French Open: Sharapova, Nadal advance; Safin loses

On a day of adieus at the French Open, Maria Sharapova managed to stick around.
Trailing through most of the third set in her toughest test since shoulder surgery, Sharapova pulled out a 6-2, 1-6, 8-6 victory over 11th-seeded Nadia Petrova on Wednesday to reach the third round at Roland Garros, her return to Grand Slam tennis.
"I kind of started stumbling away. Things went in the wrong direction," said Sharapova, who missed the US Open and Australian Open. "I was just glad I could pick myself up and keep fighting."
That she did: Five times, Petrova was one point away from serving for the match. But Sharapova didn't allow her to convert those chances.
"She really showed, even though she has been out for a while, she's willing to compete till the end," Petrova acknowledged.
Sharapova's French Open continues, as does Rafael Nadal's winning streak at Roland Garros — which he extended to a tournament-record 30 matches — but there will be no more trips to the clay-court major for Marat Safin or Fabrice Santoro.
Both are retiring at season's end, and both bowed out Wednesday, albeit in quite contrasting ways, which is fitting, given their polar-opposite styles of play and personalities.
The big-hitting, loud-talking Safin succumbed after a 4½-hour, five-set bit of theater; the spin-mixing, gentlemanly Santoro played all of eight minutes to conclude his loss to Christophe Rochus in a match suspended the night before by darkness.
"My game style was out of date when I arrived on the tour. I got on the tour in the '90s, and my style dated back to the '70s," said Santoro, who tied a French Open record by playing in his 20th French Open. "So when I arrived, I was, you know, 20 years late already."
Safin, meanwhile, entertained as only he can, diving for shots, kicking at the clay in disgust, and gesturing at fans to make even more noise when they got on his case for arguing calls.
The two-time major title winner eventually was beaten by 134th-ranked Josselin Ouanna of France 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4), 4-6, 3-6, 10-8.
"I played terrible," the 20th-seeded Safin said.
He was done as dusk fell, around the time Venus Williams lost the first set of her match against Lucie Safarova. They were told to pack up, because there wasn't enough light

Sania crashes out of French Open singles

Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza crashed out of French Open women's singles event after losing in straight sets to Kazakhstan's Galina Voskoboeva on Tuesday.
Sania went down 4-6 6-7 (3) in a contest lasting a little over an hour-and-a-half.
Sania, who has never gone beyond the second round at Roland Garros, had little match practice going into the clay court event.
The Indian's rustiness was quite evident in the six double faults she committed in the very first set. Sania's failure to convert any of the four break points that she earned only added to her problems.
Voskoboeva converted a crucial break in the seventh game to clinch the first set in 46 minutes.
Sania put up a slightly better show in the second set and cut down on her double faults but 14 unforced errors pulled her back.
After losing her serve twice, Sania broke back to take the set into a tie-breaker. But Voskoboeva, who had lost to Sania in their only past encounter, dominated the proceedings thereafter and clinched the tie-breaker 7-3.
Sania is still in fray in the doubles event where she has teamed up with Taipei's Chia-Jung Chuang.
Sania and Chuang, seeded 14th, will open their campaign against Turk-Belgian pair of Ipek Senoglu and Yanina Wickmayer.

Slumdog kid's father slams Boyle, asks for a house

Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle, who rushed to India on Wednesday to help the film's child stars, was stunned when a child's father accused him of ignoring them.
Some of the children have become homeless after civic authorities razed their shanties. Boyle had come down to offer them help.
However, Rafiq Qureshi, father of Rubina Ali, 9, left their meeting in anger accusing the filmmaker of neglecting them after the film's global success.
"A house is being provided for the kids...we have been listening this for the last five months...I don't see any house coming our way. The shanty that we were living in has already been razed...where are we getting a house from?
"If they are providing us a house, when are they going to do it? Our kids are literally living on the road now," an exasperated Qureshi told a news channel later.
Slumdog producer Christian Colson also participated in the meeting held at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences on the outskirts of the city.
"We are looking for a legal accommodation that should be held by the trust (Jai Ho) to ensure the safety of these kids and it would be properly monitored as well," a calm Boyle told the reporters.
The kids including Azharuddin Ismail M Shaikh, 10, the main child star of the movie, apart from Rubina, were both thrown on the streets after Mumbai civic authorities demolished their shanties on May 14, terming the slum unauthorised.
The producers of the multiple Oscar-award wining underdog drama had earlier announced a setting up Jai Ho Trust to look after the two child stars and ensure that they receive quality education and a house to live in.

Microsoft to launch new Zune this year

Microsoft Corp plans to launch a new version of its Zune portable media player later this year in the United States, incorporating high-definition video, touch screen technology and Wi-Fi connection.
Microsoft said on Tuesday the new Zune, its answer to Apple Inc's popular iPod digital music player, will also come with an Internet browser and a built-in HD radio receiver that offers higher-quality sound than traditional radio. It did not give a price or a specific date except to say it was due in the fall.
The company added new features to Zune's music service last year, enabling users to download music wirelessly and buy songs they hear on the device's built-in FM radio.

