'Help deny us not North Korea'

30 April 2011, last updated at 09: 33 GMT that stops US food aid to North Korea in the year 2009 when Pyongyang said it wanted to was not more US officials refused a prosecution of former President Jimmy Carter that food aid from North Korea are deprived of the United States.

A State Department of official said that the North Korean Government for the plight of the people was responsible.

US food aid was to the North, said that it did not want to, was suspended two years ago.

North Korea warned this year due to a hard winter of severe food shortages. The UN has announced to distribute emergency food aid.

The UN World Food Programme said 3.5 million people in the North, suffering from malnutrition would be fed.

The operation "include is the highest standards of monitoring and control, so that food gets to where it is needed," said the WFP.

A regular concern of donors to North Korea is that aid to the armed forces of large abgeschöpft Gets and neediest not reached.

US and South Korea officials have blamed North Korea's autocratic Government for the chronic food shortages the country faces.

North Korea relies for famine in the 1990s on food aid.

'Violation of human rights'

After a three-day trip to North Korea last week Mr Carter accused the United States and South Korea of the human rights violations against the North Koreans by withholding food aid.

"The most important human rights having to eat, and deliberately withhold aid for the North Korean population of South Korea and the United States and other food is really a violation of human rights," he said.

"As you, the North Koreans know who the utility were abruptly suspended in 2009, our humanitarian personnel for the country leave order and 20,000 tonnes left US food," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of the political PlanungJacob Sullivan, said.

"Everyone, who for the plight of North Korean, and that is the North Korean Government is responsible," he said.

State Department spokeswoman Darragh Paradiso on Thursday wrote that U.S. policy toward North Korea was "consistent with our long-standing aim emergency humanitarian aid for people in countries around the world, where it legitimate humanitarian needs".

"About the well-being of the North Korean people", remained the United States concerned, she said.

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VIDEO: Obama visits tornado hit Alabama

Help, 29 April 2011 last updated at 10:19 pm

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Tornado's wake

Last updated 29 April 2011 to 22: 36 GMT by Daniel Nasaw BBC News, Tuscaloosa (Alabama) Tuscaloosa, which has a population of about 90,000, was by a massive tornado directly through the heart of the city, which cut devastated the tornado tore through Tuscaloosa on Wednesday was a fickle beast.

It completely flattened some districts but spared other, dozens of houses on a street razed to the ground in the leave a few standing and destroyed some homes save each room where a family took refuge.

Since excavated the city from the ruins on Friday, described this luck enough with their lives and their homes intact survival a different kind of heartbreak of those forced to rebuild.

"It is almost a survivor guilt," said Donny Selman, 33, who crouched under a mattress in a corridor with his pregnant wife during the tornado trees in almost every house on the block, but his thrown.

"I feel blessed and grateful, but the loss of life was great." It's almost like, why us? "Why were we spared?"

Unimaginable destruction

Chris Rhodes, 22 year old student at the University of Alabama, took refuge devastated with three friends in his bathroom as the Twister the neighborhood.

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Chris Rhodes, 22, was used for tornado warnings and said he was not inclined to take it seriously.

But on Wednesday, he and three friends in his home a more dire warning - the Twister heard even as it approached.

He said "This sound, as if they were 1,000 mph in a car with all Windows would open that". "It was the most horrible, explain what - you can not it - the sound of Windows breaking and click trees."

Refuge in the bathroom as the tornado took a pass through the garden, spinning the friends brick by a wall in the House and move a tree on to Mr Rhodes Honda pick-up truck.

"We thought that covered the roof on the head," he said.

Three young students in the House across the street were killed, and Mr. Rhodes said is he not sleep disturbed by the fact that he during the neighbors survived not less than 100 ft but removed.

"they were concerned about the same thing to hear the same thing." "And then they're gone."

On the other side of the street, three fellow students were killed when a tree on her house fell.

"I still what you think do not know", he said as he and his father downed trees from the street with a chainsaw losgesagt stop.

"I have slept not too well." I games due to the circumstances, the ", what ifs". "

Mile long loop of the city under to pile of twisted metal, shingles, and wood cutting the Twister through Tuscaloosa as a lawn mower with a.

It was tree branches and poured concrete utility pole with ease, uprooted centuries-old trees, and turned over such as Matchbox toy cars.

The tornado tore down house walls, offers spectators, not workers and news crews embarrassingly intimate insight into the people once private material lives - bedrooms and bathrooms revealed to the outside, a student's library of theology texts scattered across a parking lot, a collection from a distance (30 cm) record albums for decades only for lie forgiven Alabama under the hot sun stored.

In a flattened apartments, rain sodden smoke howled as if warning of danger, which already passed had.

While survivors which collected save things could and praised God they for sparing worse, the search and rescue effort continued continued.

Search for dead

Tuscaloosa is under virtual police rule. Movement in the disaster zone is strictly limited to prevent looting, although almost none have been reported, and keep roads clear for emergency vehicles. The Mayor imposed a curfew from 2000 local time (0100 GMT) for Friday night.

The city of the dead was on Friday at 42 dead and more than 900 injured, with both figures expected to rise.

"In the cadaver dogs today we bring are", said Heather McCollum, Assistant to the Mayor of Tuscaloosa.

Nearly two days after the storm, a woman with cerebral palsy was found left behind in the wreckage of block of flats and carried out in apparent health of volunteers.

Emergency workers have started with dogs to help, put in the ruins in Tuscaloosa find

A group of young people from a church, a storm damaged area offers food and to survivor patrols were water had, heard dogs barking in an abandoned house. She released half a dozen pit bulls, promised that hungry, but playful turn around a shelter dogs.

Chris Nicholson, a 23-year-old engineer, hid with his fiancée in the bath at the heart of their small apartment.

The tornado roared overhead and sucked all the water from the toilet how huddled the couple together and prayed.

"I can describe it not really." It was not a cry, only a constant rumble such as an aircraft engine, "said Mr Nicholson."

Their apartment was largely undamaged. But three people in the two-storey block of flats remained on Friday is missing, and one twisted metal structure, either a crane or a lighthouse that had crushed their upstairs neighbors apartment.

"We were one of the luckiest," he said.

Brane Marion, a 24 year old student in psychology, hunkered down in an unsealed concrete protection in the garden behind the House with her brother and spiffy, a 12-year-old African Grey parrot, as the tornado approached.

The nerve shaken bird began beeping noise - imitating the alarm system on their House, said Mrs Marion.

As the tornado passed overhead, she and her brother the bird cage tight to hold spiffy from the is sucked away keep.

"It was a bit of humour," she said of the bird's not cry. "Inappropriate humor, perhaps."

The temperature topped on Friday 24 ° C under bright, sunny skies and Alabamans that were able to aid and comfort to their offered neighbours of the way they knew how - through their churches with grills.

"It's a shame it appears, people together", Dan Williams, Harvest Church, said the 700 people fed on Thursday.

On Friday said residents they were disoriented walking and driving through neighborhoods, where she had lived for decades. The storm had flattened all the sights - the dentist's Office, which store car parts, debris left Boy Scout Club House - uniform pile.

"It looks like the bomber have come through,", said John Duckworth, 78.

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Future music

Laurie Anderson is madness in the world with their show on the road.

Experimental music lovers in the UK may know that Laurie Anderson for their 1981 O at number two in the UK achieved Superman, the eerie minimalist piece taken.

Born in Chicago and married to the Velvet Underground's Lou Reed, has five decades stretched her career.

Laurie Anderson sound has as new technologies, to the adaptation of the instruments and software terms according to their genre defining artistic vision developed.

It was recently, NASA's first artist-in-residence and was part of the team behind the music for the opening ceremony for the Olympic Games in Athens.

In an interview with the BBC's Colin grant, Laurie reflects a career always defined by the technology available to it.

"Many years ago, in the 1970s and 1980s, the equipment I used was Studio-equipment."

"It was tender, and broke all the time, and a number of fields." I have the speakers on stage - that no one was doing. "They were made only for the Studio."

Much of her early work should be to accompany part of theatre performance or artistic installations.

Their first single, is it not the ball, music for an installation at the Holly Solomon Gallery in New York in the Laurie that kills you (it's the hole), was played by a jukebox.

Hacking tools

Modern times have Laurie to lose this early limitation rooms and bring their experimental sound in more places than ever before given.

"I swore that I would like to with no boxes travel."

"What I have done in the last year a lot of software that fields replace written will."

Laurie hacks as well as creating software to their hardware.

In the 1970's re-jigged a violin, magnetic tape, which triggers audio samples, if the arc touches the strings horsehair replace them.

Created their own software to their artistic vision track Laurie

Another invention involved adapting a wooden table, so that it plays music through your arms.

But their affection for adaptation and improvement of the technology has its limits.

"Is it really like people to make music?" Yes! It does.

"Does it it in the most important way?" Probably not.

"Although if you me, that on another day questions I probably a different answer you would because frankly the fact that everyone is now both dazzling terrible and."

Just as terrible, she insists, our satisfaction with sub-standard music compression, especially the is mp3 file format.

"First of all," she said. "Half of the parts are missing."

"Set two guitars, and the compression would that were separation - deleted, therefore the guitar went." "It is simply unbearable to listen to a record, I have on the forever worked."

