Tens of thousands of anti- government protesters on Friday staged rallies across Yemen to press President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign, in a relative-calm way after week-long deadly clashes between Saleh's troops and the defected army.
The anti-government protesters dubbed the day as "Friday of victory for Yemen and Syria", in reference to a joint cooperation between protesters in the two countries.
"Freedom for Yemen ... People want to build new Yemen," the protesters chanted after they finished their midday Friday prayers, according to eyewitnesses. The protesters also called the international community to adopt a strict stance against what they said "the violence against the protesters."
Saleh's supporters also gathered in a massive rally by thousands of demonstrators in Sabeen Street nearby Saleh's presidential palace in Sanaa, calling the day "Friday of dialogue. "
"People want Ali Abdullah Saleh," Saleh's supporters shouted as rising banners reading "Yes for dialogue for the safety of Yemen."

Barack Obama has hailed the killing of fiery US-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi in a CIA airstrike in Yemen, but the militant's death also raises awkward questions for the US.

The leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), al-Awlaki was regarded as one of the most dangerous threats to the West.

Mr Obama says the successful strike is a tribute to the US intelligence community and to the cooperation of Yemen and its security forces

But it also raises some tough questions for the US president, who is said to have personally ordered the killing.

Hugh Hefner's Ex-Fiancee to Auction Off Engagement Ring-Crystal Harris is getting rid of the engagement ring she got from ex-fiance Hugh Hefner. TMZ reported the former Playboy Playmate, who called off her wedding to the 85-year-old just days before the big day in June, has put her 3.39 carat diamond ring up for auction which will take place in October at Christie's in New York. A description put on the auction house's site read, "A diamond ring. Set with a circular-cut diamond, weighing approximately 3.39 carats, to the circular-cut diamond hoop, mounted in platinum." In its listing, it was revealed that the sparkler is expected to sell somewhere in between $20,000 and $30,000.

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore played down split reports on Friday (30Sep11) by celebrating the Jewish New Year together at the Kabbalah Center in Los Angeles.

The couple has been dogged by infidelity rumours and stories suggesting its union is under threat ever since Kutcher and Moore spent their sixth wedding anniversary apart, on different U.S. coasts, last weekend (24Sep11).

James Marsden's Wife Files for Divorce After 11 Years of Marriage-James Marsden and his wife, Lisa Linde, are set to part ways after 11 years of marriage. TMZ recently broke the news that Lisa filed for divorce from the actor, who is known for his portrayal of Cyclops in three "X-Men" movies, around a week ago on September 23 In the court documents, the daughter of country music songwriter Dennis Linde cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for her separation from the 38-year-old actor. She's seeking spousal support and joint legal and physical custody of their two young children, 10-year-old Jack and 6-year-old Mary.

Three dead in boating accident off Batemans Bay in NSW-Three people have been killed in a boating accident off New South Wales' south coast.
A YOUNG girl and two elderly people have died and a 47-year-old man is missing after a catamaran capsized in waters off the NSW south coast.
Shortly before 2pm (AEST) today, emergency services responded to reports a vessel with five people onboard had capsized off Batemans Bay.
They found one person alive, while three bodies were pulled from the water.
Grave fears are held for the missing man, who was not wearing a life jacket at the time of the capsize.
"The water is very, very cold so survival becomes very limited," a spokesman for Westpac Rescue Helicopter said today.

The most valuable thing a man can have - is the heart and soul. And if the healing of the soul can help a lot: from religion to books, for the correct operation of the heart surgeons meet. In this feature we look to you in AlmatySemaHospital and walk with the patient all the difficult stage of heart surgery.

Zhamaldin Bolushov in search of the best surgeons come from Kyrgyzstan: "At home, I was looking for good doctors, but my cardiologist advised to be treated in this clinic." Excerpt from the case Zhamaldina: "Coronary heart disease. Exertional angina. Trehsosudistoe coronary artery disease. Comorbid diagnoses: diabetes mellitus type II, severe course. Decompensation. Xronicheskaya obstructive pulmonary disease"

"It's just not my face, but I'm grateful for it," says an American who has made a full face transplant after she fired at her husband, who, as a woman says she still loves ..
To date, Connie Culp happy already that it can makeup lipstick - in fact to face transplants, which was made in 2008, any makeup for her was impossible. Her upper lip, nose, sky, eyes and cheeks were destroyed as a result of the fact that her husband Tom in a fit of rage suddenly shot at point-blank into her face.

Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules) - beetle from the subfamily of the family Dynastinae scarab. It is considered one of the biggest bugs on Earth. Lives in Central and South America, the Caribbean. Body length of males to 178 mm, females to 80 mm. According to unconfirmed reports, the male captured makismalnaya length was 220 mm.

The larva of this giant can weigh up to 120 grams.

In this post we'll talk about cocktails. Not on those of 30-40 rubles per half liter, rolled up in aluminum and not about the children who through milk. And about the ones that on there, adult beverages, a variety of ingredients which are alkogolesoderzhaschie fluid.

As usual in the science of history, there are many versions of the same. Narimer when and where the cocktail was invented. One of them is connected with the history of cock-fighting, which was distributed in 19th century England. To provoke fighting cocks before the competition, the British gave them the so-called "cock-beer" - a mix of hard-alcoholic drinks and bitters. Maybe that's the English word «cock - ale», means "rooster beer," got its name this cocktail.

Mask - is a sacred object that surrounds us from the earliest times. From time immemorial ancient people used the mask as an attribute for sacred ceremonies and rituals. In more recent times, the mask used by all, from kings and nobles of the supreme during the masquerade balls-up of simple villagers, get up in the mask during fairs and festivals. Even now, centuries later, the mask surround our lives, are used as decoration for the interior and built by masters as a work of art. Below is presented a mask - a new look at the thousand-year tradition through the prism of contemporary art.

Remember the famous English tea sets for six or twelve people? So, now they look completely different. Now, in order to arrange a very ordinary.  you have to thoroughly work, because now the fashion and creativity is not least true to the cups. Cup - a thing at the same time simple and complicated. After all, if it were simply a device for drinking, then it would have been easier, but since it is also to some extent an object for aesthetic admiration, have to live with the fact that in your cup, for example, horns Exclusive cups.

Nobody is perfect, but Americans are obsessed with the idea of ​​ideal, which makes them over and over again to go under the surgeon's scalpel. We decided to find out exactly what they will reduce, increase, filtered, and increasing lift. We are blessed with the same question puzzled American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Here is a list compiled of the ten most popular plastic surgery procedures.

 They say that every person on earth has a twin, like him as two peas. Typically, this double live beyond the reach somewhere in another country, or even in other parts of the world. But sometimes it happens that the double lives quite close to us, for example, on the same street. Or even share the same profession with us. In this regard, of course, the most lucky stars in show business. It turns out, among them a lot of doubles, which also means that, in Hollywood, gaining popularity only to people with similar facial features.

Scott Campbell - one of the best tattoo artists of the world-One of the best tattoo artists of the world tattooed on the first, the pain and the problem of selection.

Scott Campbell - owner of the tattoo shop Saved Tattoo in Brooklyn. He works with clients the level of the designer Marc Jacobs (with whom he has created a collection for Louis Vuitton) and is constantly in the road - it requires personal attendance orders on both sides of the ocean.
First tattoo on myself I've done in 16 years in a cheap biker tattoo salon in Houston. I had 25 dollars and the guy behind the counter offered me a choice of a skull or a butterfly. I chose the skull. Now for me as tattoos, and find that it is impossible, because they all merge into one big one. I look like a carpet.

Already cursed by floods and suicide bombings, Pakistan now faces a new menace from an unprecedented outbreak of the deadly tropical disease dengue fever.

In less than a month, 126 people have died and more than 12,000 have been diagnosed with the virus, which has spread rapidly among both rich and poor in Pakistan's cultural capital Lahore.

Dengue affects between 50 and 100 million people in the tropics and subtropics each year, resulting in fever, muscle and joint ache.

Three people, including two women police, were killed Thursday and a dozen wounded in the explosion of a device in western Afghan province of Herat, an official source was quoted as saying AIP.

The explosion happened in the Injil district at around 02.40 local time and hit a police jeep and another vehicle, said that media regional Afghan police agent.

