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http://article.wn.com/view/2011/07/28/Stone_me_Joss_is_back_on_song_after_her_last_album_sunk_with/
Friday, 29 July 2011
Stone me! Joss is back on song after her last album sunk without trace
Joss Stone: LP1 (Stone'd) Verdict: Another fresh start, but an auspicious one Rating: We have been here before with Joss Stone. Since she arrived eight years ago with her debut album The Soul Sessions — a striking collection of mostly obscure soul covers — her career has been characterised by a series of false dawns. Her chart-topping second album, Mind Body & Soul, featured original material for the first time and was talked up as her ‘real debut’. Then came 2007’s Introducing Joss Stone, a more contemporary sounding effort that she described as ‘truly me’. Rock chic: LP1 is Joss Stone's fifth album in eight years Now, on her own label, we...
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Gaza children claim kite-flying record
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) ? Thousands of Gaza children sent a sea of colorful kites soaring into the sky Thursday in an attempt to break a world...
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http://article.wn.com/view/2011/07/28/Gaza_children_claim_kiteflying_record/
New Ivory Coast president committed to 'national reconciliation'
Ouattara: "I am pres. of all Ivorians" Washington (CNN) -- Ivory Coast's new president plans to make national harmony his top priority as he tries to pull his crisis-ridden country together after many months of political turbulence and what one just-released report calls a now-prevailing "climate of fear." "I am the president of all Ivorians, without distinction of race, religion or region," said Alassane Ouattara, speaking in an interview with CNN amid criticism that his supporters are targeting the backers of his former rival, former President Laurent Gbagbo. In the United States to meet with officials, including United Nations leaders and President Barack Obama, Ouattara will make a...
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http://article.wn.com/view/2011/07/28/New_Ivory_Coast_president_committed_to_national_reconciliati/
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Is Algeria immune from the Arab spring?
The Algerian government is working to prevent North Africa's revolutionary tide from reaching its shores. Political analyst Hamoud Salhi considers for the BBC's...
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On air at 1100GMT: Hackgate, Resignations & Schadenfreude
This topic was discussed on World Have Your Say on 18 July, 2011. Listen to the programme here.
Heads have been rolling in the phone-hacking scandal since we spoke last, with the resignations of Rebekah Brooks (who was also arrested yesterday), Les Hinton and Britain's most senior policeman, Sir Paul Stephenson.
News International, Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper publisher posted full-page statements of apology in papers over the weekend.
A lot of you are reading and sharing this editorial from today's Wall St Journal, in which the newspaper speaks up against what it calls "Schadenfreude ... so thick you can't cut it with a chainsaw":
Our readers can decide if we are a better publication than we were four years ago, but there is no denying that News Corp. has invested in the product. The news hole is larger. Our foreign coverage in particular is more robust, our weekend edition more substantial, and our expansion into digital delivery ahead of the pack.
Another blogger, Tim Montgomerie, writes about "a world of black and white, hot and cold and little perspective" in the coverage of and reaction to the hacking-scandal, including the BBC's.
British Prime Minister David Cameron is now only spending a couple of days on his first trip to South Africa, in order to go back to the UK to handle the hacking story.
So here are a few questions to get our teeth into on the 1100GMT programme ...
1. Do the resignations of the senior News Corp executives and the top policeman, plus the apologies from Rupert Murdoch, draw any sort of line under the affair?
2. Is journalism - in particular, investigative journalism - damaged by newspapers turning on other newspapers in the wake of this scandal?
3. Is this story being covered at the expense of other important issues? Or does it raise such important issues that the coverage is warranted?
Video: President pays respects at Norway embassy
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/43902886#43902886
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Amy Winehouse: when grief goes public - Telegraph.co.uk
 Telegraph.co.uk | Amy Winehouse: when grief goes public Telegraph.co.uk In the end, her death was as public as her life. The lifeless body of Amy Winehouse was discovered in her home at 3.54pm on Saturday. Within hours, rumours were circulating on Twitter, before finally being confirmed by police sources, ... 'Amy Winehouse Wanted to Be in the 27 Club,' Passages Co-Founder Says The leader of the pack Blake: My tears will never dry |
Why iPad is stomping Android tabs 24 to 1
The current buzz is that iPad sales may be 24 times as great as sales of Android tablets. Do Android tablets have the same fighting chance that Android phones had of coming back and beating Apple? At the moment, no.
Source: http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/07/25/7162598-why-ipad-is-stomping-android-tabs-24-to-1
Despite Weekend Meetings, Congressional Leaders No Closer to Debt Solution
Precariously short of time, congressional leaders struggled in urgent, weekend-long talks to avert an unprecedented government default, desperate to show enough progress to head off a plunge in stock prices when Asian markets open ahead of the U.S. workweek.