Her latest work, Wahn, heads to the Brighton festival in next month the framework of a global tour and is described as a personal meditation on life, language, memory and identity.

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Buffett admits to Sokol 'Error'

30 April 2011, last updated at 22: 26 GMT Mr Buffett Berkshire Hathaway's approximately 80 subsidiaries and 21 other employees U.S. billionaire investor Warren Buffett has faced uncomfortable questions from shareholders in his company on the resignation of a top manager is running.

David Sokol Berkshire Hathaway's insider trading rules injured, he said the meeting in Omaha, Nebraska.

Mr. Sokol gehandelten shares worth $10 m (£ 5. 9 m) in Lubrizol before Mr Buffett mount a $damage earthquake takeover to convince.

Mr Buffett admitted he "A big mistake was made" by Mr Sokol not hit when he mentioned the investment in passing.

Berkshire Hathaway already said its first quarter profits fell more than half - a decline of 2 more than $billion - partly because of the insurance losses in connection with the natural disasters in Japan and New Zealand.

The Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting is typically a company's investments are made, but made the less pleasant atmosphere in this year, say the Sokol affair correspondents.

"Straight as an arrow '"

Mr Sokol, who led an energy supplier for the company had was widely tipped to succeed, Mr Buffett, 80, as Chief Executive before his resignation last month when is exposed he bought Lubrizol shares in January.

"He violated our insider trading rules and he violated the principles I was our managers every two years,", said Mr Buffett.

Mr Buffett has previously revealed that Mr Sokol is a "passing note" made on a personal investment in Lubrizol.

Mr Sokol lawyer has Berkshire Hathaway's controversial results

But Berkshire Hathaway's Audit Committee said in a report that Mr Buffett was unaware as Mr Sokol shares have been acquired or that he joined the takeover with Citigroup banker.

"I have a big mistake not say: ' well, if you bought it?'" he admitted.

Lubrizol jumped 28% on the New York Stock Exchange on 14 March when Mr. Buffett one much to buy the company announced.

Mr Sokol lawyer said on Wednesday that his client had no reason to believe that Mr Buffett Lubrizol would want to buy at the time he purchased shares, and that he had studied the company months before Lubrizol was mentioned during a meeting with Citigroup investment banker in December.

"He would be not, not, not properly, nor does it violate fair read-the Berkshire Hathaway policies," said a statement.

Mr. Buffett is more than 70 subsidiaries, which employ more than 250,000 people, with the help of his 87-year-old Vice President, Charles Munger, and 20 others at the headquarters of the company's Berkshire Hathaway.

Mr Buffett said also shareholders, that he is not sure that to accept it, most likely successor was Sokol was justified.

He said "Certainly the candidates, I think now is the leading candidate, I much would pay attention, that he is as straight as an arrow,".

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Political Quake warning

30 April 2011, last updated at 02: 29 GMT the Conservatives and liberal get have a shock through the swell in support for the new democratic PartyCanada 2 elections a political earthquake can trigger: Prime Minister Stephen Harper's conservative could by a left-wing party, who once trailed be thrown in the polls, reports the BBC's Andrew North of Toronto.

Re you' by the BBC? "You the BBC?"asked the Canadian voters we met generally.

"Yes, the BBC," said.

"So what do you here?" "You should cover the Royal Wedding will be."

Hardly a confidence vote on the importance of own elections.

Were true, Canada's third election always fight in just five years for attention, go, even if Prince William and his bride not down walking the course was.

It is only possible, however, that Canada is of a political earthquake.

' Growing rebellion'

To go with just a few days, opinion polls suggest the leftist new Democratic Party (NDP), previously languishing in a close second behind the incumbent conservatives, under the leadership of Prime Minister Stephen Harper increased sitting with voters, has.

Instead the majority, he hoped, because he fights way what do what looks like a growing rebellion against Canada's political mainstream.

The other largest party, the Liberals could push profits by the NDP to the edge.

"This is the strangest choice I've seen in more than 40 years," says veteran political journalist and moderator Dennis Trudeau.

If the results of the surveys match on Monday, Jack Layton, who never makes could the NDP and its charismatic leader have held above, even form a minority Government and reverse Canada right, Pro us drift.

Out on the stump in the constituency Brampton Springdale, one of the main battlegrounds, you could feel the change of in sentiment.

"I vote for this guy," says an elderly man, on a campaign leaflet picture of NDP leaders, such as local candidate of the party Manjit Grewal went door to door.

Horror in his voice, he admits that he last for the conservative party in the elections voted.

"they are only for rich people, the Conservatives and Liberals," says Hazel Crawford, explain why she would like to vote for the NDP.

Mr Grewal, local taxi drivers and for the first time candidate, recognizes his surprise at the response he received.

From behind

The NDP came in a distant third at the last elections in 2008.

Opinion polls suggest that NDP Jack Layton gained increasing support in the last few days

In the local Conservative Campaign Office in the city of Brampton, the party's supporters optimistic see Ontario attempted.

Conservative parm Gill was defeated by the Liberals with only 700 votes in the last elections.

The party was a large amount of resources to Brampton, taking over a whole floor of a large office block and filled it with computers, telephones, and scores of election monitors, all under the supervision of a senior expert parachute from the party headquarters in Ottawa campaign.

Campaign brochures in different languages of your choice in the area have printed large minority populations.

If the conservative places such as Brampton-Springdale, a suburb of Toronto, Canada can win the largest city, they could be on course for a majority. But after the NDP surge, the result here is hard to predict.

The Liberal Party here seems still nervous – no one would even talk with us.

Unexpected race

No one saw coming.

Many Canadians this choice is considered to be a straight race between the conservative and the Liberal Party, led by former academic and journalist Michael Ignatieff.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is as too inexperienced, the NDP lead Canada criticized.

Together, the two parties of Canada have dominated political scene.

Despite the conservative before charges of sleaze, Mr. Harper was banking on his economic record to secure him a third term.

This time he has hoped, almost, without that qualify for the ad-hoc support of other parties to form the legislation passed as he has done since 2006.

But Mr. Harper and Mr. Ignatieff have failed with voters that is connection.

Analysts have said, Mr. Layton is seen, as with the common touch, the kind of guy, Canadians would want to have a beer with.

While it was cast as left, many seem also the NDP mix of policies, such as the drag of two sides of the political divide.

For example, it takes the position of the conservative on Canada's budget, promised balance you period of four years.

Have critics, but said his plans don't add up.

Say you would a NDP minority Government likely mean less support for the United States and a new weighting of Canada's approach to the Middle East, analysts.

It was the conservatives who take NDP threat as we with Prime Minister Harper at a rally near the city of Canada's landmark Niagara Falls caught up clearly as seriously.

The rally was settled attack on the plans of the new democratic party.

But these are only the opinion polls. This sudden increase in support could be in the secrecy of the ballot box melt.

It might be the conservative hang on to power by the Division of the Centre and left vote help.

But political observer Dennis Trudeau says: "All bets are".

So you keep a close eye on the elections on Monday. Canada could enter political Neuland.

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US Court backs stem cell funding

30 April 2011, last updated at 02: 04 GMT cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's, A U.S. Court of appeals scientists say stem cell research could help a previous order, suspend, lifted federal funding of stem cell research.

The Washington Court said opponents of the research, which say that it is illegal, because it involves the destruction of human embryos, were unlikely to stop in its application to the financing.

The ruling a significant victory for us President Barack Obama tagged, correspondents say.

President Obama lifted a ban on the funding for research on stem cells in March 2009.

After district judge Royce Lamberth issued an injunction on the move during a challenge – were soon, although this suspension in the appeal, was lifted pending a final decision.

The United States Court of appeals in Washington ruled 2-1 on Friday, that one 1996 US law against federal funding of embryo was destruction "ambiguous" and "not funding ban a research project in which an ESC (embryonic stem cells) is used".

"Relevant day"

Scientists say that the research could lead to breakthroughs for spinal cord injuries and diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease treatments.

Opponents, including religious groups, argue that the research is unethical and illegal.

The lawsuit against federal funds, supported by some Christian groups, was brought against the national institutes of health (NIH).

The NIH and the White House welcomed Friday's ruling.

"This is a significant day - not only for the science, but also for the hopes of thousands of patients and their families, on NIH funded scientists pursue life-saving discoveries and therapies that could come to stem cell research, rely" NIH said Director Francis Collins in a statement.

White House spokesman of Nick Papas said the decision was a victory for scientists and patients.

He said "responsible, stem cell research has the potential, some of our most devastating diseases and conditions deal and offers hope to families of the country and around the world".

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Harry Potter star refuses claim bullying

30 April 2011, last updated at 07: 29 GMT Emma Watson said she was undecided about recovery study claimed actress Emma Watson, denied that bullying drove her to a break from a prestigious US University.

Media reports had said, students at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Iceland, she had teased about her role as Hermione in the Harry Potter movies.

But in a statement on their website, Miss Watson, 21, said: "I have never been harassed in my life."

She said they didn't know what they wanted to do after September, but would focus on the acting career for the time being.

She had in September 2009, first on literature study Brown are entered.