Eye in the Sky

Eye in the Sky

The IAF on Thursday inducted the Israeli Airborne Early Warning and Control Systems (AWACS). The system can simultaneously track nearly 250 flying objects within a radius of 800 km. (AFP)

Tendulkar confident about India’s chances in T20 WC

Star Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar reckons that India have enough fire power to retain the Twenty20 World Cup that begins next month in England.
Terming the Indian pace bowling attack as amongst the best in the world, Sachin said: "It is on par with the best. Zaheer, Ishant and RP Singh form a lethal combination, particularly in English conditions. Our seam attack has a lot of variety and would come handy in such conditions. On our day, we can demolish any batting side."
Tendulkar reemphasised the need of adequate rest for the players after a gruelling IPL season. The master batsman, however, said that there was no need to worry about Virender Sehwag’s poor run of form.
"Every player has ups and downs in his career and Viru is no exception. But an on-song Viru is a delight to watch. If he gets one cover drive right, he`ll mesmerise everybody and will again be back to his best. The bowlers will be at his mercy then. He is a superb striker of the ball ... on his day, he can do anything," Tendulkar told a newspaper.
"We come as a package. I am certain this package is the best in business at the moment. This package has everything which is necessary to make us world champions once again. India is the most balanced side in the world and there is no doubt we can defend the title. We have very good cricketers in our side and we have proved that this combination is the deadliest," he added.

Prabhakaran's parents in govt custody: Report

The parents of the now dead Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran are in the "protective custody" of the Sri Lankan government, a media report said Thursday.

Thiruvenkatam Velupillai (76) and his wife Parvathi (71) surrendered to the army several days ago, The Island newspaper quoted a government official as saying.
They were reportedly among the civilians holed up in the no fire zone along the coast in Mullaitivu district before the army launched its final assault against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
Prabhakaran and other LTTE leaders were killed May 18.
"Velupillai and Parvathi were among the early batch of Sri Lankan Tamils to go to India. They settled in Tiruchi," the report said.
They returned to the LTTE zone in northern Sri Lanka in 2003, a year after the Tigers and Colombo signed a Norway-brokered ceasefire agreement. Prabhakaran had fled their home in Jaffna way back in 1972.
Prabhakaran's death and the decimation of the LTTE ended a dragging Tamil separatist conflict that left some 90,000 people dead in Sri Lanka

Afghanistan to get its first cricket board

Afghanistan cricket took another step towards establishing itself Wednesday when President Hamid Karzai gave the go-ahead for creation of the country`s first-ever national cricket board.
The president announced the step during a meeting with the team, which has been elevated to the international arena since the 2001 removal of the Taliban regime, a statement from his office said.
Afghanistan received ODI status for the first time earlier this year when the war-torn country finished in the top six of the 2011 World Cup qualifying event.
They will also attempt to qualify for the 2010 World Twenty20 championships in October.
It underscores a meteoric rise for a sport that only started building here in recent years, as thousands of refugees from years of crushing war started returning from exile in cricket-mad Pakistan after the Taliban was ousted.
The cricketers had previously fallen under the country`s government-funded National Olympic Committee which regulates and manages all major sports in the country.
The cricket team had long called for its own structure and frequently complains about its lack of budget and facilities which fall way behind those of other cricketing nations.
"This is breaking news for the sportsmen of Afghanistan," the team`s secretary general Taj Malook said.
"We will get our own budget and attract the international and government support we need," he said. "This has been much needed."
Karzai will be the patron-in-chief of the new board, which is expected to be set up in the next days, Malook said.

US all set for its own Twenty20 cricket League

With the successful completion of the second Indian Premier League in South Africa, stage is now all set for the American Premier League (APL), and the organisers claim that the APL would revolutionise cricket in the country of Baseball.
Six teams -- Premium Americans, Premium Bangladeshis, Premium World, Premium Indians, Premium Paks and Premium Windies -- would vie for the first APL trophy, the inaugural match of which is scheduled for October 6 at the Home of the Staten Island Yankees and the finals on October 23 and 24.
"Everything is going on schedule. The APL promises to change the face of cricket in the US," Jay Mir, president of the American Sports and Entertainment Group -- the organisers of the APL -- told reporters.
The first edition of the Twenty20 tournament has attracted quite significant sponsorship bids, which Mir said is being finalised and would be announced soon.
Given the large population from the South Asian countries -- India, Pakistan and Bangladesh -- and those from the Caribbean`s residing in the US, organisers are expecting a huge turnout during the cricketing extravaganza to be held in New York and New Jersey.
A large number of international cricketers have already signed up for the tournament, but the names of Indian players have been kept under wraps.

