to United States, Russia, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada.

Thousands of police were deployed in a huge security operation and checkpoints were erected on all roads leading to Deauville.

"Plane ticket".

UK Prime Minister David Cameron, also at the Summit of the G8, has approved the deployment of attack helicopters Apache in Libya, the BBC has learned.

There was speculation on the move after France said that it would be to deploy French Tiger helicopter.

Mr Sarkozy defends the intervention of NATO in Libya, when he spoke to journalists on Thursday night, saying "we not intervene [rebel bastion of] wiped Benghazi would have been off the map".

He thanked not to block the force of the United Nations resolution authorizing despite doubts of Moscow, Russia and said that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has understood that "the blame lies with Col. Gaddafi" and he said "frankly and unambiguously".

Mrs. Bruni-Sarkozy hosted spouses of leaders in a dress that showed off the coast of her pregnancy

He said the late Col. Gaddafi dismantled, "short list of possible destinations."

If Col Kadhafi resigned and withdrew its forces quickly, was declared President Sarkozy, "all options are open".

"Then we will look at what should be the name on the ticket and even what class it must go,"he joked"."

In other remarks, Mr. Sarkozy said:

The violence used to crush the pro-democracy protests in Syria was unacceptable and would be the subject of further talks to rules of summitNew on trade and environment were required to recognize the emerging nations. Mr Sarkozy insisted that France had supported a drive to give a stronger voice to developing nations, in the Monetary Fund (IMF) International despite the support of Paris another European to go to his helmThere must be a new push for peace between Israelis and Palestinians and Europe and the Russia should play a critical role with the United States by forging it

Mr. Cameron also spoke of "pressure" on colonel Gaddafi but Apache helicopters will probably in the operation "within days" rather than the day to the next day, said political editor BBC Nick Robinson.

Correspondents say recent events such as uprisings in the Arab world and the crisis of the Japan gave the G8 a new sense of purpose.

Interim Prime Ministers, the Tunisia and the Egypt - where long-standing leaders were overthrown this year - and the head of the Arab League will also be Deauville for talks on a massive aid plan to help their transition to democracy.

Range of discussions to continue the reading of the main story

[Obama] set is no longer to impose the mark of American democracy in troubled world corners "

  editor Gavin Hewitt BBC Europe Summit opened", French and Russian leaders met to agree on the sale of four Mistral helicopter carriers built in France to the Russia at a cost of at least 400 million euros each (350 m ￡; 565 m $).

Leaders discuss ways to improve global nuclear security after the breakdown of Central Fukushima at the Japan after the earthquake and tsunami, March with Mr Sarkozy, insisting that "when it comes to nuclear materials."", security must take precedence over cost - that we all agree on."

His wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, which hosts the leaders, they allowed spouses in a white dress that showed off the coast of her pregnancy.

The President of U.S., Barack Obama, who led the meeting after a State visit to the United Kingdom organizes a series of one-on-one meetings with the leaders, including President Sarkozy and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan

He already met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for discussions on the long line of two countries on us, plans to create a missile defence shield in Central and Eastern Europe.

President Obama has told reporters that the two men were committed to find an approach which meets the needs of security of both countries, while Mr Medvedev said that the two could work together towards a resolution, but it was unlikely to come in the near future.

Points of friction

Bridget Kendall, Deauville, corresponding diplomatic of the BBC, explains that, despite the appeal of President Obama, in London on Wednesday for democratic unity and leadership, there can be friction at the Summit.

She added that the Russian President objected to the airstrikes on the Libya from the outset, although it can provide to the mediators in this conflict.

Africa will be also represented at the Summit, as it has been since 2003. Newly elected leaders of C?te d'Ivoire, Niger and Guinea are expected to participate in the sessions on the promotion of democracy.

A change in the international influence of emerging powers such as the India and China, which are not in the G8, led to the relevance of the block is challenged.

But, speaking in London on Wednesday, the Obama President dismissed arguments that the rise of the superpowers like China and the India spelled the demise of the American and European influence in the world.

After the Summit ends on Friday afternoon, President Obama is scheduled to go to the Poland, the last stop on a tour of four European countries which began Monday in Ireland.

Email adds to pressure on Warner

email of Jack Warner to Lord Triesman was seen by the new BBC evidence obtained by the BBC appears to back up claims by the former President of the FA Lord Triesman of misconduct by the Vice-President of Fifa Jack Warner.

FIFA Ethics Committee could be requested to open another investigation.

An e-mail from Warner to Triesman in February 2010 should form an essential element of a report by the FA.

In this document, Warner urged the FA to contribute to the cost of rights to show the that World Cup games in the world on the giant screens.

Lord Triesman, speaking before a parliamentary select earlier in may, Committee claimed four members of the Executive Committee of Fifa did what he described as "unethical claims" during the course of bidding for the 2018 World Cup.

Among these claims were claims that Warner had asked the FA to buy TV rights money to build a centre of education in Trinidad and the FA for Haiti 2010 World Cup.

In the e-mail, he wrote: "If you can help in any way by contributing in part or in whole to the purchase of these rights, I am certain that all of Haiti will be forever grateful."