Reports claimed that Potter films - said a reference to a house in Hogwarts, the school for wizards in the Harry students "10 points to Gryffindor" - as Miss Watson in class correctly answered a question.

Miss Watson said: "I felt the need, so you all know the reason I moved a semester of Brown doing nothing proposed how the media have recently with bullying been."

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Please do not try and speculate about what I could do, in September - nobody can possibly know because I don't even know,! "

End quote Emma Watson actress"I have been harassed never in my life, and certainly never for Brown."" This '10 points to Gryffindor' incident never happened.

"I feel the need to say, because Brown students of something so serious accuse such as bullying and of unfair it seems caused me to leave."

Last month she announced that they time from study her film career focus there was.

Although their spokeswoman said last week that Miss Watson at another University would broadcast in the autumn, Miss Watson's statement said: "Please do not try and speculate about what I could do, in September - nobody can possibly know because I still do not know!"

"Brown as my other fellow students I try to find out, my third year and whether I spend it abroad be (this is common)."

In the section frequently asked questions of their website is the first question, "Why you chose Brown University on a British?"

Their is undated reply: "I was torn Ernst, whether stay in the UK or go to the States so you let us face it the UK has some of the best universities in the world." But ultimately, I loved the course Brown and really liked the idea of another country experience and culture, and I must say I have never happier, I absolutely love Brown. "

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US Court makes NFL 'Lockout'

30 April 2011, last updated at 02: 00 GMT the beginning of the 2011 season, which could delay the line off in September, A U.S. Court of appeals has a "lock" on the National Football League (NFL) team owner again in force set, throw the League into chaos.

The decision came hours after players to work, after a judge players, an injunction was returned on Monday to stop the lock.

The dispute began seven weeks after talks on collective bargaining rights and broke sales.

Interfere with the latest comes in the midst of design, where the 32 teams choose you new players.

The design of continued over the weekend, but the College player selected may find that they have their new career with their new can start properly.

NFL team owners imposed the lock the season 2011, last month, the first labour deadlock in the sport threatening since 1987.

The last judgment for the reintroduction of the lockout, had returned many American football players to their teams to meet their trainer and training to start on Friday.

But the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals in St. Louis granted the League request for a temporary stay the injunction on Monday that exits the lock.

The judgment will be time to consider the League request for an appeal against this ruling to the Court.

Judge Susan Richard Nelson, of the lock released, it was "causing irreparable damage to the player was," said.

"Fair Convention"

The most important issue in the dispute between the players and teams is like the League $damage earthquake distribute (£ 5 billion) in annual revenue.

NFL players get 60% of sales, the clubs see owner as too generous at present 32 teams.

The NFL takes $1 billion for costs, but it says that this steep rise since the previous deal was taken in 2006 and now wants to $2 billion, which would mean less money for the players.

The player, whose Karrieren often be reduced by injury, claiming that they deserve a bigger cut of the $damage earthquake per year generated by the NFL.

The talks covered also wages, drug testing, pension benefits, and plans to increase the number of games from 16 to 18.

Have no team activities taken place since the end of the season 2010 - at a time of year as spring and summer camps in general allow coach, with the players in readiness for the start of the season 2011 in September to work.

Meanwhile attention focused that continue over the weekend on the design.

The team with the worst record from the previous season selects first in the draft, with the second worst team of second, and further by the teams. There are seven rounds of selection.

First pick on Thursday was Auburn University quarterback cam Newton, selected by the Carolina Panthers.

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Sony PlayStation game resume

1 Last updated on 06: 50 GMT may 2011 the PlayStation Network allow gamers software download and play with other Sony has said it will restore some services of its PlayStation Network, which was closed after the theft of personal information of about 77 m users.

Sony officials said she had increased the security of their computer systems for user names, e-Mail addresses and logs were stolen.

Executives, including Kazuo Hirai, the head of Sony's PlayStation, apologized for the security breach.

The theft has prompted legal action and investigation in the United States and Europe.

Mr Hirai "The Organization has again been working around the clock, to these services to bring on line and are in the process only after we had checked on our networks, higher level of security," said in a statement.

He is called the leader seen to take, as the head of Sony Corp.

Deep bow

"These illegal attacks mark obviously widespread problem with cyber security," said Mr Hirai statement.

Kazuo Hirai is as a leader seen to take over Sony Corp.

Later, in a press conference, Mr Hirai, and two other Sony executives apologized and bowed deeply.

"We deeply apologize for causing great discomfort and effort for our users," he said.

Users have their first indication that something was wrong with the service, as it was not available on the 20 April PlayStation.

In the following days, Sony three short statements require users be patient while it studied a "external intrusions", issued or hack.

The full extent of the security breach was on 27.

Posted a statement on the official PlayStation blog, the company said user account information for the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services had put at risk for a "illegal or unauthorised intrusions into our network".

Sony said, although credit card data was encrypted, and there was no evidence that it was stolen, theft of data may not be excluded.

In the PlayStation Network gamers software can download and play with other users.

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Breakfast parties

30 April 2011, last updated at 00: 29 GMT by Tom Geoghegan BBC News, Washington DC bulk saw in times square, New York, the US has a long-held fascination with the British Royal family, and it had great expectation of the country. Mark American as the event?

It takes some commitment in the middle of the night on a normal working day to get up to see another country Royal Wedding.

But millions of Americans has only that many of them say that pageantry, romance and pure joy of this very British occasion too tempting were to resist.

More than a dozen us television the event in the small hours, with their top talent, including well-known British names like Piers Morgan and Cat Deeley, broadcasting were drilled to in London all week.

Some of the networks easily adapted their sound, according to the tragic events early in the week as nearly 300 people were killed by storms in the Southeast us.

Brian Williams NBCS top anchor flew back in the United States after his arrival in London, to meet the storm history. But many people said the Royal Wedding was a welcome antidote to the terrible events.

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Jody Milanese and Jason Baletsa saw the wedding at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington DC.

"A special day for Americans is it such a special relationship between the two countries, which is why it is." I love the pomp and ceremony of all, it has to see fun, something so different ", says Jason."

Assembled in Washington DC more than 200 Americans in the grand surroundings of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Ballroom, where the dress code seemed Ascot inspired.

Breakfast served English Bacon strips of bacon and a blend of tea with ingredients in Berkshire, the circle given specially commissioned, purchased including scones and clotted cream, new the with the title of Duchess of Cambridge.

Wedding dresses of their fashion sense inspired were held while more attention was the tailoring elegance of the three dogs, which were the bride, groom and best man.

The owner of the Pug was bride, Lady Lucy, Mame Reiley, 58-year-old political consultant from Virginia.

"Thirty years ago, I at 4 am in the morning rebellion, marry Princess Diana to see," she said. "When her two boys in the Abbey went, it took away the breath." "Today, it is most definitely on everyone's mind."

Lisa Deuschl, 47, wore a ring on the together models of the bride and Princess Diana.

"Every girl dreams of being a King's daughter, swept off their feet by a Prince charming." "We know it will never happen to us but today we can pretend."

Crowds watched that wedding on a big screen in times square and the Empire State building resulted in blue, white and red lights to honor the Royal couple will be in New York.

About began on the West Coast, who wanted to see that it had to live - stay up the service at Westminster Abbey, 0300 of Pacific time.

The failed to terminate 300 guests, including many expats, the cat and fiddle, a British pub on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. And the Waxwork Museum Madame Tussauds established a large screen outside a Hollywood Office.

Other locations in California instead of replay parties at Friday noon, rerun the events for those who appreciated the sleep.

The ceremony in London was the culmination of weeks of U.S. media hysteria, the every aspect of the so called it "the wedding of the century" tips for establishing English scones, the label for high tea (keep the pinky finger to) and to perfect hairstyle as a Kate Middleton.

In Los Angeles, it was the middle of the night

But not everyone was wrapped in royal fever. Hours after the wedding, historian Deborah Cohen, at Northwestern University in Chicago, said there was a discrepancy between the reporting in the media and the query, that the majority of Americans proposed were not interested in:

"There is a huge gender gap also, with women over 40 who are most interested in." "My students map the royals like any other prominent."

Some commentators said they were over with hearing about the wedding fed up, and the event itself some people.

The Clevelander was a sports bar in Cleveland, Ohio, accountants, said Bob Samson, he even knew it.

"It has no effect on me really." I work just went, "he says."

Slightly more than 200 years ago, President John Adams was deeply offended U.S. a monarchist are called after the country had fought a bloody war against a British King.

But the times have changed, and that was a day when - truly flourished for many Americans - their love affair with British royalty free.

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Deaths from US tornados top 340

30 April 2011, last updated at 10: 49 GMT much of Tuscaloosa was on Wednesday the death toll from the tornado, the meeting of the southern us this week has increased, 340, in one of the worst outbreaks of Twister in the history of the country by a mile-wide tornado devastated.

Soldiers and emergency teams looking for bodies and survivors.

More than 200 tornadoes reported over six southern States on Tuesday and Wednesday.

During a visit to Alabama, which bore the brunt of the storms, he said "never devastation like had seen" President Barack Obama.

Mr Obama said city in Tuscaloosa, an Alabama hit by a tornado of mile-wide (1.6 km) on Wednesday.