Fifty govt websites to be made disabled friendly

Disabled rights groups have approached the IT ministry with a list of 50 government websites like that of the Indian Railways, Central Information Commission and Income Tax Department which they want to be made disabled friendly.
"We have identified 50 organisations and departments in the government. We have sent a proposal to the IT ministry to make sites of these WCAG (web content accessibility guidelines) 2.0 compliant, thereby making them disabled friendly. The ministry has shown a very positive outlook on this," Javed Abidi, convener of the Disabled Rights Group, said.
According to Abidi, such a move would simplify the Internet interface for people with disability by making the websites compatible with the special software they use to access websites.
"With an aim to enable disabled people to be a part of e-governance, we came to a consensus on the list after discussions with various disability groups across the country. Simple things like booking a rail ticket will be possible for people with visual impairment once the site carries out technical changes," he said.
Abidi, who is also director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) - an umbrella organisation of various NGOs and civil society organisations working on disability issues - said that 99.99 percent of the estimated 5,000 websites and web portals hosted by the government of India listed by the National Information Centre (NIC) can't be accessed by people with disability.
At the e-governance conference in Goa February 12, it was announced that all government websites would be made WCAG 2.0 compliant.
These government websites would now enable web access to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities and photosensitivity.
The challenge, Abidi said, was to make existing sites WCAG 2.0 compliant and sensitise concerned government departments.
"While the IT ministry initiated immediate action and made India's largest sites - india.gov.in and bharat.gov.in - accessible to the disabled, the social justice and empowerment ministry continues to drag its feet. It is ironic that it is this ministry that is supposedly nodal for various issues concerning disabled people," he said.
Abidi added the website of the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped (NIVH) was not accessible to visually impaired people.
"Similarly, the CCPD (Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities) website is still not accessible to people with disabilities. And they are supposedly the watchdogs for any Disability Act violations that may occur," he said.

Soon, vehicles that drive on their own

Ever imagined reading a book or watching a movie in your car, while your vehicle guides itself through the traffic and navigates on its own? Well, thanks to a new technology called ''autonomous vehicle navigation'', this could soon be a reality.
If this technology comes into action, it may also see fleets of self-navigating vehicles for the military operating in war zones.
Keeping this in mind, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contest was conducted, which aimed at spurring the development of such technologies.
The DARPA Urban Challenge was held at a former air force base in Victorville, Calif. in late 2007, and offered a 3.5 million dollars purse to competitors who could design the fastest and safest vehicles that could traverse a 60-mile urban course in moving traffic in less than six hours.
The contestant vehicles were unmanned and had to complete a simulated military supply mission, manoeuvring through a mock city environment, avoiding obstacles, merging into moving traffic, navigating traffic circles, and negotiating intersections -- all while conforming to California driving rules.
And out of the 89 international teams participating in the contest, only six could make it to the finish line in the allotted time.
The winning vehicle, which finished with the fastest time- an average speed of approximately 13 miles per hour- had Wende Zhang of General Motors as part of its design team.
The GM team incorporated existing technology already offered in some of their vehicles that can assist in parking or detect lane markers and trigger alarms if the drivers are coming too close to the shoulder of the road.
And for the DARPA challenge, they developed a more sophisticated package of sensors that included GPS coupled with a camera and a laser-ranging LIDAR system to guide and correct the vehicle''s route through the city.

Facebook receives $200 mn investment from Russian firm

Social networking site Facebook has received a USD 200 million investment from Digital Sky Technologies
, an internet investment group, in exchange for a 1.96 per cent stake in the company. Digital Sky Technologies (DST), which has significant stake in Eastern European and Russian internet businesses, has picked up 1.96 per cent in Facebook, valuing the enterprise at USD 10 billion, the company said in a statement. In addition, DST has indicated plans for an offer to buy at least USD 100 million of Facebook shares from existing shareholders to facilitate liquidity for current and former employees' vested shares in the company. However, consistent with Facebook's practice with other recent investors, DST would not be represented on the Facebook board or hold special observer rights, the statement added. "This investment demonstrates Facebook's ongoing success at creating a global network for people to share and connect," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. "A number of firms approached us, but DST stood out because of the global perspective they bring-– backed up by the impressive growth and financial achievements of their internet investments," Zuckerberg added. DST's main assets account for over 70 per cent of all page views in Russian-speaking internet and its social networks are market leaders in more than 13 countries

Canadian TV rapped for Obama assassination joke

Canada's public broadcaster was wrong to show a skit that joked about the possible assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama and suggested he could be a thief, an industry panel ruled on Monday.
The New Year's Eve "Bye Bye" comedy program -- shown by the French-language Radio Canada network -- generated more than 200 complaints. In one segment, two hosts discussed Obama's election in November 2008. Obama, who took office in January, is the first black U.S. president.
"We're not racists. It will be good to have a ***** in the White House. It will be practical. Black on white, it will be easier to shoot him," one of the show's hosts remarked.
The Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council said it found "nothing redeeming in the allegedly comedic notion that an American president should be shot, still less that this would be easier to achieve because of the color of the president's skin. It was a disturbing, wounding, abusive racial comment".
The show also featured an interview with an actor pretending to be Obama. The host said, "The blacks, you all look alike," and then warned viewers to hide their purses.
The council said the comments and sketches breached regulations, adding they went "too far in terms of Canadian broadcast standards."
The producers of the show denied the skits had been racist, saying they had meant to mock the characters making the offensive remarks.
Complaints about Radio Canada are usually handled by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). In this case the CRTC asked the council -- which deals with commercial channels and has more experience in handling such complaints -- for advice.
The CRTC, which is due to conduct its own probe into the show, does not have the power to fine Radio-Canada but can issue a public reprimand.
A spokeswoman for the commission said such reprimands could cause problems for networks when it came time for them to seek renewal of their broadcasting license. Radio-Canada is due to apply for a license renewal in 2011.
Polls regularly show that Canadians like Obama far more than they do their own leaders. Tens of thousands turned up to cheer him when he made a brief visit to Ottawa in February. A spokeswoman for the U.S. embassy said she did not know whether the White House had complained about the show