With the White House consigned to the periphery of negotiations, Republicans sought as much as $4 trillion in deficit cuts over a decade as a condition for raising the nation's debt limit.
House Speaker John Boehner hosted a meeting of bipartisan congressional leaders including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Following the meeting, Reid said he was "deeply disappointed in the status of the negotiations."
Reid accused GOP leaders of intransigence, adding he would not accept anything less than a deal that raised the debt limit through 2012.
"Their unwillingness to compromise is pushing us to the brink of a default on the full faith and credit of the United States," he said in a statement. "We have run out of time for politics. Now is the time for cooperation."
Pelosi echoed Reid's sentiments, blaming Republicans for the lack of compromise.
"The delay in bringing forth a solution springs from the Republicans' decision to walk away from 98 percent of the wealthiest people in our country," she said in a statement.
A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, Michael Steel, responded mildly. "Like the President and the entire bipartisan, bicameral Congressional leadership, we continue to believe that defaulting on the full faith and credit of the United States is not an option," he said in a written statement.
Earlier, President Obama huddled for less than an hour Saturday with congressional leaders at the White House after House Speaker Boehner walked away from talks on Friday. Now both sides are determined to produce an outline of a plan before the markets open Monday and if possible before the Asian markets open Sunday night.
The House Republican leadership may release a plan as early as Sunday afternoon to ease potential turmoil in the Asian markets, GOP sources told Fox News.
Both sides are working on a plan that would include no new revenues, spending cuts of more than $1 trillion along with a debt-ceiling increase that is smaller than the spending cuts but would get the country into early next year, a GOP congressional aide said.
At Saturday's meeting, Obama reiterated his opposition to a short-term extension of the debt ceiling, arguing that it could lead to a downgrade in the nation's credit rating.
"As the current situation makes clear, it would be irresponsible to put our country and economy at risk again in just a few short months with another battle over raising the debt ceiling," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a statement. "Congress should refrain from playing reckless political games with our economy. Instead, it should be responsible and do its job, avoiding default and cutting the deficit."
Obama called for Saturday's meeting during a hastily arranged news conference Friday after he found out that Boehner was pulling out of the talks.
"We have run out of time and they are going to have to explain to me how it is that we are going to avoid default," the president told reporters.
Boehner accepted the invitation even while arguing that Obama bore the blame for the collapse of talks. "It's the president who walked away from his agreement and demanded more money at the last minute," Boehner said. "And the only way to get that extra revenue was to raise taxes."
The political theater played out even as the Aug. 2 deadline drew ever nearer. Barring action by then, the Treasury will be unable to pay its bills, and the economic fallout could send interest rates up, threaten the fragile U.S. recovery and send shock waves around the globe.
Yet the deadline pressure has brought the parties arguably no closer to a solution, even though all involved insist they do not want a default. Underscoring the uncertainty, for the first time since talks began Obama declined to offer assurances, when asked, that default would be avoided -- although moments later he said he was confident of that outcome.
Obama said that Boehner left a deal on the table that was better for Republicans than for Democrats since spending cuts totaling $2.6 trillion outweighed new tax revenue of $1.2 trillion, and he said he was losing confidence that the underlying deficit problems will be dealt with even if the debt ceiling is raised. "I've been left at the altar now a couple of times," Obama said wryly.
Even by the recent standards of divided government, Boehner's decision triggered an extraordinary evening Friday as first the Democratic president and then the Republican speaker maneuvered for political position on an issue of enormous national import.
Unspoken, yet unmistakable in all the brinkmanship was the 2012 election campaign, still 18 months away, with the White House and both houses of Congress at stake.
Private, sometimes-secret negotiations had veered uncertainly for weeks, generating reports as late as Thursday that the two sides were possibly closing in on an agreement to slash spending. That triggered a revolt among Democrats who expressed fears the president was giving away too much in terms of cuts to Medicare and Social Security while getting too little by way of additional revenues.
At the same time Obama and Boehner sought to define the clash to their political advantage, their aides provided details of the abortive talks.
Republican aides said Obama had upped his demand for higher taxes during the week. The aides said administration officials had tacitly agreed to $800 billion in new revenue over 10 years but that the White House backed away and wanted $400 billion more.
Additionally, aides said the two sides were not able to bridge their differences over the triggers designed to force Congress to enact both tax reform and cuts to Medicare and other benefit programs by early next year. Both sides also were apart on the size of cuts for Medicaid, the health care program for poor and disabled Americans.
Yet aides on both sides said the negotiations had yielded agreement for cuts of $250 billion from Medicare.
Fox News' Chad Pergram, Chris Wallace and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Wall Street, Washington play chicken over debt
As Congress and the White House drive the country?s budget and debt rating closer to the abyss, investors have greeted the impending calamity with a collective yawn. Why?
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43881033/ns/business-eye_on_the_economy/
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