"We will do all what we, to help reconstruction to these communities,", Obama said. "We make sure that you are not forgotten."

More than 250 people died in Alabama alone - most on Wednesday.

More than a million homes and businesses in the State are still without electricity.

The total death toll of the southern us makes it the second deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. history, the associated press news agency reported.

BBC weather update in the southern us

It says that the largest number of casualties was ever in March 1925, when killed 747 people in the storm that raged through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.

Governor of Alabama Robert Bentley said he expected more bodies are found in the coming days.

The Mayor of Birmingham, the largest city in the State, told reporters on Friday: "All areas of housing, only fully gone." Churches, gone. Companies, gone... "[it] seems like a bomb been is dropped."

Storms and tornadoes have caused also deaths in Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky, Louisiana, Georgia and Virginia.

A state emergency remains in these States.

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Obama sends to Trump's ambitions

1 May 2011 05:06 pm last update would President Obama mixed comedy with some early CampaigningUS President Barack Obama to Donald Trump's presidential ambitions, joke, that the real estate mogul has sent the White House in a casino turn.

Annual during the White House Correspondents Dinner Mr Obama showed a picture of a White House with girls in bikinis drink cocktails in a hot tub.

The President has also fun at the rumors that he was born in the United States.

Mr Trump, the conspiracy theory was revived recently potential Republican presidential candidate.

Mr Obama said that after he published his long form birth certificate this week to settle the issue, Mr. Trump now his attention to more serious questions as could spin, "We the moon landing fake stock?"

During the dinner, Mr Trump, who sat through the barrage ideologically teased comedian Seth Meyers.

"Donald Trump" often said as a Republican, talks about the amazing, Mr. Meyers. "I was just on that he was running as a joke."

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Mexico 'Cartel boss' delivered

29 April 2011 last updated at 7:50 pm Benjamin Arellano will face trial in the United States prosecutors in Mexico, the alleged leader of Tijuana drug cartel, Benjamin Arellano Felix, in the United States have delivered.

The cartel, now weakened once controlled much of the drugs from the Northern Mexican Tijuana in the United States River.

Prosecutors say, that Mr Arellano Felix, 59, led the cartel criminal and financial operations.

He will face trial in a Federal Court in San Diego, California.

Family business

Mr. Arellano Felix in United States Mexican authorities gave federal officials on Friday.

Its height is also known as the Arellano Felix Organization for the family, the Tijuana cartel, thought to have been the main supplier of cocaine and marijuana in the United States.

Benjamin Arellano Felix is accused of leading the cartel from 1989 until his arrest in 2002 his drug trafficking operations supervision and the kidnapping and assassination of rival traffickers, informers and members of the security forces.

Brothers were the most wanted drug traffickers in the 1990's the Arellano Felix

He is also with a view at the expense of money laundering.

After Benjamin Arellano Felix arrested in Mexico in 2002 his younger brother Francisco is believed, the leadership of the cartel 2006 took until his own arrest in the year.

Another brother, Eduardo, it is assumed that the reins for the next two years have taken over in 2008 until his capture.

Mexican authorities believe that the cartel now by a sister, Enedina Arellano Felix, and her son, Luis Fernando Sánchez Arellano is running.

Ramon Arellano Felix, the most of the brothers, was in 2002 in a shootout with the police killed.

Mexican security forces say that cartel is severely weakened, and has taken over much of its turf rival gangs.

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Century exposed to

30 April 2011, last updated at 08: 41 GMT John G Morris is a name that means little for most of you, is likely to press photographers and picture editors it a name most recognize and treasures.

Morris was the editor of the photographer Robert Capa on d day and went on to help the appearance of the postwar image magazine. He was also the first executive editor of Magnum Photos and worked on the Washington Post and the New York Times, Paris 1983 he worked as a correspondent and editor for national geographic.

In the course of his career he has built up a collection of original prints, which are now sold at auction to date 30 April, in Paris. The images are personal gifts of the artists as well as creative work prints from his visual diary.

The prints will be auctioned include images of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Robert Frank, and Dorothea Lange, each a historical document. On the back of some of the prints you will find the stamps of the photographer or image agency; each brand an own story to tell.

Here you will find a selection of them on sale.

Military assessment on a Moskau trolley stop, 1954

Morris:

"This is the photo I, editor in Chief Ed Thompson of life, recommended if he asked me: 'What you see for a cover?'"

"In December I came back from Paris with hundreds of prints of the USSR." I remember on the Customs officers they value asked me how much (in 1954); "I replied"that is what I am here to find out,"."

Robert Capa, Gypsy wedding, Slovakia 1947 in New York in the same year printed

Morris:

"This is my favorite all Robert Capa's pictures." He gave me the pressure as a sort of apology for not photographing a Russian family, when he went there with John Steinbeck, 1947.

"Knowing people are that I needed a family from behind the iron curtain for ladies' Home Journal people series, he stopped to shoot a Slovak family on his way back to Paris and New York." He accidentally a "Gypsy" wedding, which he insisted on for three days had been visited - this is the only photo I always saw. "I love it."

Live at the Saratoga race track, summer 1939 by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Morris:

"When I first became a life researcher/reporter in the summer of 1939, my first outside of the city was assignment employees work with life photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt;" some of Prima Donna.

"Years later looking through his contact sheets to see if he made a photo of me, which I use for my autobiography get that could image, was all I could find the photo of our two shadows as we saw on the Saratoga race track."

Robert Capa at work, 1944

Morris:

"I drove this photo of Robert Capa, as he shot the surrender of the German officers, somewhere in Normandy in August 1944."

"I'm not sure there is a different picture of Robert Capa at work, other than the famous picture post photograph that shows him with the camera."

D day photographers in Grosvenor Square, 1944

Morris:

"This photo of life accredited photographers, shortly before d day 1944 many times the pressure was conducted but I back 1944 to New York in the late fall and had to pass so it get taken by the censorship in Grosvenor Square."

From left to right, back row: Landry, Rodger, Scherschel, CAPA. From left to right front row: Morse, Morris, Scherman.

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"Paradise"

29 April 2011 last updated at 23: 46 GMT Dennis Tito jubilant return to Earth: "I was just back from paradise!" Ten years ago, us multi-millionaire Dennis Tito became the world's first space tourist.

He should have paid for his eight days $20 m in the area.

Mr Tito blasted on 28 April 2001, but only after a struggle for somebody to him - are on the increase of the US space agency NASA refused on the ground, he trained astronaut, was not so that it was the Russians, which facilitates the travel.

To date, only six people in his footsteps - payment for a ticket in the area have followed orbit.

But 10 years on, the temptation to make space tourism more accessible to the masses is just as strong.

Virgin Galactic hopes, in about two years take fare paying passengers into space, and the Russian company has even announced plans for a hotel in the area.

On the tenth anniversary of the flight holiday Dennis Tito into space for BBC World Service is reflected in his eight-day.

There was absolutely no fear. I was so excited and so were my crew mates.

We were in the room, and we thought of nothing else but the success of this mission are.

Watch: Dennis Tito is aboard the international space station

There was absolutely no fears - so it was just a really good, euphoric feeling that the day had finally come.

There was no Shuttle, it was a space capsule; We were literally elbow to sheets.

The countdown began, and it went to the second schedule.

It was a little surprised, as lift-off occurred - I thought it would be much more rigorous; She couldn't believe it, and it could not hear you.

When I experienced a start from the outside, a huge sound was even a mile away.

But none of this belongs in the spacecraft.

'How fly'

As we lifted and the fuel burn began, the vehicle accelerates it held on speeding up and then felt only a gradual build up to G-forces.

Eight minutes and 50 seconds later, the last of the three gs and then NULL-gs connect, if the machine shuts down - this is the most spectacular moment of the flight.

At burn-out, you are weightless; There are pencils, which consists of strings in the cabin are suspended, and begin orbit insertion, the pencils only to swim.

And then looking for my right out the window, I could see, I could see the blackness of space, Earth and the curvature of the Earth and the sight of the Earth from outer space was just spectacular.

I can not always that duplicate euphoric feeling that I had at that moment.

For me it was a 40-year target. Slowly, occurs often reach a major goal in life, but this was instant - it was only at this exact moment.

It was once we have of the suit, which we could float around and to experience weightlessness.

It is really extraordinary, because it is nowhere on Earth, that us or one of our ancestors in the entire history of the Evolution-who experience.

It was a wonderful experience; the feeling of floating is just incredible. Move is not difficult, and you learn very quickly.

When we were on the international space station we had more space - you would selling off an area, very gently, and you would fly in another area.

It was like flying, and that was a lot of fun!

Dennis Tito said that he could lead not the feeling of seeing Earth from space for the first time living Earth

It took two days surrounded the Earth, 16 trains a day, before we caught with the station.

There were three crew members, who were received us for about two months as part of the long-term crew, so they see not many people, and them with open arms.

I think we have a much better view of the Earth from the international space station.

The port-hole we would actually look at the Earth was through the floor, so I was always on the lookout on the Earth.

Then we had some port holes which saw on the page, and we could see the edges of the earth - so we had two different types of views.