Women to fly fighter jets by 2014: Air Force chief

Women could be flying Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter jets before 2014, breaking through the last male bastion in the world's fourth largest air force. "I am 100 per cent sure that women will fly fighters in the next four to five years," Homi K Major, Chief of Air Staff, told HT. "?it's about getting your fundas right.
The air force is conducting studies on various physiological aspects (of inducting women in the fighter stream). We have no issues on that (assigning them to fighters).
" There are 750-odd women among 10,563 officers serving in the IAF. The air chief's comments illustrate how female officers are quietly but determinedly claiming higher responsibilities in an overwhelmingly male-dominated military culture. Air Chief Marshal Major said while women were "currently not ready" to be fighter pilots, the air force would have found ways to allow that by 2014.
Women started serving the IAF in 1992. They are allowed to fly only transport aircraft and helicopters.
In a 2006 report, the Director General Armed Forces Medical Services had recommended that women be allowed to fly fighter jets. The report said women were "in no way" medically inferior to men.
The IAF may have to tiptoe its way around issues such as marriage, pregnancy and child rearing to give them fighter flying rights. The IAF could consider taking a leaf out of the Turkish Air Force's book to give women a chance to fly combat jets.
"F-16 women pilots in Turkey are utilised for training rookie male fighter pilots," said Major, who retired on May 31, when he turns 62. "They do not carry out advanced maneouvres.
" Women pilots in the US Air Force have flown combat missions over Afghanistan and Iraq, while the Pakistan Air Force got its first batch of women pilots three years ago. The Indian Navy will have exclusive sleeping areas for women in its future warships.
There are 258 women among 7,336 officers in the navy

Susan Boyle gives guests sleepless nights with day night rehearsals

Britain's Got Talent star Susan Boyle has been practicing her singing day and night, leaving other guests at a hotel sleep deprived.
Susan, 48, who turned into an overnight celebrity with her jaw dropping performance of the song 'I Dreamed a Dream' on the talent show, was said to be barely taking any breaks between tuning her vocals at the Wembley Plaza hotel in West London.
"She is obviously desperate to win. She just sings all day and all night. It's been keeping me up - it's such a cacophony," the Sun quoted one sleepless guest as saying.
The Scottish church volunteer came one step closer to winning the title after reaching the finals with her stunning version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats song Memory.
A staggering 13.6million viewers had tuned into ITV1 to watch the songbird perform in the recent semi-finals while more than a million visited YouTube to see her latest performance.
The amateur singer since her audition has won fans all over the globe, including US President Barack Obama and Hollywood couple Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher.
The red-hot favourite to win the show gathered a record 200million hits on YouTube, been interviewed by US chat queen Oprah Winfrey, had name checks on cartoon shows The Simpsons and South Park, been invited to meet Obama and has even had a doll modelled after her

Why Asin had to say 'no' to Priyan and Akki!

If director Priyadarshan had had his way it would have been Asin in his latest venture, DE DANA DAN, along with the likes of Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty and Paresh Rawal. But it was not slated to be so and hence a casting coup of sorts went a begging. So, what exactly went wrong?Well, for that matter, nothing! And please do not jump to conclusions, the next southern 'superstarni' in the making, Asin, is not getting too carried away with the All Time Blockbuster success of her debut Hindi film, GHAJINI, and has not rejected Priyan's offer for any controversial reason. It's just that she simply stuck to her principal of accepting roles that are challenging and of some substance, one which offer her the scope to showcase her acting skills, and so she reluctantly refused Priyan's tempting offer.
Since the movie is basically an all male centric one, the role which Asin was offered was not exciting enough and it required Asin to be just a pretty face and add to the glamour quotient, which was not acceptable to the new sensation and hence the refusal. Asin also made it clear that she has no financial constraints and she makes enough bucks from the ads and endorsements.

Vidya Balan gets possessive about Shahid!

It seems the romance between Priyanka Chopra and Shahid Kapoor is a cause of concern for Vidya Balan. Since, Shahid and Priyanka are neighbours and are frequently spotted in each others home, it's now learnt that Vidya Balan has brought a new pad in Shahid's building and is planning to move in soon. Sources say that the neighbourhood is intrigued by this development after it was reported that Vidya and Shahid were just professional friends. Now, it seems that Vidya is actually possessive about Shahid's attention and can't tolerate Priyanka's proximity to her man of interest.
Well, must say Shahid is getting luckier by the day ever since his break-up with long-standing girlfriend Kareena Kapoor.