He mentioned that a company had purchased the rights for $1. 6 m (￡ 980,000), but that it would be able to "get this substantially reduced figure."

E-MAIL JACK WARNER TO LORD TRIESMAN

Mr David

My apologies for this late response for your wonderful offer of aid to Haiti for which I am really happy. People need all the help we can give. I made a visit to Haiti the weekend to meet with the President of the Haiti FF to determine first-hand the needs of our family of football last. A report has since been done describing their needs and their proposals to meet these needs in the short, medium and long term. The report is included for your information. On this basis, I leave it to you to determine the best options for the FA to how you all can help.FIFA, in addition to financial assistance, is providing large TV screens placed in the two stages of football (during which stages football can no longer be played in the immediate future) so that all Haitians can see the 2010 World Cup. However before the earthquake owner of rights had accused the alto de $1 USD for rights to a tax which they had agreed to pay. I have since spoken to the owners and can obtain this substantially reduced figure. If you believe that you can help in any way by contributing in part or in whole to the purchase of these rights, I am sure that all of Haiti will be forever grateful.

Thank you again for any help you can give and I look forward to you soon.

Regards

Jack

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FIFA, the ultimate owner of distribution rights in the open air at the 2010 World Cup, told the BBC that no public consultation license was never granted for Haiti.

According to her, he had no discussion anywhere in the world for an amount greater than $1. 6 m, but its response poses serious questions about the case Warner was trying to make arrangements with the FA.

On Wednesday, Fifa announced that its Ethics Board would charge Warner and a member of the Committee Executive companions Mohamed Bin Hammam of corruption.

And although it is not clear if Fifa Ethics Committee adds this last allegation in the indictment met by Warner, it puts even more doubt on the integrity of the governing body of world football.

Warner has not responded to the BBC attempts to contact him about this story, although he denied previous allegations of the Triesman.

Meanwhile, Fifa President Sepp Blatter, writing for the Web in World Football, said: "I take absolutely no joy in seeing my friends and colleagues for many years, dragged before the Ethics Committee."

"I take no joy to see men who stood at my side for two decades, suffer through public humiliation without having been found guilty of any wrongdoing."

"No one is guilty until a judge found him guilty beyond reasonable doubt".

The FA has launched its own investigation, call the James Dingemans QC to compile a report for Fifa.

Watch the documentary from the BBC Panorama of Fifa: shame of the Football? the iPlayer (UK)

Kolo Toure banned for six months

International Toure of Ivory Coast joined Manchester City in 2009
Manchester City Kolo Toure Defender will miss the start of next season after be handed a ban of six months of football all for not having a drugs test.

The ban is dated back to March 2, when the provisional suspension of Toure began.

He is free to play on 2 September, but it will be also tested the target for a period of two years from May 26.

"This has been a difficult period, and I am sad to have missed the triumph of team securing football Champions League and the cup of England," Toure said.

"But I am relieved to learn that I will be able to return to football in September and to thank the commission of the FA for their understanding."

An independent regulatory commission, which might have been something of a warning issued to a ban of two years of sentence, reached the verdict after a hearing Thursday.

Touré has admitted the offence - his first - unlike rule 3 of the doping regulations 2010-2011 FA. But the Committee took into account the circumstances behind his use of tablets of water belonging to his wife.

On 4 March, the manager of Arsenal Arsene Wenger - Toure in England which was introduced by signing him - revealed: "he wants to control his weight a bit because that is where it has a few problems and it has taken the product of his wife."

"It is a boy who has a life of its own, a very honest life." I simply think it is a mistake. ?

Led by Christopher Quinlan QC, the commission was satisfied that Toure did not intend to improve athletic performance or hide the use of a substance performance-enhancing.

A member of the Group of experts felt it should not have been banned for more than three months, but the majority disagreed.

Quinlan, said: "the test in the evaluation of any reduction in what would otherwise be the minimum sentence of two years suspension is degree of player misconduct." The player has agreed a fault and we are in agreement with this concession.

"He has committed a fault in limited and superficial, efforts he makes on the tablets of water;" the controls that it formulated on these tablets were inadequate and fell some way below what it would be reasonable to expect a professional footballer in these circumstances.

"In setting the suspension period took account of all relevant issues we have read and heard at the hearing.".

"The period of suspension proposed by Mr. Lewis QC has been a step in excess of three months." With respect, we disagree. In our view, the period of suspension is one of the six months beginning on March 2, 2011. ?

The decision means that it cannot participate in a game of football or any other football-related activity that the fight against doping programs education or rehabilitation, until the expiration of his ban.

The decision supplements a nightmare for Toure season, which began with him losing the capitanat of Manchester City for Carlos Tevez on 18 August.

Touré has been tested in the Manchester derby in February, while he was an unused substitute. Ivory Coast defender was suspended on March 3, after that her a - sample tested positive for "a specified substance."

Touré is under contract with the city until the summer of 2013. He was one of several high - profile arrivals Summer 2009 as Manager while Mark Hughes has spent more than 100 m ￡ on new players.

Spirit of Barcelona

The lights go down in the Camp Nou stadium.

A roar rises 110 000 people that fill the stands.

Two of the best players of Barcelona, Carles Puyol and Xavi, depleted the field brandishing a Catalan flag.