According to this source, the dead were two police officers, both women, and an employee of the district administrative offices, while the wounded included women from four other police forces.

A Taliban spokesman Mohammad Yusuf Ahmadi, claimed responsibility for the events on behalf of their militias, and said the bomb was in a rickshaw and killed nine policemen.

Violence in the context of the war affecting Afghanistan for 10 years has increased almost 40 percent in 2011 over the same period in 2010, according to a UN report released Wednesday.

Despite the presence of some 140,000 soldiers of the NATO international force, of which more than two-thirds are American, the Taliban insurgency has intensified considerably in recent years.

At the same time, have extended their guerrilla action most of the country, multiplying even suicide attacks in the heart of the capital Kabul. In its quarterly report to the Security Council, the Secretariat General of the United Nations noted "an average of 2,108 violent incidents per month" in the first eight months of 2011, "ie, an increase of 39 percent over the eight first months of 2010. "

Debris from a defunct six-ton NASA science satellite that crashed to Earth last Saturday fell harmlessly in a remote area of the South Pacific Ocean, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Experts estimated that as much as 495 kilograms of debris survived the bus-sized satellite's fiery plunge through the atmosphere, which started at midnight last Saturday.
The Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California determined that the United States space agency's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite entered the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean at 14.1 degrees south latitude and 170.2 west longitude, NASA said in a statement.

Iran, at odds with the United States and other governments over its nuclear program, raised eyebrows with the prospect set out on Tuesday by the Islamic Republic's navy chief.
"Like the arrogant powers that are present near our marine borders, we will also have a powerful presence close to American marine borders," Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said, according to the official IRNA news agency.

Japan faces the prospect of removing and disposing 29 million cubic meters of soil contaminated by the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years from an area nearly the size of Tokyo, the environment ministry said in the first official estimate of the scope and size of the cleanup.

Six months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami triggered reactor meltdowns, explosions and radiation leaks at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Japan's northeast coast, the size of the task of cleaning up is only now becoming clear.

Tens of thousands of Yemenis protested in Sana'a on Wednesday at President Ali Abdullah Saleh's return from Saudi Arabia, while opposition tribesmen said they had downed a warplane outside the capital and captured its pilot.
Waving flags and making peace signs, protesters fearing renewed stalemate after months of demonstrations seeking Saleh's removal marched out of "Change Square" shouting "Death, death."
"The point is, if we can't live a decent and dignified life, we'd rather die," said Khaled al-Mandi.
Saleh's return has infuriated many Yemenis who thought they had seen the last of him when an attempt on his life in June forced him to fly to neighboring Saudi Arabia for medical treatment, but he defied the odds on Friday by landing in Sana'a "carrying the dove of peace and the olive branch."
"We don't accept any political deals. After all the bloodshed, that option is gone," said Hazim, a 21-year-old protester.

U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington is in final review on decision to designate the Haqqani network as a terrorist organization.
"We're in the final, formal review that has to be undertaken to make a government-wide decision to designate the network as a foreign terrorist organization," Clinton told reporters at a joint press conference with visiting Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr.
She said the U.S. has already slapped sanctions on the key leaders of Haqqani network which was blamed for the recent attacks on U.S. embassy in Afghanistan.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday sought pressure from Egypt and the key international mediators on Israel and the Palestinians to restart negotiations toward the resolution of their outstanding issues.
"Egypt, the United States, the Quartet, everyone must stand prepared to put pressure on both sides to try to move toward a settlement of the outstanding issues," Clinton said at a news conference with visiting Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr at the State Department.
The Quartet, comprising the U.S., the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, proposed last Friday that the parties resume talks within one month, present comprehensive proposals within three months on territory and security, make substantial progress within six months, and complete negotiations by the end of 2012.
The proposal came right after the Palestinians, frustrated that almost 20 years of efforts have failed to achieve peace with Israel and an independent Palestinian state, turned to the UN Security Council for full UN membership.

White House spokesman Jay Carney on Wednesday reacted cautiously to the blunt criticism made by the U.S. top military officer against Pakistan, declining to endorse his remarks describing a militant group as a virtual arm of the Pakistani intelligence service.