Katrina Kaif during IPL 2009 closing ceremony

Iran producing anti-cruise missile cannons

Iran launched on Sunday a production line for manufacturing cannons for warships which can be used against cruise missiles, the Fars news agency reported.
"The final range of the 40-millimetre naval cannon, named Fath (victory), is 12 kilometres and it shoots 300 projectiles per minute," Defence Minister Mohammad Mostafa Najjar said in a statement reported by Fars.

Cell phone viruses poised to reach epidemic proportions

Unlike computer viral epidemics, no major outbreaks of mobile phone viral infection have been reported to date. Ever wondered why?
Well, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, director of the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University, says that it is because a highly fragmented market share has effectively hindered outbreaks thus far.

Australian flood waters create 'inland sea'

Thousands of homeowners remained isolated in Australia's flood-hit northeast on Sunday, where authorities said days of torrential rain had created a vast "inland sea".
Swollen rivers peaked overnight, allowing clean-up operations to begin and evacuated residents to returBut SES spokesman Greg Slater said up to 20,000 people in small communities remained cut off by the floodwaters, which have led to disaster declarations in NSW and neighbouring Queensland.
"We're concentrating our efforts on those communities in terms of re-supply and provision of immediate medical assistance and medical supplies, also just the basic necessities, foodstuff and the like," he told Sky News.Grafton and Kempsey, the State Emergency Service (SES) said.

YouTube infested with hundreds of porn videos

Video-sharing website YouTube has come under attack with hundreds of pornographic videos being uploaded onto its site.
The sexually explicit videos and inappropriate material were uploaded under the names of famous teenage celebrities like Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers.

World’s first battery that charges on air

The world’s first battery fuelled by air, which could provide up to 10 times the energy storage
of designs currently available and could power electric cars, mobile phones and laptops, has been
unveiled.
Scientists say the revolutionary ‘STAIR’ (St Andrews Air) battery is charged in a traditional
way but as power is used or ‘discharged’, an open mesh section of the battery draws in oxygen
from the surrounding air.

Apple warns of electrical shocks from iPod, iPhone

Technology giant Apple has warned of possible small and quick electrical shocks from the
headphones while using iPods and iPhones.
According to the company, people could experience the electrical shock when they are using
headphones to listen to these devices in areas where the air is very dry.

DVD that can hold 2,000 movies

A new type of disc that stores 10,000 times more data than current DVDs has been unveiled by
Australia researchers.
The revolutionary disc could be on the market within a decade, researchers reported in the
journal Nature.
The discs store 1.6 terabytes of data, pipping the capacity of current DVD and Blu-ray discs
which hold up to 50 gigabytes.
A standard DVD recorder uses light of a single wavelength to ''burn'' data onto the surface of
the disc, reports ABC Online.
Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne found that by adding gold
nanorods to the disc they were able to increase its capacity.
The nanorods react to light according to their shape – thus allowing researchers to record
information using light of different wavelengths, or colours, on the same location on the disc.
The researchers also used polarisation, the angle of the light''s electric field, to record data.
"The polarisation can be rotated 360 degrees," says paper co-author Dr James Chon.
"So for example, we were able to record at zero degree polarisation. Then on top of that, we were
able to record another layer of information at 90 degrees polarisation, without them interfering
with each other," he added.
Professor Min Gu, Director of the Centre for Micro-Photonics at Swinburne, who was also involved
in the research, said: "We have created a new recording device that can respond to different
colour and different polarisation. By using these properties we can use more of the disc."
In their paper, the researchers were able to record three layers of information, using three
different wavelengths and two polarisations.
Since publication, the authors have recorded 10 layers, and they believe it is possible to record
100 layers onto a single disc.

New search engine unveil by Microsoft

Microsoft Corp is likely to show a new version of its Internet search engine publicly for the
first time next week, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
The software giant has been testing a new version of the service internally under the name of
Kumo.com and it may become part of the firm's attempt to catch up with Internet search leaders
Google Inc and Yahoo Inc.
Microsoft has hired JWT, a unit of WPP Plc, to develop an advertising campaign for the product,
the paper said, citing people familiar with the matter. The search engine is expected to be
unveiled at the "D: All Things Digital" conference.

Astraunauts drink water recycled from their urine

At the international space station, it was one small sip for man and a giant gulp of recycled
urine for mankind.
Astronauts aboard the space station celebrated a space first yesterday by drinking water that
had been recycled from their urine, sweat and water that condenses from exhaled air.

Save Water:Scientists demand global action to preserve water

Scientists from major countries including India have come out with a declaration demanding a
region-by-region response to increased water scarcity and heightened hazards.

Breaking news: 15 Years Old Girl Generate Thousand of Dollars From A Website?