There is a huge cheer and thousands of cameras flash like stars in the steep slopes of the stage.

It's an incredible feeling being here, and it is not yet a game.

It is the victory of the end of the FC Barcelona (Barcelona) turn around their city, in beating arch rival Real Madrid to win the Championship of Spain.

"It's a feeling of a country," said a girl. "The land of Catalonia".

The legacy of Franco

General Francisco Franco disliked the independence of spirit of Catalonia. During his long dictatorship, he persecuted the region.

He helped Real Madrid, while FC Barcelona, owned by his fans, became a symbol of democracy and of the resistance.

With Franco longer and now largely autonomous Catalonia, the club plays still strongly on its history, project an image of the plucky underdog.

It requires a degree of loyalty and sense that other clubs can probably not.

Each of the players when they take the microphone to thank the crowd, exclaimed: "visca Barca, visca Catalunya!

Even the foreign players, as Argentine Lionel Messi, say, "live Catalonia."

The foreign players must be also Catalan, told me a fan. "They feel what we feel, love of country, Catalonia."

As the file fans outside the stadium under a sky lit up by Fireworks, I stop a father and son, both with the band la Barca.

Players are proud to be part of the Catalan club links

They are not Catalan, they say, but Cameroon, such as former la Barca, striker Samuel Eto'o ' o.

"Barca is a team of nice, this is my team," said the father.

I asked him if he felt more a part of this city, by supporting Barcelona.

"Yes,"he says. ".Here, everyone belongs. ?

I know it's true.

My first visit to live in Barcelona as a 19-year-old teaching English. I had little understanding of the offside rule and even less interest in football.

But one night, having dinner with a friend near the stadium, a huge cheer derived in through the open window.

But Barca played away, and this has been the sound of people at home, watching the match on television and cheering as if they were.

Celebrations when Barca won - and often they have done then submerged as now - the entire city. And I wanted to be a part of it.

It was a time Golden in support of Barcelona - the so-called "dream team" Johan Cruyff season, when the Dutch football legend led Barca in unique style they use today.

Cruyff remains a hero in the city, even if, in the workplace now of the 1960s, his coach days are long behind him.

The language Catalan, prohibited under the dictatorship of Franco is still widely spoken

It is the example of the kind of loyalty that aspires to Catalonia.

In 1973, as a better player in the world, he turned fortunes of Barcelona around when he chooses to Real Madrid.

Then, he defies the ban of Franco of Catalan names and gave his own son the name of the patron saint of Catalonia, Jordi.

When I met with Cruyff, he was still bounding with energy - but a little incomprehensible.

He speaks many languages, but his brain works so quickly - as he did in his career - all you get is two words at the beginning of a story, one from the middle and then he will have to say :, "... whatsoever." Can you see? ?

It uses this "absolutely" a lot.

When he shows me his legendary Cruyff turn, he says: "" take you it - there there, balance, that this is, may not make him if he is not, then you can here, or whatever you see? ""

I have an idea just what he said, but the field I've seen this work.

Start em young

The whistle goes to the meeting of young people. Boys are aged 12 to 14 years, and they already play in the style of la Barca invented by Cruyff.

Youth players are taught the moral principles of the club

Barcelona Youth Academy is another gift of Dutch.

He had seen what youth a strong academy might do to his former club, Ajax and imported the idea.

Youth, Cree mother game to support drown in others.

You have the feeling that she would like to tackle this Defender itself and give his son a clear shot on goal.

Part of work of the Academy is to protect young players from their own parents. Some of the boys here will be the next superstar, and some of the mothers are auditioning for the part.

Currently, Gucci handbags are false, but they know if their son has the talent, one day they will be real.

The Academy trains boys from the age of 11, and not only in the arts of football.

Equally important, they are, are the principles of humility, teamwork and commitment. This is another reason why the fans here are so proud of their club.

"FC Barcelona is a family", say a group of young Catalan girls. "They train players to be decent people."

But as anyone who has seen that important a match you says it, that they can be quite decent dive too, when things did not go their way.

Apache UK to join the mission of the Libya

 Apache helicopter is prized by the troops due to its hardiness and versatility The UK sends four Apache attack helicopters to the mission in Libya, after approval by the Prime Minister.

They allow faster attacks on a wide range of smaller targets in urban areas.

Apache helicopters, normally based at Wattisham, Suffolk, should go into operation within days.

Downing Street, said Col Kadhafi is "on the run" and hopes for the deployment of the Apaches can help to deliver the final blow to the NATO mission.

Intelligence is said to show that the Libyan leader moves between hospitals in the region of Tripoli in the belief that it is the only way that it will be safe, and officials believe that the regime could be starting to "break".

Apache helicopters and their pilots, who are part of the Air Corps, are currently on exercise in the Mediterranean.

Was speculation on the move since Monday, after the France said it would deploy French Tiger helicopter and the UK would send to Apache.

The final decision on their deployment was with David Cameron, who earlier Thursday had requested more information on possible risks, while he was en route to the Summit of the G8 in France.

Political Chief Editor BBC Nick Robinson, said that the Prime Minister is determined that the deployment will not be seen as a desperate attempt to unblock military but rather as an example of the United Kingdom turn the heat on the regime.