"Well, it's not language that I would use," Carney told reporters when he was asked if the administration believed that the Haqqani network which was blamed for the recent attacks on the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan was "a veritable arm" of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency.

Although the whereabouts of fallen leader Muammar Gaddafi remains a mystery, a spokesman of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) said Wednesday that he know where two of Gaddafi's sons are.

Ahmed Bani, NTC's military spokesman, told a press conference here that Gaddafi's second son Seif al-Islam is holed up in Bani Walid, southeast of the capital, while his brother Muatassim is in Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte.

Libya's new rulers believe Moammar Gadhafi may be hiding in the southern desert, possibly in a vast area near the Algerian border, under the protection of ethnic Tuareg fighters, an official said yesterday.
Abdel-Rahman Busin, a National Transitional Council spokesman, also said revolutionary forces knew Gadhafi's son, Seif al-Islam, was in the regime stronghold of Bani Walid two weeks ago because they held talks about his possible surrender. But he said the negotiations had broken down and it was not known whether he was still in the town.

Native American Whips Hair Back and Forth

Wizards and sorcerers from all over Africa come here for the biggest market in the world of magic supplies for the rituals of voodoo.this post is not the most pleasant pictures!

The Salt Mine near the town of Turda in Romania became a backdrop for filming the new film by Christopher Nolan on Batman. In the "Return of The Dark Knight" is placed there Betpeschera.

Let's see what marks have decided to decorate a Hollywood stars.

Hulk Hogan

Johnny Depp

In 1993 this park was first opened to encourage relations between Japan and Russia. It was subsequently closed and opened again after renovations in 2002. It was then open for only six months before lack of visitors forced it to close yet again.

Now after over 8 years of being abandoned the park is an amazing sight. The park includes a large cathedral, hotel (which has sustained a great deal of fire damage), multiple theaters, restaurants, and even a golf course.

Child's Own Studio is committed to making children's drawings three-dimensional.

The decoration of the most luxurious train in India - "Maharaja Express." The luxury hotel on rails.
In Express, there are several types of compartments: the luxury, small and large presidential presidential. Two of the most expensive presidential Class coupe equipped with bathrooms and occupy a separate compartment.In all the carriages of the train floors are made of wood and covered with carpet. 2 restaurants offer guests an extensive express menus, dishes composed of Indian and European cuisine.

Libya reveal how Muammar Gaddafi's son Hannibal and his lingerie model wife lived a high-flying party lifestyle during his father's brutal rule.
In the dozens of photographs, found on a laptop belonging to Gaddafi's son and made available by former Libyan rebels to AFP, Hannibal, 36, and his Lebanese wife Aline Skaff are shown partying in European capitals, on a private jet and on a yacht off the Egyptian coast.The couple is famed for having provoked diplomatic tensions with Switzerland when they were arrested in 2008 in a luxury hotel in Geneva for allegedly assaulting two former servants.

A Saudi woman has been sentenced to 10 lashes for defying a ban on women driving in the conservative kingdom, an activist says, while another woman has been arrested in the capital.
Sheima Jastaniah was sentenced on Monday by a court in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, where she was caught driving in July, the activist said on Tuesday, requesting anonymity.
She said Jastaniah "had refused to talk to media about her trial ... and we were shocked yesterday (Monday) that she was sentenced to 10 lashes".

 Jastaniah will appeal the verdict, she added.

The sentence came a day after King Abdullah announced allowing women to vote and run in municipal polls, and to join the all-appointed Shura (consultative) Council, a first in a country that imposes many restrictions on women.

A 1970s militant who escaped from a murder sentence in New Jersey and carried out one of the most brazen hijackings in US history has been captured in Portugal after more than 40 years as a fugitive, authorities say.After decades of stagnancy, there was a sudden break in the case when police matched his fingerprint to a resident ID card.

A giant panda breeding centre in China has shown pictures of its new crop of cute babies.
The giant panda breeding centre in Chengdu, in south-west China's Sichuan province, started with just six pandas in 1987 and now has more than 100.
The centre looks after red pandas and other endangered Chinese animals as well.Meanwhile, China has launched its once-a-decade panda census, trying to determine how many of the endangered animals live in the wild, amid efforts to boost numbers.