What do you think about that story? For some of you, that paragraphs I quote from
anguilla-beaches.com may be not so interesting. But when I finish my story, I can sure that the
only think you want to do is to visit the site!
Why? Because that site was built by a 15 years old girl, and successfully generated thousand of
dollars. How awesome!
This inspiring story began in August 2002, when Nori and her father, Ken Evoy, made a trip to the
beautiful Carribean island of Anguilla. It was actually their second trip there.Nori liked the place very much, and all of her adventures there brought her an idea of building a
web site.
I took the whole story she shared, so you won’t miss anything.
Who Would Have Thought That A Vacation Could Pay My Way Through University?
by Nori Evoy
nori evoy - anguilla-beaches.comIn August, 2002, we made our second trip to the beautiful
Caribbean island of Anguilla. Many people had never heard of it. My Dad hadn’t.
And then he read a book.
It is an inspiring story about two people selling everything they owned, “slowing down” and
opening up their dream… a restaurant in Anguilla.
Their love of the island, through successes and mishaps, their description of the island and its
people, caught my dad’s fancy. This book is really about a journey down a “road less traveled.”
It’s really about people choosing to lead their own lives.
I feel so sad for people who are stuck working for people they don’t like, for those who are
forced to go to work, fight traffic, be in an office and then come home at the end of the day.
My dad works hard building SiteSell.com and Site Build It!. Probably too hard. But he loves what
he does — I can see his dream, how Site Build It! can free people from a hum-drum life. You don’t
have to do what the Blanchard’s did and risk every penny and open your own restaurant.
You can do what I did. But never meant to. :-) (After all, who could have imagined that A Trip
to the Beach and Site Build It! would turn me into a successful Web site owner, too?)
Anyway, all that to say… when my Dad asked me to write my “case study,” how could I say “no”?
(How could I say “no” anyway — but that’s a different story!).
Before I start my story, I should add one thing… I get some e-mail saying how lucky I am to have
my Dad tutor me on “Net marketing.” Well, he doesn’t.
He does help me a lot with my writing — he loves to write, and he pushes me to “say it better,
Nori — make it come alive.” And he did help me get started with the software. But I do all the
rest myself.

Aamir Khan starring in Hollywood movie

Aamir Khan is going from strength to strength.
After almost all his movies did well in B-Town, he’s all set to make more headway in the west.
Chances are he might be paired opposite recent Oscar winner Kate Winslet in a film to be directed
by Pan Nalin.
The story is reportedly an adaptation of legendary Pakistani playwright Saadat Hasan Manto’s
short story ‘Toba Tek Singh’ which speaks about the comic situation inside an Indian mental
asylum in 1947, when India and Pakistan were being created.
The buzz is that though nothing’s been confirmed yet, Aamir is already quite excited about the
whole thing.
After all he’s turned on by intelligent stuff.
Pan has already narrated the script to Aamir impressing him in the process and he’s keen on the
movie.
That’s how a perfectionist is supposed to behave, it seems.
But work will start only when the bigger star in the scheme of things (well, that’s how it seems)
gives a nod.
Pan Nalin has kept his option open too.
If Kate opts out then he will rope in ‘The Mummy’ and ‘The Constant Gardener’ actress Rachel
Weisz for playing the role of Dr Sophie.
He’s said “Either Kate or Rachel will be doing my film. I will be meeting both of them after my
Cannes trip to finalise the casting. Either of them will be able to do justice to this marvelous
story.”
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All his recent flops notwithstanding, Salman Khan is all set to make a comeback with a huge bang.
What with three of his big budget releases about to release within six weeks in July and August.
Earlier there had been rumours about a possible clash between two of the Salman starrers – Prabhu
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is being readied for Independence Day on August 14th. We could also witness the first 100 crore
clash ever on Independence Day as another heavyweight Blue is also expected on the same day and
both films have a combine.
Salman Khan’s biggest venture of 2009, Veer however will make it to the cinema halls across the
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All the dates above however are all dependent on the multiplex revenue sharing issue being
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My Name Is Khan to be a 2010 release?

Bad news for Shah Rukh Khan – Kajol – Karan Johar fans if the strong buzz going around in the
trade circles is to be believed. Our trade sources claim that Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions’
and SRK’s Red Chillies Entertainment’s joint production My Name Is Khan might not release in
December 2009 as it had earlier been scheduled. Its release is being postponed now to early 2010.
Sources tell us, “The on going producers v/s multiplex stand off has thrown the scheduled
releases dates of many a biggies off the hook. The nearly two and a half months that have been
wasted due to the strike is likely to create a heavy rush of releases at the box office once the
issue sorts out. The makers of biggies have already begun plans to tread cautiously if such
circumstances arrive. It would mean hara-kiri to release big ticket films together by letting
their films cut into each other’s business. The reworking of release schedules of their films and
pushing them ahead has started taking place. So most of the earlier scheduled big ticket June
releases are now coming either in July or in August. Similarly, those earlier planned for August
will now be pushed ahead to October – November what with the month of Ramzaan starting in August
which generally sees no big release. Karan Johar’s Rensil D’Silva directed Saif-Kareena-Vivek
Oberoi starrer Qurbaan has been planned for a November end release. With the heavy dates
shuffling happening there may be a change in release date for it as well and be pushed ahead by a
week or two. MNIK was scheduled as a mid December release that’s at least two weeks before Aamir
Khan’s 3 Idiots releases. But with all this happening it seems less likely that KJo and SRK would
be able to squeeze in their film in between Qurbaan and 3 Idiots which releases on December 25th.
So perhaps taking a safer route they must be intending to release it in early 2010.”
If this happens then SRK won’t have any major release in 2009 and his only release would be Dulha
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Kolkata Knight Riders team owner Shah Rukh Khan may be hundreds of miles away from his IPL team, who are currently playing in South Africa, but the Bollywood star wants constant feedback on how things are moving in the Knight Riders camp.
To serve this purpose, King Khan has asked co-owner Jay Mehta to keep a close watch on the boys and provide him a first-hand account on the latest developments.
The Kolkata team will play their final match of the IPL’s second season against Rajasthan Royals on Wednesday but will end up at the bottom of the points table, irrespective of the result.
“As Shah Rukh didn’t go back to South Africa, Mehta is acting as his eyes and ears. It’s understood that Shah Rukh will be briefed on all matters once the edition ends,” sources told a newspaper.
According to reports, Mehta has already started working on his assignment and had conversations with the skipper Brendon McCullum as well as some other players.
Mehta is also expected to meet the support staff including John Buchanan and director Joy Bhattacharya, a meeting which is expected to decide the fate of several members of the team.