Continue reading the main story  crew: 2 main weapon: 16 missiles, anti-tank Hellfire length: 17.76 m (58 ft transplant) Rotor span: mineral m (48 feet) cruise speed: 161 km (259) range: 334 537 km mission Max duration: 2 h 45 min

Source: AugustaWestland

More than two months after he ordered the military action, Mr. Cameron has taken a decision that he knows is full of risks, our correspondent adds.

The deployment of the Apaches in Libya means there is less chance of civilian casualties in the operations which are currently based on the use of aircraft Tornado and Typhoon.

But the Apaches could be targeted themselves that they operate at low altitude and Libyan forces loyal to Col. Qaddafi still have access to thousands of surface-to-air missiles.

The deployment has been discussed at a meeting of the Council of national security to Downing Street, the United Kingdom Thursday.

1973 Of the UN Security Council resolution authorized air strikes to protect Libyan civilians from attacks by forces loyal to Col. Qaddafi.

The vote of the United Nations followed the violent repression of demonstrations against the regime of colonel Gaddafi and strikes against the forces of Col. Gaddafi in support of rebels began March 19.

Victims of a conflict of Colombia appointed

 Aboriginal communities have suffered some of the worst violence the remains of approximately 10 000 people had disappeared during the internal armed conflicts of the Colombia have now been identified.

The Minister of the Interior Colombian, German Vargas Lleras, made the announcement at a press conference in Bogota.

Among the dead were victims of abduction buried in anonymous graves of massive.

Members of the family will soon lay their parents to rest and will have the right to claim compensation from the Government.

A total of 438 families were told immediately that their parents have been found. The rest will be informed in the days and weeks to come.

They will be entitled to claim up to $10,000 (￡ 6 000) in compensation from the Government.

The identified remains are from the last two decades of internal conflict of 50 years of Colombia.

For more than 40 years, the Colombia saw fighting and violence by the guerrillas, the paramilitaries and the drug traffickers and security forces.

A spokesman for the Colombian Interior Ministry told the BBC that forensic scientists had used advanced finger-printing technology to find missing persons.

Experts are still trying to identify another remains 10 000, but their advanced state of decomposition makes a slow task.

New law victim

Analysts said the Government of President Juan Manuel Santos tent currently to heal the wounds old bitter conflict in the country.

On Tuesday, the Senate approved legislation to compensate the victims of the civil conflict of long duration in the country and return the land to millions of displaced persons.

One of the objectives is to return the land up to four million people forced from their homes by rebels, the paramilitaries and the traffickers.

For more than 40 years, the Colombia saw fighting and violence by the guerrillas, the paramilitaries and the drug traffickers and security forces.

Iraqi cleric threatens us troops

  the Mehdi Army is still a force to be reckoned with which says its Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr leader and militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr has threatened to take up arms against US troops unless they leave the country at the end of the year.

In a rare interview, he told the BBC he believed that American forces could not be established in an agreement to withdraw from Iraq.

The United States still have approximately 46,000 soldiers in Iraq, due to him having withdrawn in January 2012.

On Thursday, tens of thousands of followers of the imam rallied in Baghdad, the call for Americans to leave.

The Pentagon has been pressing the Iraqi Government to decide soon whether it will ask some to stay beyond the deadline.

In Sadr City, Baghdad's Moqtada al-Sadr stronghold, supporters marched in military formation, their boots trampling on the flags of the United States, United Kingdom and Israel.

It was members of the Mehdi Army, a Shiite militia which fought a bitter sectarian war American invasion.

They sported a new uniform - gone was the trademark of black shirts of the past. Instead, they wore the colours of the Iraqi flag - red, white and black - with Allah Akbar (God is great) affixed through the medium.

It was an attempt to transform a source of contention spent sectarian in a broad nationalist appeal.

Message appears to tell us - we're in this together, the Iraqi Shiites or Sunnis, against the Americans.

Growing confidence

There was no weapon in evidence but, speaking of the BBC, Moqtada al-Sadr said that the Mehdi army was still a fighting force with which it takes.

Demonstrations were held in the suburb of primarily Shia Sadr City

"I know that the Iraqi Government is under considerable pressure from the US occupier, to enable them to stay in Iraq" he said in the Holy City of Najaf.

"If the Americans withdraw, we will be reactivating of the Mehdi Army." At this time, their activities are frozen, but if the Americans remain, will change.

"We are still the resistance and we can even hit their bases, troops and equipment until they are at Iraq.

Until January, Moqtada al-Sadr has spent most of the past two years in exile in Iran, squeezed out by a combined us and Iraqi military effort.

But the elections last year marked a turning point in his fortune. His party did better than expected in the survey, and now it is back in Iraq, with seats in Parliament and a growing sense of confidence.

The Americans still have thousands of troops in Iraq, and nervous of the growing influence of the Iran, they make it clear that they would like to keep some of them in the country beyond the end of this year.

But, in order to do this, they must be invited to stay by the Iraqi Government. And Moqtada al-Sadr seems determined to stand as the man who pushed the.