We would go from one to another, and I would spend most of the 45 minutes - what is half of a train - and videotaping the view, or listen only to sit for 45 minutes, from peering, Opera and just enjoying the experience.

The images are vivid in my mind. I continue to enjoy it every day!

It went very quickly and probably the largest disappointments thing for me to a total of eight days in space was, I had to go back to Earth.

I would still like to there for months!

For me, there was very little transition from space to Earth.

48 Hours, I was really back to my running - I ran a few miles.

With NASA, there was a strong feeling that my flight should take place not. And I think it is somewhat understandable, it was the first really private space.

And I think that it about me as a private citizen concerns, the number one, were; and number two, my can have qualified me age.

You probably had some reason to be affected.

Future space

I hope that tens of thousands of people to experience what I experienced for 5% of the costs.

"I continue to enjoy it every day": Dennis Tito 10 years on

I think it is a time, it will take 10 or 20 years, where the cost of flying in orbit could be as low as $1 million in today's money.

A lot of money, is certainly a million dollars but there are many millionaires in the world today, and I know people who would spend their last dime on this experience.

I often thought when I spend my last penny I could life on social security for the rest of my life and be more happy, because I had achieved what I wanted to achieve.

It was a feeling of completeness - from then on, everything is a bonus. And everything since then only additional was the last 10 years.

And I think I'm one of the luckiest people alive because of.

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US firms defeat tobacco hospitals

30 April 2011, last updated at 04: 42 GMT hospitals had claimed, that companies the health effects of smoking wrong have a lawsuit filed by hospitals six major US tobacco companies, defeated the compensation for the treatment of patients with smoking caused diseases.

Thirty-seven hospitals in the State of Missouri had claimed that cigarette companies a "unreasonably dangerous" product delivered.

Sought more than $455 m (£ 272 m) had not paid the reimbursement for the treatment of uninsured smokers, the care.

The hospitals to treat many poor, non-paying patients.

They said they needed medical ethics for the treatment of those in need, regardless of their ability to pay.

In the case claimed that tobacco companies manipulated the nicotine in cigarettes and misinterpreted the health effects of smoking, the hospitals.

But a jury in St. Louis rejected their claim.

"The jury agreed United States with Philip Morris, that normal cigarettes are designed or defective, not negligent", said Murray Garnick by Philip Morris.

An official of Lorillard, another company in the case, said: "Convincing evidence the jury, including statements from hospital presented witnesses who confirmed the hospitals were not financially as they claimed damaged."

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Canada's NDP is under the microscope

30 April 2011, last updated at 02: 04 GMT the last polls suggest NDP leader Jack Layton is more and more voters support Canada's new Democratic Party (NDP) has to collect rivals as polls suggest the party closes the gap with conservatives in the run-up to the election of 2 may come under increasing fire from his.

The NDP have the last polls five percentage points behind conservative set.

Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who said NDP would support the Bloc Quebecois, to win the election.

Meanwhile, NDP leader Jack Layton said that he would not affect the Bank of Canada's independence if elected.

Mr. of Layton's comment about Canada's Central Bank came a day after he, that he said the Bank to keep interest rates low, would prompt a flood of criticism from his opponents.

Federal election was called after Prime Minister Stephen Harper's conservative minority Government lost a vote of confidence.

The vote was after his Government was found, in defiance of Parliament, not the full cost of the anti-crime caused programs to be open because, corporate tax cuts and plans to acquire stealth fighter jets from the United States.

NDP gains

Although Mr. of Harper's conservative has are the front-runners in the choice have been seen as the left-wing new democratic party make unexpected gains in the last polls.

A survey of 1,200 Canadians conducted by querying company of nanos to placed research the NDP at 31%, while putting Mr. Harper's conservative to 36%.

Mr. Harper said that higher taxes by an NDP victory could lead on May 2.

Michael Ignatieff's Liberal Party trailed at 22%, and the Bloc Québécois gained only 6%, nanos survey suggested.

But analysts say the new Democratic Party and the Liberals compete in the same segment of the electorate, voters divided and could ultimately contribute to a conservative victory.

A further survey by choice company of Eko's specified 35% support for the Conservatives, with the NDP, which was a distant third at the start of the campaign, at 30%.

Experts suggest that the narrow conservative leadership makes it is unlikely that the party win a majority of seats in the House of Commons.

A Canadian party needs to win around 40% of the vote majority in the House of Commons. To win a majority is also possible, if the gap between the League leaders is more than 10 percentage points.

Conservative warning

Meanwhile, Mr. Harper tries to keep its Quebec seats at a rally in Montreal on Friday.

The Prime Minister said he would look conservative minority Government to form a third, if his party does not have won a majority in the elections on Monday.

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What's weird here is that everyone calls the hockey game in the third period "

end quote Michael Ignatieff, Liberal Party leader Mr Harper also criticized the NDP, say the election would determine whether Canada moved forward or pushed back."

He added that a minority could Parliament with the NDP in the control to out-of-control spending and higher taxes, and that the NDP would support the Bloc Quebecois said to win the election.

The NDP were two Bloc Québécois members their support on Friday, when she, wrote an open letter to Quebec voters to vote for Mr Layton.

Maxime Bellerose and Benoit Demuy, she said is believed to have been sovereignty but changes her voice to support the NDP in the hopes of electing a leftist government.

"For the first time in our political life is social democracy at the door of Parliament!" MPs to take this opportunity to send to Ottawa the high and very the values of all Quebecers of mutual legal assistance and justice take, "the letter said." would be a pity for Quebec not

The letter added that "the solution to break the cycle of the conservative greatly" was voting for the NDP.

"" "People say" you can bring about some change we make,"said Mr. Layton in the campaign.

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff faced questions from journalists about the profits by the NDP on Friday.

"Weird here is that everyone calls the hockey game in the third period." The strange is, "said reporters. Mr. Ignatieff"

"When I see hockey games, I wait until the final whistle." "I do not wait, until the final siren and the final siren sound."

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Counting chickens

30 April 2011, last updated at 23: 56 GMT nine by Dan Smalley chicken houses the storm that left at least 340 dead devastated destroyed by the storm on his destructive path across the southern us this week, also Alabama's important poultry industry, as the BBC's Daniel Nasaw of Red Hill reports.

The baby chicks huddled together outside their ruined home, immersing their beaks in a puddle of water and pick feed shed above the ground.

It was one of the Dan Smalley, which has one of the largest poultry farms in the State of Alabama. But on Saturday, they were his intended not for the table, but disposal facility.

In Alabama on Wednesday, the storm of the State destroyed $2 billion (£ 1. 43bn) a year birds kill poultry industry, levelling chicken houses, and tap feed from power mills and processing plants.

While most of Mr Smalley chicks survived the storm, he estimates that he will lose around 200 000 birds in the coming days because the storm providing what he needs, tend to them.

"We can care for them not", said Mr Smalley, 62, toured as he the farm in a blue Ford pickup truck. "No power, no water."

Reconstruction before

The storm about 200 Alabama chicken houses destroyed and more than 450 others significantly damaged.

Alabama poultry industry is the third largest in the United States, chickens produce about a billion meat (called broiler chickens) each year, and officials estimate it could be six months to a year before the industry resumes full production.

In general the farmers have not the chickens, but raise them at national seller under the contract.

Dan Smalley runs his farm since 1978

Farms like Mr Smalley take day-old chicks, fatten them a diet of corn and soy meal, and truck making it out, if they are shelving rendered six up eight weeks old in a variety of chicken are products for supermarket, restaurants and fast food franchises.

Mr Smalley birds are sold by Pilgrim's pride, the second largest producer in the United States. If you have ordered chicken for Burger King, Chick-fil-A or KFC in the United States, you can one of his birds have cost.

Although most are Alabama farmers not financially from the loss of the animals suffering, they need to rebuild the chicken houses and feed pins and replace destroyed heavy Kit.

Insurance companies are expected to much to cover the losses.

Be repaired in the meantime of damaged hatcheries must and a processing plant and feed mill must be brought back online.

It takes 20-25 weeks for new hens to tires, and three weeks for the eggs to hatch breeder.

Twisted metal

Mr Smalley acre farm, which he has since 1978, is located in a quiet, narrow Green Valley about 40 miles (65 km) from the nearest town.

In one the warm air the last afternoon smelt of strong chicken feces and soil and virtually every structure and vehicle on the farm was covered dirty one collective area of chicken down through the storm white sprinkled.

Twisted Metal from the roofs of chicken were scattered over a field such as old leaves of the newspaper.

Nine of his 15 chicken houses - long, simple, who spend most of their short life scales in the more than 20,000 chicks - were destroyed.

Without the ability to feed and water his chickens and transport to processing establishments must Mr put it down Smalley, he says.

"they are what let me life all these years," Mr Smalley said a corpulent man with a thick, syrupy southern, stretched.

"We take it as best we can." "But we make no money for a while, not looks like."

'Used to adversity'

Neighbors stopped by their support offering, but Mr Smalley told them he was not ready, a displayed.

He said he had to wait, until the insurance company to decide, which houses he had to tear down and which could be rebuilt.

"We are still in the chicken business," he said. "But to what extent, I don't know."

Guy Hall, poultry Director of the Alabama Farmers Federation, predicted that most chicken farmers insurance cash and would get back to work.