After Mumbai, Delhi is my favourite place: Katrina Kaif

The oppressive heat in the national capital doesn`t seem to have affected British-born actress Katrina Kaif`s enthusiasm to shoot here. She says she loves Delhi people and would love to make it her home after Mumbai.
"I really hope that someday I come to the capital for the film shoot. I have shot for different movies in all parts of the world but unfortunately not here. So I`m looking forward to that opportunity as I know it would be real fun," Katrina Kaif said at a press conference here.
"I come here very often but they are very short visits. I just love this place. If I have to decide where do I want to live after Mumbai, it would definitely be Delhi. Here I share amazing vibes with people and see so many friendly faces," she added.
Dressed in blue ankle-length jeans, red jersey and black sneakers, the actress looked casual and posed happily for the shutterbugs.
Katrina, who is the brand ambassador of Indian Premier League (IPL) team Royal Challengers (RC), was in the capital to cheer her team. The "Singh Is Kinng" star said that she wants IPL to be back in India.
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"The whole experience is priceless. That is the time when we smile together and cry together," she added.
The 24-year-old also said: "We (actors) keep our fingers crossed on a Friday. Similarly, cricketers too wait till the last ball because the game is so unpredictable."
Meanwhile she is preparing for her performance at the IPL grand finale in Johannesburg May 24.
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End of US dream? No takers for 20K H1B visas

Washington, May 20: Once the most sought after H-1B American work visa is still having nearly 20,000 slots open seven weeks after the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) started receiving applications for the financial year 2010 beginning October this year.
The USCIS yesterday said it has so far received approximately 45,500 H-1B petitions counting toward the Congressionally-mandated 65,000 cap. As such, the USCIS would continue to accept petitions subject to till the cap is reached.
This is in contrast of the previous few years when the USCIS had to resort to computerised draw of lots as it received petitions outnumbering several times more than the Congressional mandated cap of 65,000 within the first few days after it started receiving H-1B applications.
USCIS said it has received approximately 20,000 petitions for the advanced degrees category. However, it would continue to accept advanced degree petitions since experience has shown that not all petitions received are approvable, the USCIS said in a statement.
Congress mandated that the first 20,000 of these types of petitions are exempt from any fiscal year cap on available H-1B visas.
For the fiscal 2010, the USCIS started receiving H-1B petitions from April 1. In the first five working days, it received 42,000 H-1B petitions. In the month and half since then, USCIS has received juts 3,500 more H-1B petitions, indicating the slump in demand for H-1B work visas.
This is mainly attributed to the current economic crisis, high unemployment rate in the US and also partly to the anti-H-1B sentiment prevailing in the United States at present.
Under the stimulus package, US companies which receive federal money are prevented from hiring foreign workers under H-1B visas.
Further the US Department of Homeland Security has launched investigations into alleged fraud cases related to H-1B visas and has tightened the application approval process.
At least two legislations are also pending in the US Congress, which if passed would make H-1B visas tougher for foreign technology professionals.

Bhutia decides to leave Mohun Bagan

Manchester City owners have quashed speculation that Mark Hughes will be replaced as manager by saying he will stay on at the Premier League club for next season at least.
City has failed to make an impact in English football despite the vast wealth of its new owners from Abu Dhabi, leading to suggestions that the administration might look for another big name to help the club catch up with the traditional Premier League powerhouses.
Once more, Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal will fill the top four places in the league while City, after a poor start to the season, can finish no higher than ninth.
"I have been surprised at all the speculation because I have always been consistent with everyone on the subject of the manager," Man City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak said on Monday.
"Every time I have spoken I have said we have the highest confidence in Mark and I would like to reiterate that now. Mark will be our manager next season. Nothing has changed."
Al Mubarak said his Abu Dhabi United Group had added stability to the club.
"There has been incredible and unnecessary pressure put on Mark from outside the club. From my perspective, I think we have come a long way and I am looking for a big finish to the season," he said. "We have accomplished things since January and now we can start focusing on next season.
"This is a club that has had 10 managers in 15 years and changes of ownership. It is hard to believe we have ever had a real preseason. This time we will have that and will do so with a year's experiences behind us and that will make us stronger."
Al Mubarak said next season "is going to be better than this one."