Rivals in war

President Saleh has said, he will not resign and leave the Yemen despite the pressure of mounting demonstrations and widespread to the Yemen opposition is currently two quarters of parallel power: a popular revolution inspired by the "Arab spring" and a struggle of power elite.

Competition between rival factions of elites has been brewing for several years and has intensified as President of long-standing service of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, focused to power around his family.

Each faction cultivates clients and proxy servers across the political spectrum, in the departments of the Government and the military, as well as among the traditional community leaders.

Fighting erupted on Monday between units loyal to Mr. Saleh and the supporters of a rival family, the al-Ahmars, who hold a range of important social and political positions.

Sadeq al-Ahmar is supreme leader of the most powerful tribal grouping of Yemen, Rachid Confederation. His brother, Himyar, was Vice-President of the Parliament, until his resignation in March to join the revolution.

Forces loyal to President Saleh moved against the Sheikh Sadeq al-Ahmar Monday compound established opposition

A third brother, Hussein, organized of tribal militias to fight in a civil war of long duration in the Northern Saada province, near the border with Saudi Arabia.

The fourth and most eminent brother, Hameed is a tycoon and rich business opposition politician who has the mobile network of Sabafon and a television channel called Suhail TV.

Hameed appears in the speech to the sides of the candidate of the opposition in the last presidential campaign and rallies in 2006 and provides financial support to the coalition of the opposition.

A few years ago, he met an American official in the capital Sanaa, Yemen and revealed, according to the Washington Post, a plan secret to overthrow Mr. Saleh by organizing mass demonstrations and "controlled chaos".

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independent young activists demand a political configuration more progressive which may contain factions responsible Yemen elites, "

quote end to the revolution in Tunisia overthrew President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January"Hameed responded to an obvious political opportunity.

The first wave of anti-Government protests in Sana'a were largely coordinated by the established opposition coalition and mobile network of Hameed Sabafon sends messages to organize protest time and location.

Hameed - and other businessmen Yemeni - would also be financial support to people living within the camp of protest.

But the momentum behind the revolution quickly grew beyond the control of top down opposition established.

Generational transition

Independent young activists demand a political configuration more progressive that can empower the elites of the Yemen factions and giving more authority to the institutions of the State.

The current into the elite power struggle comes in a generational transition, with power passing through the Patriarch of the family al-Ahmar, Sheikh Abdullah end who died in 2007, his son.

At the same time, eldest son of Mr. Saleh, Ahmed Ali and nephews Tarik, Yahya and Amar - command the elite security and intelligence units, trained and funded by Western Governments - are also positioning for the succession.

Continue reading of history main Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar is the leader in global Rashid tribal Confederation, one of the main groups of tribal YemenHis Abdullah bin Hussein al-Ahmar - deceased father in 2007 - based brother Hamid al-Ahmar of the Islamist Islah opposition partySheikh Sadiq is a prominent businessman and member of Islah; He has repeatedly called for the resignation of Mr. Saleh another brother, Sheikh Hussein Bin Abdullah al-Ahmar, resigned the President Council governing popular in February on the shooting of President Saleh protestersLike, the Ahmars are the Zaidi Shi'a Islam branchWhile most Yemenis are Sunni Shaf'istsThe agreement of power-sharing which was concluded between Sheikh Abdullah and Mr. Saleh during the 1980s and 1990 has to be renegotiated by their heirs.

The loyalty of a third player of regime, senior Army Commander Gen Ali Mohsin al-Ahmar, will play an important role in the determination of the outcome of the current clashes.

"Proxy war".

He command the 1st armoured division tank and leads the Northwest region, one of the four military divisions in the Yemen.

Confusion, Gen Mohsin is a close relative of Mr. Saleh, but it is not linked to the al-Ahmar family. He led the first military campaign in the Saada war, which began in 2004, and obvious tensions between General Mohsin and family of gradually became President during the war.

GEN Mohsin was said to oppose the growing importance of the eldest son of President Saleh, Ahmed Ali, whose division of the Republican Guard was also posted within the zone of conflict.

In 2008, the political elite of the Yemen has been buzzing with rumors of clashes between the Mohsin Gen and Ahmed Ali, eldest son of Mr. Saleh. And Yemeni newspapers began to report on a proxy war between the forces of two men, under the guise of quashing rebels of Saada.

In 2009, when Saudi Arabia deployed air and ground forces to quash the cross-border of the rebel incursion, military planners of President Saleh has presented Saudi pilots with the coordinates for a possible air strike, which the Saudis made was the location of the headquarters of Gen Mohsin.

General publicly deserted Mohsin Saleh President in March, after an attack of sniper the camp protest in Sanaa. Since then, under his command tank battalions were deployed at strategic locations in the whole of the capital.

We, the soldiers killed by a bomb Afghan

 about 200 foreign soldiers were killed in Afghanistan so far this year seven US soldiers were killed by a bomb in the South of the Afghanistan, American officials say.

The incident is the most deadly single attack on foreign troops in a month. Initially, NATO confirmed the death but refused to disclose the nationalities.

Earlier, a NATO helicopter crashed in the East of the Afghanistan, killing one soldier, officials said.

About 200 foreign soldiers were killed by militants in Afghanistan so far this year.