He said "In the past are adversity,". "Most farmers used to deal with the weather."

"they are operated outages and winds, ripping things." They are only elastic people, and they are used to work 365 days a year. "If you have livestock, she have to be checked every day."

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Economic growth last week measured the purchase: ECRI

New York | Fri Apr 02, 2011 10 am

New York (Reuters)-a measure of future economic growth of the United States dipped last week, its lowest level in more than a month, a study said on Friday.

Recycling Research Institute, New York-based independent forecasting group, said its leading index slipped 129.3 finished week weekly 22 April from the previous week 131.7. It was the lowest level since the week of 18 March 129.1.

Annualized growth rate of the index also dipped to 7.5 percent from 7.7% a week earlier.

(Reporting by Solomon Lea, edited by Chizu Nomiyama)

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Office enhances Microsoft profits

28 April 2011 last updated at 21: 11 GMT Microsoft said consumers were buying your Office applications on a "tremendous rate" technology giant Microsoft a sharp jump in quarterly reported profits, thanks to strong sales of your Office applications, and despite a decline in the sales of the Windows operating system.

NET was income in the three months to the end of March $5. 23bn (£ 3. 14bn), an increase of 31% to $4 the company a year ago. Sales increased by 13% to $16. 43bn.

The company said that it made the "strong results despite a mixed environment with PC".

Windows 7 revenues fell by 4%.

The drop reflected a jump in the wider market for PCs.

Beating went analysts expectations on total sales, despite shares to Microsoft in the post-trading slightly, reflecting concerns core Windows sales.

"The concern is markets are disturbed," Colin Gillis BGC in said financial.

"But it is also overblown if you factor in that Windows 7 is the fastest-selling operating system in history."

Sales in all other areas of the company picked up on a year earlier.

The turnover of the company's entertainment and devices division grew by 60%, fueled by sales of Xbox consoles and Kinect controllers.

"Consumers are Office 2010, Xbox and Kinect buy at huge prices and companies of all sizes have acquired Microsoft platforms and applications," said Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein.

The company also said that it strong use of its cloud computing services, which saw allow data on remote servers, U.S. are stored in large companies.

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Pair admit Jaycee Dugard kidnap

28 April 2011 last updated at 21: 14 GMT Phillip and Nancy Garrido are on the 2 June sentenced be a few California have known raped guilty charges of kidnapping and a girl is, when she was 11 and keep due to their captive for 18 years.

Phillip Garrido, pleaded had on his victim Jaycee Dugard, and his wife Nancy earlier two children not guilty.

Phillip Garrido could be sentenced to the 430 years in prison, in Nancy 36 years in prison faces.

MS Dugard was kidnapped in 1991 from nearby from her home in South Lake Tahoe when she went to a school bus stop.

She was in a combination of the tents and sheds Garrido with her two daughters, now 13 and 16, in the back yard of home in Antioch, California.

As part of the deal of the Garridos with prosecutors, both waived their right of appeal.

You are planned on 2 June be condemned.

"Courage"

Their surprise change of plea came after prosecutors some charges against Nancy Garrido fall when Phillip pleaded guilty to nearly the full charge, Nancy Garrido said attorney Stephen Tapson agreed.

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Jaycee's courage and willingness to their kidnappers to justice directly led to the defendant's plea and life to confront sentences "

end abduction and sexual assault cite Vern Pierson District Attorney Phillip Garrido guilty to 14 charges due."

Nancy Garrido known guilty a charge of kidnapping and a charge of rape.

It is expected that neither ever prison will leave.

Their change of the grounds means that Ms. Dugard and her children are do not have to testify in a trial.

In a statement published their spokeswoman, Ms. Dugard said: "I am relieved that recognised Phillip Nancy Garrido Finally, their guilt and confessed their crimes against me and my family."

District Attorney Vern Pierson paid tribute to Ms. Dugard.

"Jaycee's courage and willingness to their kidnappers to justice directly led plea to the defendant and confront life," he said.

Police in California came under fire after Ms. Dugard discovery and freedom 2009 because Phillip Garrido is a criminal rape, had with a kidnapping, and was on the sex offender list.

MS Dugard was released after police officers at the University of California in Berkeley Garrido on the campus with her and their children, and was suspicious.

You contacted Garrido's parole officer and he was arrested and in a parole hearing.

MS Dugard received a $20 m (£ 12 m) acknowledged the settlement of California, which repeated errors in the monitoring of Phillip Garrido.

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Midwest business barometer falls in April

Chicago | Fri Apr 02, 2011 10 am

Institute for supply management-Chicago business barometer decreased 67.6 in April, from 70.6 in March. Economists had forecast an April reading of 68.5.

The employment component of the index fell from 65.6 63.7 in March. New orders came down from 66.3 74.5. Reading above 50 indicates expanding regional economy.

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Jobless claims jump last week

A man looks over job opportunities at the Center in San Francisco, California, in this file February 4, 2010.

Credit: Reuters/Robert Galbraith/files

Washington | Thu 28 Apr 2011 10 am EDT

Washington (Reuters)-United States claims that the new unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly last week to their highest level since January a recovery expected in the work may take some time, a Government report showed on Thursday.

Initial claims for State unemployment benefits jumped to 25,000-seasonally adjusted data, from 404,000 slightly upwardly revised the previous week, said the Department. Economists polled by Reuters had expected coming of claims to browse to the-392,000 previously reported, according to 403,000.

Jobless claims below 400,000 are associated with a steady growth.

Four week moving average a better measure of the underlying trends, climbed to 408,500 from 399,250 the previous week. It was the highest for four weeks since February.

The number of people still receive benefits under programs normal mode after the initial week of aid tumbled more than expected in the week ended 68,000 April 16 to 3.64 million, the lowest level since September, 2008. Analysts expected a drop in the continuation of 3.68 million.

(Reporting by Mark Felsenthal, edited by Chizu Nomiyama)

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Bernanke said the economy needs more time to heal

Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke addresses the first regularly scheduled press conference by the leader of the Federation after a meeting at the Federal Reserve in Washington Federation, April 27, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Jason ReedBy Mark Felsenthal

Washington | Friday April 29, 2011 3 Moon

Washington (Reuters)-the economy of the United States has not completely recovered from a deep recession, with housing still weighing on growth, Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke said on Friday the Central Bank spelling of successful speech of United States studying lower income communities.

"Our economy is far from being where we want it to be," he said in comments prepared for a conference call.

The Federation earlier this week, said he sees the 600 billion dollar bond purchase program, launched in November-spur recovery, through to its conclusion planned at the end of June.

The world's largest economy grew at an annual rate of 1.8 percent in sluggish three months of the year, but unemployment is 8.8 percent.

Depressed housing market is holding back economic recovery, Bernanke said. Homework foreclosure stay high and many families find themselves owing more than their homes are worth.

"Of course, the housing market issues and are not related," he said.

Chairman of the Federation said the Federation research shows that loans to people, businesses, through a community development financial institutions can boost economic activity. That the business generates tax revenues that in turn the Government spending in ways that benefit these communities, he said.

"We are in the Federal Reserve will remain close to the economic health of nearby communities, including low-and moderate-income communities," said Bernanke.

With the rise of gas prices, inflation concern is some Federation pressure to increase the policy after the unprecedented measures the pressure, aggressive. The number of representatives of the Federation believe that the Central Bank should act quickly to pare its bloated balance sheet and other central banks worldwide have started to raise interest rates in response to price pressures.

However, the Federation made a statement at a press conference by Bernanke on Wednesday that the high jobless rate, with vast wealth lost, inflation levels still not much higher than the weekly Central Bank, has an immediate intention to withdraw support.

Bernanke said Friday the economy is recovering at a moderate, was "welcome, if gradual" improvement in the labor market.

(Editing by Neil Stempleman)

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Euro zone inflation rises, points to higher prices of USA

By Jan Strupczewski

Brussels | Fri Apr 02, 2011 10 am

Brussels (Reuters)-inflation in the euro area rose even more over the destination of the European Central Bank in April, the chances rise of interest rates in June, despite the weakening of the economic, to respond to the demand of the household.

Inflation in 17 countries with the euro rose to a level of 2.8 percent this year, the year this month from 2.7% in the month before, the highest level since October 2010, when it was 3.2 percent.

Consensus expectations for a flat reading was compared to March ahead of the meeting of the European Central Bank interest rates next Thursday. Analysts said the numbers picked up the odds in the attic in in June.

"Although we expect a growth rate of the July meeting, the balance of risks to move previous slant type," said Aline Schuiling, Senior Economist at ABN AMRO.

The United States raised the interest rate on the main record weekly of 1.0% to 1.25% in April, concerned about the impact on consumer prices rising costs of energy and food.

"Upside surprise in our forecast may be stronger than expected due to the influence of the late Easter, which means that core inflation was probably a touch stronger than we thought," said Marco Valli, Economist at UniCredit.

"We see inflation hover around the current level for a while, with additional acceleration to 3 percent probably towards the end of the summer".

Other data this month, however, suggested the euro zone's growth figures in Germany, Spain, the biggest economy in Europe's debt crisis threat, showed unemployment soaring, retail sales draft.