The census is also expected to ascertain pandas' living conditions, ages and any changes in their habitat.The census is the fourth since they were launched in the 1970s.The count a decade ago found 1596 pandas were left in the wild in China, with 1206 of them living in Sichuan.

US President Barack Obama is crossing swords with potential Republican rivals and demanding demoralised Democrats wake up as he plots what appears a narrow but possible path to re-election. Hemmed in by an obstinate Congress, Republicans who want to make him a one-termer.

Obama is waging a kind of private primary campaign to shore up his standing with Democratic Party powerblocks.

The strategy appears to be a recognition that the president, sullied by economic malaise and Washington gridlock, cannot run again as the transformative, charismatic figure who swept to power in 2008.

Russia has abandoned new purchases of its popular AK-74 automatic rifle, dismantling another symbol of Soviet military might as the army pushes through painful reforms.Russia plans on spending 20 trillion roubles ($US617 billion) by 2020 in order to modernise its armed forces, refurbishing its armaments with new guns and rockets, submarines and aircraft.

Based on the more prevalent AK-47, the AK-74 was used by servicemen in the Soviet Union's decade-long war in Afghanistan, which killed 15,000 Soviet troops fighting mujahideen insurgents before Moscow's dispirited exit in 1989.

The AK-74, designed in the early 1970s by Mikhail Kalashnikov, is still in use in Russia and many other former Soviet countries.

Broken beams and mounds of clay lay in heaps where a four-story residential building collapsed in the Indian capital, killing at least seven people and highlighting the dangers of housing for the poor.Residents said they feared some people may still be trapped in the rubble from the decades-old building that fell last night in Old Delhi around the time people would have been home for dinner or getting ready for bed.

Rescuers using diggers to remove the debris on Wednesday freed a young boy who was trapped when the building fell in the congested Chandni Mahal area of Old Delhi as he was passing by.

The area is known for overcrowded buildings and loose wires crisscrossing narrow streets. Locals believed the building, erected about eight decades ago from old construction materials, had been undergoing construction work that might have weakened the foundation.

Lots of Coffee Might Lower Depression Risk
Women who had four or more cups a day were 20% less likely to suffer mood disorder

Coffee lovers, take heart: Women who drink four or more cups of caffeinated coffee daily seem to have a lower risk of depression than those who don't drink java or stop at one cup a day, a new study suggests.
Although it's way too early to start recommending regular coffee consumption as a way to prevent depression, the findings may comfort those who feel guilty about their habit.
"This may lessen concerns that caffeine consumption will have a negative impact," said Dr. Christopher Cargile, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine. "Caffeine at high doses has long been associated with worsening of anxiety and other psychiatric illness, and at times this has lead to lingering concerns that it might be best to limit its use."
Cargile was not involved with the study, which appears in the Sept. 26 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The lion's share of caffeine in the world -- 80 percent -- is consumed in the form of coffee and caffeine is already the most widely used central nervous system stimulant in the world.
Researchers have probed caffeine's effect on heart health, markers of inflammation and cancer (generally the effects are benign or even positive), but there's been relatively little research into its effects on mood.

United Nations peacekeeping and ongoing conflicts and tensions in the Middle East were on the agenda during talks Monday between Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

The two officials, meeting on the margins of the General Assembly's annual general debate, discussed the situation in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the UN has substantial peacekeeping missions in operation.

The US Senate on Monday will try to resolve a budget deadlock that raises the specter of a government shutdown and threatens aid for thousands of Americans hit by a spate of natural disasters.

With money about to run out for victims of hurricanes, wildfires and other recent disasters, Democrats and Republicans remained deadlocked over a bill that would provide emergency relief and keep government agencies running beyond Friday.

After a summer of political standoffs, public confidence in Washington dropped to a new low, with only 43 percent saying they trusted the federal government to handle domestic problems, according to a Gallup poll.