Tafsir Khogyani, Commander of the border to the South of the Afghanistan police, told the BBC Sarwary Bilal in Kabul: "according to our initial information from police Coalition and Afghan went to destroy a container Taliban who had explosives and weapons." As soon as the helicopter landed and were patrolling the other forces of ISAF, the explosion took place.

"It took place in the district of Shorabak 19 kilometres (12 miles) from the Pakistani border."

Shorabak district lies between the districts of Registan and Spin Boldak.

Spin Boldak police that Chief Gen Abdul Raziq told the BBC that insurgents had been allowed in the region only two months ago.

Contested claim

During this time, led by NATO forces say that they have pushed Taliban fighters in a district in the Eastern province of Nuristan.

Local officials said up to 500 insurgents seized the Doab district on Wednesday.

The mission of international security challenges the account given by local leaders. "At no point was the centre of district of saturation, the Taliban were never in control,", said the spokesman for the ISAF Maj Tim James.

Afghan troops and NATO arrived in the district Wednesday afternoon and made a number of air strikes, he said.

"The area quiet Afghan troops and NATO much in control," said Maj. James.

It is very difficult to confirm the claims of NATO or how far their control extends in the district. The Governor of the province said that close to 30 insurgents were killed on Wednesday - but questions remain on the comings and goings of hundreds of others.

Our correspondent says that the mountainous area has several hideouts.

He said officials in Nuristan warning for more than a year that the Government and NATO should do more to counter the militant threat in the region.

HIS attacks on shops belonging to Somalis

 more than 50 shops owned by Somalis in the city of Port Elizabeth in South Africa were attacked and looted by local residents.

Police said four shops had been burned and about 200 Somalis living near the premises of the store had fled the disorders.

A leader of the Somali community told the BBC that there was some resentment in the region on the success of the Somali traders.

At least 62 people have died in attacks on foreigners which ravaged the country three years ago.

Correspondents say that in areas poor, foreign workers are often blamed for making homes and jobs in the local community.

"Bound".

"About 200 Somalis fled their shops, where a large number of them live, when other residents began to attack," Captain Andre Beetge, the Eastern Cape of the South Africa police force, is quoted by the South African as Press Association saying.

Capt Beetge put the problem to the rivalry business and said the situation was contained through the early hours of Thursday morning and people were now returning to their properties.

In total, 52 stores were looted and three were burned in the area of Motherwell and three shops were looted and a burned in Kwadwesi, the police said.

Abdirahman Yusuf Ahmed, a spokesman for the Somali community in Eastern Cape, said a shopkeeper for Somalia was hospitalized after he was tied in his shop when he was burned.

Mr. Ahmed told BBC Somali Service which, in a local residents had tried to help when the attacks began.

But the crowds ignored attempts at intervention and settled in our shop one Somali belonging to the other.

He said that recent local elections could have disturbed xenophobic sentiments in the region.

"Some parts were campaign they would expel aliens if they succeeded in elections", he said.

Police: Bomber car hitting NW Pakistan, 14 injured

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - a car bomber struck a police facility in a cantonment of the army in the main Northwest city of Pakistan Wednesday at the beginning, said police. At least 14 people were injured in the latest attack in Pakistan since the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

Target of the bomber appeared to be a building belonging to the Department of criminal investigations of the police, but also the Pakistani army facilities are nearby, said Liaquat Ali Khan, a senior police in the field officer.

The building collapsed after the explosion of the morning, and authorities were looking for bodies or survivors in the rubble, he said.

No group immediately not claimed responsibility for the attack. But since 2 may raid U.S. Navy SEALs who killed the Chief of al-Qaeda, the Pakistani Taliban have claimed at least three attacks in the country.

More recently, the activist group said that he is behind an armed extremist team who attacked a Pakistani naval base in the South of the city of Karachi late Sunday and prompted the impasse over 18 hours which killed 10 people.

Four militants were also killed during the fighting, which has raised concerns about militant infiltration of security forces and whether the nuclear arsenal is safe.

Speech Obama to the British Parliament, has praised the strength, humility

London - in a historic speech to the British Parliament today, the Obama President has insisted that then that a new world order has been shaped, the United States, Britain and their allies will continue to play an essential role to bring peace and prosperity in the world.

Both of € a million is still denied their basic human rights issue of who they are, what they think, or the type of Government that they live as we are the nations more willing to defend the values of tolerance and self-determination that lead to peace and dignitya €

Large-scale speech, which has also focused on the economy, nuclear proliferation and the importance of education, received a standing ovation from Parliament and was commended for its topics human State and tones.

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"He has recognized the strength of the past but insists on the need to transform the values confirmed by Anglo-American relations, their origins in universal values," said James Ellison, school of history at Queen Mary, University of London. "It was a speech of interdependence and multilateralism." Obama s gone a long way today to extend the history of America beyond Bush.

"I can't think of an American President to make a such sensitive speeches in Europe for some time", he added, noting that it struck the right balance between the force and humility.

The speech was the first time that an American President had addressed the Parliament in the historical framework of Westminster Hall, who played a central role in the Government of the nation for 900 years. Only three other foreign dignitaries have been granted this honour since World War II: Charles de Gaulle, Nelson Mandela and Pope Benedict XVI.