Bhutia decides to leave Mohun Bagan

Bhaichung Bhutia on Monday decided to part ways with Mohun Bagan in retaliation to the club's decision to serve him a show cause letter recently for missing the club's practice and an exhibition match in Jalpaiguri.
"I don't want to play for Mohun Bagan anymore," said the India skipper.
Bhutia, who reached here last night after taking part in a reality show, said the show cause letter was a publicity gimmick.
"It (the show cause) was a publicity gimmick. It could have been handled better. Anjan Mitra just needed to call me up," said Bhutia, who led Mohun Bagan this season.
The star striker said he has been asked to reconsider but it's unlikely he would do so.
"It's good for both of us to part ways. They are telling me to rethink but at the moment I have only one stand. I don't have any motivation left in me to play for Mohun Bagan," said Bhutia.

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Manchester City owners have quashed speculation that Mark Hughes will be replaced as manager by saying he will stay on at the Premier League club for next season at least.
City has failed to make an impact in English football despite the vast wealth of its new owners from Abu Dhabi, leading to suggestions that the administration might look for another big name to help the club catch up with the traditional Premier League powerhouses.
Once more, Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal will fill the top four places in the league while City, after a poor start to the season, can finish no higher than ninth.
"I have been surprised at all the speculation because I have always been consistent with everyone on the subject of the manager," Man City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak said on Monday.
"Every time I have spoken I have said we have the highest confidence in Mark and I would like to reiterate that now. Mark will be our manager next season. Nothing has changed."
Al Mubarak said his Abu Dhabi United Group had added stability to the club.
"There has been incredible and unnecessary pressure put on Mark from outside the club. From my perspective, I think we have come a long way and I am looking for a big finish to the season," he said. "We have accomplished things since January and now we can start focusing on next season.
"This is a club that has had 10 managers in 15 years and changes of ownership. It is hard to believe we have ever had a real preseason. This time we will have that and will do so with a year's experiences behind us and that will make us stronger."
Al Mubarak said next season "is going to be better than this one."

Market mania to continue, Sensex may touch 15K

After the Dalal Street made history on Monday with the sharpest one-day rise ever, the surge expected to continue.
The Sensex could touch 15,000 in Tuesday session and the markets may hit the first circuit of 10 per cent as investor sentiment remains buoyant.
Global cues are also encouraging with three per cent gains each for the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500.
Trading had to be halted on Monday after the markets surged 17 per cent in just over an hour. It was seen as the markets' verdict to the decisive win by the UPA.

N-capable Agni-II successfully test-fired

Indiaon Tuesday successfully tested the nuclear capable Agni-II missile from a defence base in Orissa, official sources said.
The surface-to-surface missile with a range of over 2,000 km was test-fired from the Wheeler's Island near Dhamara in the district of Bhadrak, some 150 km from here at 10.06am.
"It was a user trial," the sources said, adding that the aim of the test was to give the Army confidence to fire the missile on its own.
The Agni II missile, which is a part of India's Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme, is 20 metres long.
Weighing 16 tonnes, the missile can carry a payload of around 1,000 kg and its range can also be increased to 3,000 km by reducing the pay load.
"It can be fired from both rail and road mobile launchers. It takes only 15 minutes for the missile to be readied for firing," the sources said, adding that the Agni II-version of the Agni series of missiles was first test-fired in 1999 from the same location.

LTTE Chief Prabhakaran's body found

Sri Lankan troops recovered the body of slain rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran on Tuesday, a day after he was killed in the Tamil Tigers' last stand against government forces in the north, the military said.
Sri Lankan TV stations aired video of what appeared to be his corpse, with the top of its head blown off. There was no independent confirmation available.
Private TV stations Derana and Swarnavahini showed soldiers surrounding what they said was Prabhakaran's body, with his trademark moustache and distinctive Tiger stripe camouflage fatigues.
The military said the body was found in a lagoon. A blue cloth covered the top of the head, which appeared shorn off.
The video showed a copy of a military ID tag written in Tamil, bearing the number "0:01", and what appeared to be a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) identity card with his photograph.
The Army's commander, General Sarath Fonseka, moments earlier had gone on state TV and radio to announce that the body had been found on Tuesday and positively identified.
"The good news from the war front is that the body of the leader of the terrorist organisation which destroyed the country for the last 30 years, Prabhakaran, has been found this morning by the army. We have identified the body," he said.
Fonseka's announcement came after the LTTE made a statement on a pro-rebel web site saying Prabhakaran, 54, was still alive. "I wish to inform the global Tamil community distressed witnessing the final events of the war that our beloved leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is alive and safe," the website quoted LTTE diplomatic head Selvarajah Pathmanathan as saying.

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