Humanitarian assistance led by the United Nations still could not get access to the Libyan city of Bani Walid and Sirte, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Libya Panos Moumtzis said here Monday.
Forces loyal to the National Transitional Council (NTC) has continued their assaults on the two besieged pro-Gaddafi strongholds.
"We are extremely concerned about civilian people being caught up in the middle of the conflict regardless of which side its coming," Moumtzis told reporters.
The United Nations is currently mobilizing humanitarian assistance, including food and medical supplies to the outskirts of the two cities and assisting civilians who fled out.
It is estimated that around 24,000 people have left Bani Walid and another 1,700 have fled Sirte since fighting intensified in mid-August.

Self-taught artist Gavin Worth (Gavin Worth) creates a two-dimensional sculptures of wire. Gavin has to deal only with the outline of objects, his sculptures of metal wire have no small parts, and the viewer's attention focuses on the essentials.

The UN undersecretary general for political affairs Lynn Pascoe, said yesterday the concern of the international body because sophisticated arsenal of the former leaders Muammar Gaddafi, falling into the hands of terrorists.

Meanwhile, in Gaddafi's home town, Sirte, hundreds of residents left the place on Monday to escape the increasing scarcity of food and medicine and for fear that their homes are destroyed during fighting between rebels and loyalists.

MIAMI - Shakira will be recognized as Person of the Year 2011 of the Latin Recording Academy, the organization announced Monday.

Shakira, who received three Latin Grammy nominations this year including Album of the Year, was chosen for her outstanding artistic achievements, and philanthropic, the academy said in a statement. The Colombian singer will receive the award at a gala dinner and concert that will feature multiple artists on 9 November in Las Vegas.

Obama: "The European crisis is scaring the world".The U.S. president criticizes leaders of the eurozone will not be reacting quickly to the crisis

The U.S. president, Barack Obama, has said that the debt crisis in Europe "is scaring the world." During a meeting with users of the LinkedIn social network in California, the president chided the leaders of the eurozone will not be reacting quickly enough to the crisis facing.According to Obama, the U.S. economy has been affected and have suffered a setback this year due to various world events, such as the Arab Spring, which has led to increased energy prices, and the contagion effect of poor financial health European nations.

Five arrested in the Basque Country and Navarra accused of financing Al Qaeda-The Civil Guard has arrested in the last few hours to five people in Guipúzcoa and Navarra form a cell accused of logistics related to the terrorist network Al Qaeda. Specifically, they are accused of contributing to the financing of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).

Two of the arrests occurred in the towns of Irun and Legorreta Gipuzkoa, two in Pamplona and Navarre in the town last Berriozar.

Esperanza Aguirre thinks that the indignant protestors could be behind a coup-She made the comments at the presentation of a new book by Pedro J. Ramírez, the editor of El Mundo

The Partido Popular President of the Madrid region, Esperanza Aguirre, has said that she considers the 15-M indignant protestors could be ‘a possible state coup attempt’.

Or as an adult…don't judge me. In honor of Banned Books Week here's a few novels you can pull out of the attic in order to stick it to the man.

Reasoning: Anti-religious/Christian propaganda, main characters drink and imbibe drugs (poppy).
Position on American Library Association List Of Banned Books 2000-2009: #8
Specific Example: Austin, Texas

Bridgette Jordan - The world's shortest living woman 

During an after party following the end of the 2011 Miss Universe pageant in Sao Paolo Brazil, an intrepid journalist snapped these camera phone images of some of the contestants. He asked them to make funny faces, with some proving to be more creative than others.

700 feline souls live in the "House Cat" - cat shelter in California, USA.
Many are puzzled and surprised, because the shelter Lina Lattanzi - founder of the "House of Cats" - organized in their own home.
The content of the four-footed pets cost her no less than in 5700 $ per day (40 000 $ per week).
A woman helping volunteers and people who provide material support - all sorts of donations.

According to Lattanzi, majority of cats coming from New York. Often kittens tossed her on the threshold and the locals themselves.

Perched on a pink children's chair, Bridgette Jordan's legs are left to dangle in mid-air as she stretches out her arms to go online. Looking intently at her laptop screen, it takes her some considerable effort to manoeuvre the mouse across the matching pink table.
But it's just the way of life for the 22-year-old dwarf - who is also an all-singing, all-dancing cheerleader with her friends at Kaskaskia College.
And she now has even more to shout about - after she was crowned the world's shortest woman, as chronicled in the new Guinness World Records' Book that appears to overshadow her as it sits by her side.