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Obama rejected the idea that the emergence of new superpowers made the alliance not less relevant. While China, India, Brazil and other nations assume the responsibilities of global leadership, ties with the United States and Europe remain a € ?indispensable € to the objective of a century that is more peaceful, more prosperous and more just, a

But he promised in the future, a more subtle approach to Foreign Affairs referring to the position of the United States has already taken on the Libya. "We will proceed with humility, and knowledge that we do not dictate results abroad." Ultimately, freedom must be won by the people themselves, not imposed from without. But us can and must stand with those who struggle as well. ?

At a press conference held jointly with Prime Minister David Cameron earlier in the day, Obama talks about winning the war in Libya as a "slow continuous process."

He returned to the theme of the North Africa and the Middle East in his address to Parliament, stressing that the United States and Britain supported those struggling for democracy, but implying that support did not mean military intervention.

"We must show that we back up our words deeds," he said. "This means investing in the future of these nations this transition to democracy, starting with the Tunisia and the Egypt - expanding trade links; by helping demonstrate them that freedom brings prosperity. ?

He said that, while many of the problems of the past decade have been retreating, the future would present major challenges. If while a large part of the speech reaffirmed the close relationship between Britain and the United States, the President also acknowledged that "a new chapter in the shared history" would require a building "new partnerships", to adapt to new circumstances and remake ourselves to meet the requirements of a new era

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European powers seek Security Council of the United Nations to condemn the Syria (Reuters)

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - European nations moved Wednesday to have the Security Council of the United Nations to adopt a resolution condemning the Syria for its bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators, said diplomats.

Britain, France, Germany and the Portugal distributed a draft resolution to the Council of the nation 15 despite the risk of a right of veto by the Russia.

The draft, obtained by Reuters, "condemned the systematic human rights violations, including killings, arbitrary detentions, disappearances and the torture of peaceful protesters, human rights defenders and journalists by the Syrian authorities."

The text, which explains the Syrian actions may amount to crimes against humanity, also requires that Damascus to comply with an investigation of the United Nations Human Rights Council and launch its own "credible and impartial investigation" on violence against the demonstrators.

Contrary to the resolutions adopted this year on the Libya, the project does not sanctions United Nations, or of military intervention against the Syria. But it urged States not step to provide weapons to Damascus.

The text reached the members of the Council a day after security forces said Syrian human rights group killed at least 1,100 civilians in their two month campaign to crush anti-Government protests.

"The situation warrants action by the Security Council", said U.N. Ambassador Jose Filipe Moraes Cabral of the Portugal.

But he warned that it is not easy to get a resolution on the Syria through the Council of a possible Russian veto. "I do not underestimate the complex issues in approving this resolution," he told journalists.

UN diplomats said that a vote on the resolution was not likely before next week.

PREVENT A RIGHT OF VETO

If the Security Council remains silent it "would only embolden the Syrian leaders in the war that they lead to their own people," said Philippe Bolopion of Human Rights Watch. "A strong message of the Council is since a long time, and countries would oppose have much explaining to do."

A previous attempt to push the Council condemning the actions of the forces of security Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has failed after the Russia, the India and China are clearly indicated that they would oppose it.

The Europeans pushed for a declaration, but sent first said that a resolution would be easier to pass through a divided Council.

Statements require unanimous approval, while the resolutions need only nine votes Yes and no vetoes of five permanent members - the United States, Great Britain, the France, the Russia and China. Resolutions, contrary to the statements, are legally binding.

Cabral said he was confident of nine votes for the resolution, but avoiding a right of veto could be more difficult.

The American delegation was less enthusiastic about the European push for a resolution to condemn the Syria concerns, he may be blocked by the Russia, diplomats of the Nations United said.

American authorities clearly that would rather have no action of the Council a veto of the resolution, said sent. Washington fears such an outcome would send a signal to Assad that the international community is divided on the issue, that he could interpret as a green light to go up his repression.

Last week, President Dmitri Medvedev said that Russia would not support a resolution of the Council on the Syria - a long-time Moscow ally - if it was similar to a resolution of 17 March authorizing the military intervention in Libya.

(Edited by Christopher Wilson)

Obama promises no "break" in the offensive in Libya

LONDON - Firmly united against Muammar Gadhafi, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron promised on Wednesday a relentless and punishing pummeling of his forces in Libya but also pleaded for patience for an effort with no clear end in sight. Obama ruled out a deadline for ending NATO's military assault, saying only that it would be over "in a timely fashion."

"gadhafi and his regime need to understand that there will not be a letup in the pressure that we are applying," Obama said, even as Libyan rebels clashed with mercenaries fighting for Gadhafi and less than a day after NATO intensified its bombardment of the Libyan capital. Britain's leader, hosting a news conference with Obama, said the two agreed on a need to "be turning up the heat in Libya."

The Libyan crisis and the broader Arab uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East will be major topics as Obama, Cameron and leaders of other wealthy nations head to the Group of Eight gathering in the Normandy resort of DeauvilleFrance, for talks that begin Thursday. The world's top economies are scrambling to figure out how to help countries with democratic transitions without being seen as heavy-handed.