Monthly survey of the European Commission showed the euro zone economic answer as a whole fell for the second consecutive month in April, from 106.2 to 107.3 in March, below market expectations of a decline to 107.0.

"The combination of high oil prices, strong euro finance and monetary conventions, and tightening the economic atmosphere in the region began to dent the euro," said Martin van Vliet, Economist-ING.

The answer was through all sectors of the economy except for construction, with the most stable consumer optimism to 11.6 from-10.6 in March.

No increase in the loan

Data also showed that in the annual growth rate of loans to the private sector to a single currency in the region slowed in March, bucking expectations increase, but the M3 and accelerated growth.

Belgium, a bellwether for the euro area economy, reporting faster than expected first quarter economic growth of 1% bbrbon quarter, against an average of 0.6 percent expected by economists polled by Reuters.

"Monetary data continue to point to a modest recovery in the euro area and loan growth," said Christoph Balz, an economist at Commerzbank.

"While the data itself is not a risk to price stability requires reverse tightening monetary, are further proof that the economic situation has changed significantly since 2009--and that is why the United States think more suited to low interest rates.

GDP data for the entire euro zone is on 13 May.

Further evidence of the weakening of household demand was seen in the retail sales data.

Sales in Germany fell in March, the expectations of an increase as derisive to consumers to buy supplies and less during the month when the inflation and the threshold of 100 percent.

Designed for consumer price rises, sales declined by 2.1% in, and 3.5 percent in the year.

Drop in demand of the consumers was bold more peripheral countries euro "," wishing to return and win public confidence in the market there with a difficult austerity measures.

Sales in Spain fell 8.6 percent this year, a year in March, Greece is 10.6% in February.

Consumer inflation expectations in the euro area, which has been falling rapidly since November 2010, ends slightly lower to 30.7 from 19.1. Selling price expectations between manufacturers, an increase since August 2010, fell more than 13.4 mark them from 24.4.

Business climate indicator for the European Commission, which indicates the stage of the business cycle, also fell for the second consecutive month, 1.28 points from 1.43 in March.

"However, the current level of the indicator stays close to the historic peaks, suggesting that the recovery will continue in the coming months," said the Commission.

Eurostat data showed that euro zone unemployment held steady at 9.9% of the workforce in March.

(Additional reporting by bureaux Brussels, Madrid, Berlin, Frankfurt, Athens; editing by Rex Merrifield , Patrick Graham)

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Chicago | Thu 28 Apr 2011 3 Moon

Chicago (Reuters)-Ben Bernanke optimistic view regarding the inflation pressure in the test.

Federal Reserve and its Chairman on Wednesday repeated their position that the starting price for the goods-such as oil and food-????"???."

But a growing number of consumer product companies in the u.s. say they plan to push up the prices of their sales to cover the cost of fuel for the big jump in raw materials.

Procter Gamble Co & vkimbrli-Clarke Corp. say they will charge more diapers, toilet paper, detergent; Colgate-Palmolive Co. is raising prices toothpaste.

This is bad news for consumers already squeezed by rising gas prices.

Yet even the policymakers of the Federation who raised the alarm on inflation from the decision of the Central Bank on Wednesday to give its 600 billion dollars to buy bond program set to the end of June.

"Unfortunately for inflation hawks is simply not strong enough, he did not move large enough to create its own unique policy directive," said Richard Hastings, consumer strategist at the global strategies of the Hunter, energy prices.

By the end of the year, he predicted, Yes.

"You're starting to see the formation of enough inflation policies of the Federation to change later this year," he said.

Bernanke hholiia super easy monetary policy of the Federation have-?????? progress towards the goals of the world's Central Bank stable prices and employment.

Unemployment, at 8.8 percent, is down to its own high last year, the risk of deflation has receded.

But as inflation rises, is likely to get a point, Bernanke made Wednesday when asked about the benefits of buying more still debt to push down to ask costs.

"It is not clear that we can begin improvements payrolls without some additional inflation risks," he told his first news conference after meeting ongoing policy setting in the Federation.

Inflation as measured by the price index for personal consumption expenditure core ' jumped 1.5 percent in the first quarter, government figures showed Thursday, a jump of 0.4% in the previous quarter.

Bond market pricing inflation risk, investors will work a higher preferred inflation gauge of the Federation, with the spread between 10-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities standard 10-year bond annual inflation of implying 2.57 percent in the year 2021, below the peak of 2.65 percent.

The sign of concern among investors about inflation, 20 billion iShares Barclays tips bond traded is his trading at the highest level since November.

If you speed up inflation, the Central Bank of the United States you may need to raise rates quickly, turning the tables on countries like Brazil, which tried to stem the flood of capital they blame in part on the near zero rate policy of the Federation. But representatives of the Federation not to expect.

Predictions and mapdrcia on Wednesday, the core index, which excludes food and energy costs, rising from 1.3 percent and 1.6 percent this year, still far below the official target of 2 percent is not of the Federation.

Inflation rates in the United States bar is living in many parts of the world.

European Central Bank hiked rates for the euro area from the shelves after inflation increased to 2.7 percent.

Now, representatives of the Federation's new forecasts also show expects inflation sharply higher this year, title, and 2.1 percent and 2.8 percent.

Bernanke said the price increases on goods region "quite a lot of" unexpected increase persist.

"There is a lot of Federal Reserve you can do about gas prices, at least not without derailing completely growth, which is definitely not the right way to go," said Bernanke. "Our view is that gas prices will not continue to rise at last."

Including food and energy prices, increased domestic rate 3.8 percent, and PCE his fastest since the third quarter in 2008.

"We have a different mapdrcia as low," said Michael pond, co-head of the US strategy in the price of Barclays Capital in New York City. "We think it is a broader commodities when emerging market economic growth is most likely a structure up pressure on the prices of goods."

Along with the dollar falling, which raises the cost of imports, these trends could raise inflation for several years, said: "the risk of inflation expectations is something markets should pay more attention."

The sides still, most economists are and break it with the Federation, at least for now.

Wages, costs for large input, they are rising only slowly. And consumers concerned about employment and higher priced balk, they say.

"We talked about wanting to go to business costs, and already speaking of wishing to move to the costs," said Michael Feroli, Chief u.s. economist at JPMorgan Chase. "Generally they have been driven by the type of weak demand."

(Reported by Anne Sapphire with reporting by Lucia Mutikani in Washington, Richard Leong in New York, Jessica Wohl in Chicago, edited by Chizu Nomiyama)

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Amazon apologizes for cloud error

29 April 2011 last updated at 15: 27 GMT foursquare was one of the sites affected by the technical fault - the online retailer Amazon has excused for an error in their Web hosting service EC2, which knocked many popular sites.

Last Thursday caused go failure sites including foursquare, Reddit and Quora, offline, a few days.

EC2-Elastic Compute Cloud - provides computing power and storage for enterprises that have not their own data centers.

The apology comes after a week of silence on the matter.

Amazon gives user a 10 day cloud services credit, regardless of whether they were affected.

Cloud computing is a fast growing company, which is essential for the growing number of companies and people who use it for remote storage data.

It offers individuals and businesses the opportunity to rent virtual space.

Provider of cloud such as Amazon's hosting sites and other data in server farms.

The most important story you read on "Critical services"

• Convenient: IT service provider that hosts services for several companies. Joint complex infrastructure is cost efficient and you pay only for what you use.

• Quick: fundamental cloud services work out of the box; for more complex software and database solutions, cloud allows computing you the hardware procurement and investments, skip phase.

• Up to date: most providers constantly update their software offers, add new features as they become available.

• Scalable: you can quickly grow, because cloud based with a significant increase in the workload to deal with.

• Mobile: cloud services to be used from a distance, so you have a mobile workforce, staff on most of your systems on the go can access.

A statement on the Amazon website said: "we know how important our services are for our customers and we will do everything, we from this event to learn and it can use to drive improvement of our services."

Amazon has promised, "spend our understanding of the details of the various parts of this event many hours in the coming days and weeks improvement and determine the changes to improve our services and processes to make".

Detailed technical explanation, it described what was gone wrong process memory with his data.

It said there was a problem, if you change a configuration, which gives his primary and secondary systems to fail and overload.

Amazon had then it stop and start, including physically moving servers.

Amazon statement on Friday, said: "Everything is now always be normal."

It ended with: "last but not least, we want to apologize."

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Obama shocked by tornado damage

29 April 2011 last updated at 18: 08 GMT has President Barack Obama storm destroyed communities in Alabama visited as South Eastern US States face up to the time after the devastating storms. U. S. He said President Barack Obama "devastation like this has never seen" after a tornado devastated the town in the southeastern state of Alabama.

In Tuscaloosa Mr Obama said that Washington would do everything to help communities rebuild.

At least 297 people are known to be died of tornadoes that have copied by a swathe of the States, 210 in Alabama.

Also, widespread devastation was reported in Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia and Virginia.

State of emergency has been in seven States declared, and federal aid is sent to Alabama.

'Heartbreaking'

"We go to ensure that you are not forgotten," said Mr Obama Tuscaloosa survivors such as he and his wife, Michelle, who toured the devastated city.