Ms Jordan, from Sandoval, Illinois, stands at 2ft 3in - and also holds the record for being part of the shortest living siblings, alongside her 20-year-old brother Brad.
Combined, the pair only reach 5ft 5in.

A rich former Google executive pleaded with Barack Obama to raise his taxes, boosting the US leader's push to get well off Americans to bankroll his $US447 billion ($455.24 billion) jobs plan.
Obama stormed through the American west on a three-day tour devoted to hammering Republicans and piling up cash for his 2012 reelection bid, which is overshadowed by 9.1 per cent unemployment and a wobbling economy.
Former Google brand manager Doug Edwards became an instant media sensation when he joined billionaire investor Warren Buffett in calling for those who had done well in America to do more to help the struggling masses.

 "I don't have a job, (I) worked for a small startup down the street here that did quite well," Edwards told Obama, at a Silicon Valley town-hall event on the jobs package sponsored by the LinkedIn social network.

Amanda Knox a 'drug-taking, sex-crazed she-devil' who blamed murder on innocent man-AMANDA Knox was described yesterday as a drug-taking, sex-crazed "she-devil" who tried to blame the murder of the British student Meredith Kercher on an innocent man.

A lawyer for the falsely accused man denounced the American exchange student in the harshest terms at the conclusion of her appeal against her conviction for the murder in 2007 of Ms Kercher, who was her housemate in the medieval Italian hill town of Perugia.

A Lawyer representing Sarah Palin has sent a letter to the publisher of a book about the former Alaska governor, written by author Joe McGinniss, threatening legal action.
The letter, directed to Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, states Palin may sue the company and McGinniss "for knowingly publishing false statements" in the book, "The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin,"
The letter cites an email from McGinniss in which he wrote that he "ran out of time" to provide sufficient sources for the book.
He wrote that attorneys from Crown Publishing told him "nothing I can cite other than my own reporting rises above the level of tawdry gossip. The proof is always just around the corner, but that is a corner nobody has been able to turn."

Fishermen and scientists questioning how many fish can be sustainably taken from a reef believe they've quantified the tipping point.
Nick Graham, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, says ecosystems may take decades to recover from overfishing to feed the world's growing population.
In a report released today, researchers have demonstrated how overfishing can generate a predictable sequence of events that lead to the collapse of reef ecosystems.

 It also offers targets in order to keep fisheries sustainable.

Civilians pouring out of the besieged city of Sirte accused NATO of committing genocide yesterday as revolutionary forces reinforced their numbers and prepared for a new attack on Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's home town.
Long lines of civilian vehicles were seen leaving after a night punctuated by NATO air attacks. Forces fighting for the National Transitional Council (NTC) added their own artillery and mortar rounds at regular intervals.
Civilians, many looking scared or sullen, said that conditions inside Sirte were "disastrous". They made claims which, if verified, offer a conundrum for Nato, which operates with a UN mandate on the need to protect civilian life.

The Dreamliner enters service-B787 Boeing delivers the first Japanese airline ANA the following three years of delay and turmoil .- It is expected to mark the course of the industry as did the legendary Jumbo.The dream became reality in the cathedral of the aircraft, with delivery to All Nippon Airlines of the keys of the first B787 Dreamliner. The commissioning of the new twin-aisle aircraft from Boeing, made of composite materials, comes with more than three years late and turbulence. But it is now the challenge begins for the giant production machine Everett.
"They worked hard to get here," said Scott Fancher satisfied, B787 program manager, while ensuring that "the public will feel this plane." "It's more efficient aircraft. Travelers will want to fly on the Dreamliner, because the experience is better than in other aircraft," said Suzanne Fletcher, head of tourism in the State of Washigton.

Brussels looks to expand the fund to help countries in trouble
Rehn recognize that they are "thinking" about the need to strengthen the instruments to the crisis. -The BBC unveiled a project to increase its funding to two billion euros.Europe is taking receipt of the glove launched last week from Washington by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the U.S. Government. The Monetary Affairs Commissioner, Olli Rehn, has admitted today that it is considering whether to strengthen the European fund to rescue the euro, as he called for the institution headed Christine Lagarde and Secretary U.S. Treasury Timothy Geithner.In a statement published by the online edition of the newspaper Die Welt, Rehn said that being considered "the possibility of giving the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) additional powers to allow you more strength." Olli Rehn, who did not go into details but the BBC talks to increase its funding to two billion euros, stressed that the measure would complement the expansion of rescue umbrella decided last July.