For Obama and Cameron, the bullish language on Gadhafi came as the international community has stepped up both the air campaign and diplomatic efforts against him in a bid to break a virtual stalemate between the rebels in the east of Libya and Gadhafi, who maintains a stranglehold on most of the west.

The NATO mission, authorized by a United Nations mandate, is intended to save lives but not to create a regime change - as Cameron reminded everyone on Wednesday.

In essence, however, Gadhafi has become a target, as has his presidential compound. NATO's official line is that the compound is a command-and-control center and that it is not trying to kill Gadhafi.

Despite the unified Anglo-American position, there were signs of growing resistance from Russia, which did not veto the intervention at the United Nations, at the extent and intensity of the bombing campaign.

On Wednesday, Russia's NATO envoy Dmitry Rogozin, went so far as to accuse unnamed NATO members of laying plans for a ground invasion and exceeding the U.N. mandate.

"We do not understand why, instead of an embargo on delivery of weapons, there suddenly was introduced a complete sea blockade of Libya, why pass." "gadhafi was personally declared as a legitimate target despite (the fact) that this U.N. resolution was directed at stimulating a political dialogue between the opposing sides," Rogozin said in Brussels, according to the state RIA Novosti agency.

Away from Tripoli, Libyan rebels clashed Wednesday with Sudanese mercenaries fighting for Gadhafi near the border with Sudan. Gadhafi has long provided arms, training and vehicles to various rebel groups in Sudan.

The resolve and political will of the nations involved in challenging Libya's government are being tested as Gadhafi remains entrenched.

"I believe that we have built enough momentum that as long as we sustain the course that we're on, that he is ultimately going to step down," Obama said. He refused to say how long that would take, calling any such artificial timeline. But he added that if the coalition shows resolve and pours in resources, "we're going to be able to achieve our mission in a timely fashion."

"The two key things here are patience and persistence," Cameron added.

Neither is in huge supply in the United States given that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan U.S.-led have raged on for years.

The U.S. and British leaders said that Gadhafi has seen his military power and grip on the country since this campaign began, under United Nations authority, degraded as an emergency effort to protect the civilians who have been challenging him. The United States and Britain remain adamant that they will not send in ground forces even as the try to support the rebels other ways.

"Ultimately this is going to be a slow, steady process in which we're able to wear down the regime forces," Obama said. Pushing back against those who may question the success of the effort, Obama raised the prospect of some false perception that NATO had some secret air assets it wasn't employing, and then he shot it down.

"Once you rule out ground forces, then there are going to be some inherent limitations to our air strike operations," Obama said. "It means that the opposition on the ground in Libya is going to have to carry out its responsibilities."

That opposition remains weak. And NATO, the North Atlantic military alliance that took over command of the campaign from the U.S. on March 31, appears to have no clear exit strategy. Two of the allies, Britain and France, have descended into public squabbling over bringing the fight closer to Gadhafi with attack helicopters, something France plans to do but that Cameron avoided addressing directly when asked Wednesday.

Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim reacted angrily to Obama's assertion that Gadhafi should leave power against the threat of a relentless campaign.

"Gadhafi's destiny, Gadhafi's future, is for the Libyan nation to decide," Ibrahim said. "It would be a much more productive statement to say that the Libyan people need to engage in an inclusive, peaceful, democratic, transparent, political process in which they can thing the shape of their political system and the leaders of their system""," he said.

On the other hand, rebel media spokesman Jalal Gallal said Obama's statement was "very positive news." "We are on the same wavelength."

"We all are agreed in a vision of a democratic Libya without Gadhafi, his family or any member of his inner circle." We also concur that there will be no foreign troops on the ground. We need the international community, the air cover, until the objective is met, and that we have. "it is just going to take a little longer than necessary."

He repeated the rebels' call for heavy weapons to match Gadhafi's arsenal: "given the right equipment and training, we can do the job ourselves."

Witnesses in Libya have reported African mercenary fighters shooting at protesters or being captured by anti-Gadhafi forces. Some were flown in to put down the rebellion, but most fighters were already in the war-torn country.

Meanwhile, in NATO airstrikes overnight, British aircraft hit four of Gadhafi's armored vehicles near the Libyan city of Zlitan, British military spokesman Maj. Gen. John Lorimer said in a statement. Tornado and Typhoon jets also destroyed a radar station in the coastal city of Brega during the Tuesday night raid.

Libya's deputy foreign minister, Khaled Kaim, called on the South African leader Jacob Zuma to push forward negotiations to end the three-month conflict when he arrives next week in Tripoli.

Zuma is the highest-ranking politician to visit Gadhafi since the fighting began in Libya.

Kaim told The Associated Press the Gadhafi government is hoping Zuma will help arrange a cease-fire between Libyan government forces, NATO and the rebels, and oversee a transitional period.

Citing a deep mistrust of Gadhafi and emboldened by NATO strikes, the rebels have insisted Gadhafi must leave power before any negotiations can take place.

Throwing into doubt the effectiveness of Zuma's visit, the South African leader will not be meeting representatives of the interim government based in the de-facto rebel capital of Benghazi.

Kaim said there was no need for Zuma to consult the interim government, on grounds it does not represent most of the rebel insurgents currently battling Gadhafi's forces.