Read the main story of Daniel Nasaw BBC News, Tuscaloosa

The destruction here is almost apocalyptic. As far as the eye can see, Tornado reduces a busy thoroughfare in a thriving university town to a huge pile Wednesday rubble.

Twisted piles of metal and gravel, decades old trees, downed power lines and cars deprived paint - the scene on the McFarland Boulevard in Tuscaloosa conjures images of the Japanese tsunami.

The disaster scene is also incredibly quiet, save the occasional rumble of heavy equipment and the pounding of sledge hammers electricity company teams fight restore power.

Police have set up by roadblocks in the areas around the worst destruction - attempt to keep the area free from looters and onlookers.

Some people say that they run out of food and water, baby wipes, and SOAP. The call - in lines on local talk radio programs are filled with desperate appeals for help.

A Twister probably a mile wide (1.6 km) through the City earlier this week plowed.

More than a million homes and businesses of Alabama are still without electricity.

Earlier in the White House, Mr. Obama said: "The loss of life is heartbreaking, especially in Alabama been."

Mr Obama added: "I want every American to know that the Federal Government will do everything, which by this disaster we to the restore can, has affected, and we will be with you, as you rebuild."

The US National Weather Service (NWS) has reports of nearly 300 tornadoes since the beginning of storms on Friday, more than 150 of them on Wednesday alone.

"They were most intense super cell thunderstorms, I think that everyone who ever was forecasting out has seen," said Greg Carbin of the NWS Storm Prediction Center in Oklahoma, the news agency associated press.

The NWS also said that a tornado in Mississippi had winds on Wednesday of 205 km/h (330 km/h) - the first EF-5 tornado in that State since 1966, the associated press news agency reported.

Tornado video - clip first courtesy Chris England/Crimson tide of productions

This is the highest rating of the NWS for tornado damage.

In Alabama, emergency workers as they continue to survivors joined 2000 soldiers.

Many people were picking through the remains of the destroyed houses.

Governor of Alabama Robert Bentley said that he expected, that the death toll to rise as more bodies discovered.

The number of deaths by the recent series of tornadoes is the largest in the United States since 1974, when a sequence of twisters claimed 315 lives in 13 U.S. States.

'Hand wiped out'

Tuscaloosa Mayor Walter Maddox after an aerial tour said: "We have neighborhoods, which essentially removed from the card."

A Tuscaloosa residents, Angela Smith, whose neighbor was killed, told of Reuters: "I have it." "I have in a closet, put a pillow over my face and required for their lives since it started me to suck."

Another city, Hackleburg, it was reported that "90% destroyed".

The Mayor of Birmingham, William Bell, said "all areas of housing, only completely gone." Churches, gone. Companies, gone... "[it] seems like a bomb been is dropped".

More than 25 people died in Phil Campbell, a town of about 1,000 in Northwest Alabama.

Jerry Mays, Mayor of the city, said the tornado which destroyed the town grocery store and medical clinic was a half mile wide and traveled for about 20 miles (32 km).

"We have lost everything." Let's just say, "said Mr. Mays."

Hundreds of thousands of houses makes lost in Alabama have automatically after a nuclear plant when his power was hit by storms, though back-up systems worked, officials said.

Mississippi reported 33 deaths on Tuesday and Wednesday. In Smithville, Mississippi, many buildings were open, smart including a church, the Town Hall and the post.

At least 15 people were killed in Georgia and five in Virginia.

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BlackBerry company warns on profits

28 April 2011 last updated at 23: 09 GMT the company is its hopes on its new playbook, some initiative recover research in motion (RIM) has raised its forecast for the current quarter due to lower shipments of the popular BlackBerry phone profits slashed hold.

The warning - his second in the last month fell over 10% in after-hours trading due to the shares of the company.

RIM said, that it also revenue target of $5 billion (£ 3 billion) would miss on a $5 billion for the period forecast in March.

The company's previous profit warning was due to the cost of the development of its new BlackBerry Tablet format.

It blamed the increasing number of consumers on the way of to cheaper handsets in its product range.

'Lose traction'

The company has eroded U.S. steadily its share of the core market rivals of Smartphone seen.

"This is the beginning of the film," said Edward Snyder at Charter equity research.

"It will be how come air from a balloon slow." RIM is increasingly on low end, relegated almost Smartphone.

"Without a flagship touchscreen, high end Smartphone, they want to lose still traction."

"Transitional challenge"

RIM is the playbook - banks, on his new Tablet PC - regain the initiative.

It will be half as large as Apple iPad and compatible with Google Android operating system.

As the new product launch, the company is upgrading and its operating system.

Some analysts are the company more willing the benefit of the doubt.

Commenting on the latest profit warning, Matthew Robinson said Wunderlich securities: "it is not good news, but in this transitional period there is a set of numbers that move, to have and I don't think we can view it as the incremental."

"Transitions are always a challenge."

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Shipwreck medicine

28 April 2011 last updated at 03: 05 GMT by Jane O'Brien BBC News, Washington Alain Touwaide looks at some of the old texts, which he had a rest is extracted has used in his ResearchDNA of 2,000-year-old plants of an Italian shipwreck, scientists could provide the key for new drugs.

The examples included carrots, parsley and wild onions in tone pills on board the merchant trade ship, which sank 120 BC get. It is believed that the plants by doctors were used in the treatment of illness under occupation.

Appeal time limits are described in ancient Greek texts, but this is the first time the medication itself have been discovered.

"Medicinal plants but not compound medicine to identified so that this really something new", says Alain Touwaide, Director of the Institute for conservation of the medical traditions, has the world's largest digital database of medical manuscripts.

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we extract the information from these texts, so scientists can see if she can make links to pharmacological discoveries "

end quote Director Alain Touwaide, Institute for the conservation of the medical traditions Prof Touwaide works with scientists at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum", which conducted the DNA analysis. They discovered traces of carrots, parsley, alfalfa, celery, wild onion, radish, yarrow and hibiscus contained in the old pills.

The pills, which researchers believe with vinegar or water to them more easily record diluted were preserved in Tin boxes and were the size of the coins.

"I wonder, if the texts only theoretical ideas without implementation," he says. "Now we know that they have been applied."

"Written evidence"

In may, conclusions are Prof Touwaide, based on the DNA results and officially presented his own study of medical texts, an international meeting of archaeologists, historians of medicines and other experts in Rome.

"Remarkable is that we have written evidence [from the ancient Greeks] for the errors, which plants have been used", said Alisa Machálek, a science writer for the national institutes of health, one of the world's leading research centres.

Researchers studied old texts with descriptions of the plants in the pills contained

"This research is interesting, especially for medical historians, because it confirms that what we eat affects our bodies."

Prof Touwaide hopes that his research is to develop the modern treatments.

He says "We extract the information from these texts using, so scientists can see if they can make links to pharmacological discoveries,".

"We re-use old medical information and jump out of the past in the future."

For example the Roman politician Cato recommended eating broccoli to stay healthy and Prof Touwaide with it found references to the Greek physician Galen in the 2nd century for the treatment of intestinal cancer.

Prof Touwaide says that modern research is now underway to connect found in broccoli, which today may isolate a source for the treatment of cancer.

"This is a huge field in chemistry and pharmaceutical science," says Ms. Machálek.

"Native American bark munching on willow pain - now we pop open a bottle and chew aspirin contains the similar connections." "Taxol, a cancer therapy, is derived from the bark of the Pacific yew."

Early Greek texts

To understand the importance of plants in the 2,000-year-old pills contained, Prof Touwaide studied a number of medical works, including the Hippocratic collection.

The collection is still one of the earliest sets of Greek writings and Hippocrates, is as the founder of Western medicine attributed.

It cross-references those findings with other works, such as such as the encyclopedia of natural substances, written in the first century of Dioskurides.

The dark spots above are microscopic small plant fragments found in embedded clay destroyed on board the ship

Dioscorides stated that "the big onion is sharper than the round onion." All bulbs are sharp and apt to cause flatulence. You stimulate the appetite. You are thirsty make. "Clean bowel."

"they are good for opening outlets for different secretions and hemorrhoids, and they as a suppository, pilled and dipped in olive oil" Dioskurides wrote.

A significant percentage of commercial medicines are derived from natural sources, but the active ingredient isolated, concentrated, standardized and was packaged in measured doses.

The shift to synthetic chemical drugs occurred in the 20th century, but after Mark Blumenthal, founder and Managing Director of the American Botanical Council, it found renewed interest in the medical benefits of the natural foods - including those in the pills.

He says "Many of the old plants have modern features,".

"It gives up a lot of marketing to go for so-called functional foods - foods with high levels of antioxidants, to improve the cardiovascular system or reduce the risk of cancer."

"Hibiscus tea is becoming increasingly popular and research shows that blood pressure lowers you." "Garlic and to some degree onions, continue to have heart cardiovascular benefits and reduce the build-up of plaque."

But Prof Touwaide says the traditional cures based on plants and minerals are in danger, forget.

He says the problem is that too few people study now classical Greek, Latin or Arabic and there are not enough experts to interpret the original texts.

Prof Touwaide is in 12 languages dominate and spent years collecting 15,000 books about plants and their uses his or her library.

He believes that such know old as part of the UNESCO world natural heritage should be protected.

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