The declaration by ETA prisoners that they want to see an end to violence over the weekend still makes headlines today, and there’s plenty of coverage of what could have been Barcelona’s last ever bullfight yesterday.

The final bullfight has been held at Barcelona's last active bullring, as a ban on the centuries-old tradition takes effect in Spain's north-eastern Catalonia region.

Bullfighting has been banned after a petition signed by 180,000 people called on the regional parliament to stop it.

Lady Gaga - "Hair" [Jamey Rodemeyer Tribute] Live at iHeartRadio Music Festival 2011

 Denise Richards and former husband Charlie Sheen became embroiled in a bitter war of words in the wake of their split in 2006 over custody of daughters Sam and Lola.

Iranian authorities have summoned an unspecified number of people for questioning over their alleged links to BBC's Farsi-language service, the country's intelligence chief says.
The summons followed the arrest this month in Iran of six independent filmmakers for allegedly providing the BBC with video and news reports perceived as damaging to Iran.
The BBC said its Farsi channel had bought rights to the filmmakers' films in the past but had not commissioned their work. Neither Iran nor the BBC have identified the filmmakers by name.
The intelligence chief, Heidar Moslehi, also accused the BBC of operating as a cover for British intelligence and of seeking to harm Iran by hosting Iranian dissidents. He made the remarks to Iranian state television on Sunday.

Philippine authorities have ordered the evacuation of more than 100,000 people as typhoon Nesat brought heavy rains and strong winds.
The eastern province of Albay, 325 kilometres south-east of Manila, is in the path of Typhoon Nesat.
Governor Joey Salceda suspended school classes and stopped small sea vessels from sailing due to strong winds and huge waves.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said in a televised speech Sunday that he remains committed to implementing the Gulf Cooperation Council's (GCC) initiative on power transfer, and called for dialogue with his opponents.

Saleh was delivering his first speech since he returned to Yemen Friday after receiving medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. He was severely injured in an attack on the presidential palace in Sanaa on June 3.

In the speech marking the 1962 Yemeni revolution that brought him to power, Saleh thanked Saudi Arabia and the United States for their assistance to Yemen in coping with the economic crisis and fighting al-Qaida militants.

The Chinese government has punished a total of 57 officials for 11 forced demolitions that resulted in deaths of residents.

All the cases occurred after a new regulation took effect which ruled that local governments are forbidden to forcibly dismantle residential houses before a people's court rules it can, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Supervision and other three government authorities yesterday.

The unmanned Tiangong-1 module was originally scheduled to be launched into low Earth orbit between September 27 and 30. However, the forecasted arrival of a cold air mass at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center has pushed the launch back to September 29 or 30, depending on weather and other factors.

Kat Von D and Jesse James split up again. Yes, AGAIN. Von D confirmed the news with one of her tedious, whiny Fabebook posts lacking any real substance or self-awareness. In some kind of weird listicle better suited to a 12-year-old’s MySpace, Von D tells fans she’s not moving from Los Angeles to Texas where James lives, her L.A.-based tattoo parlor and art gallery are not closing, and ‘I am not in a relationship. (And I apologize for all the ‘back and forth’ if it’s caused any confusion). She’s clarifying for those who were confused by the July 26 break-up and then her August 19 announcement that she was back with James and planning a life of cancelled reality shows and tattooed anti-Semite babies. Once again, she’s gone running to People.com for her exclusive statement (Us Weekly has nothing): ‘It was clear to me that we were just on two different paths in life. My friend put it best when he said I could never be more deserving of total, noble love. And as a woman, I think it’s important to know your value and never lose sight of that… I wish Jesse nothing but the best in life and in love.’

Matthew Morrison never met Britney Spears when she shot her 'Glee' cameo because she was surrounded by security.Britney Spears met few members of the 'Glee' cast when she appeared on the show.