Archive for December, 2009

Three Labradors die in house fire

More than 60 firefighters have a fire in a house on the border between Hampshire and Dorset, where three Labradors are dead tackled.
The crews of the two circles by calls for two-storey house in the village near Bliss Ford Fordingbridge on Monday morning.
A couple, married, sits in the gutter of the operation of the property while the owners are abroad at the time.
A dog was rescued by the fourth of the building by two passers-by.
The animal was taken to a veterinary clinic observation in Fordingbridge.
Two dogs killed one of the owners of the house, said that in Canada, a spokesman for the fire department.
The third dog belonged to the house-sitter, care for the land, on an annual basis.
The fire started in the basement of the building before the victory on the first floor of the building and the roof.
The fire service said the property was well lit when the teams left, and came up a factory to the kitchen.
Group Manager, Dan Tasker, Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service, said: Without the quick response of firefighters at the scene, there is no doubt that the house was completely destroyed.
The fire was quickly extinguished, which has meant the most damage to the house is only cosmetic.
Of course we are saddened by the loss of three dogs, and we will carefully examine the causes of the fire. The fire is not considered suspicious.
Firefighters remain in force for moderation hot spots that prevent re-ignited fires.

‘Peacemaker’ dies after trying to break up street fight

A man died after being injured while trying to break passed by a battle between two groups, which called them, police said.
David Joslin, 23, was Sunday in the early hours of the morning, December 20 at Chingford Mount Road, East London attack.
The passer has a wide range of interested end jewelry store in the neighborhood.
Mr. Joslin, who was at a Christmas party for the project has not been thought, said one of the groups, the Metropolitan Police (Met) was.
A group has obelisk near the pub before it was a battle on the road with three men and one woman.
Mr. Joslin was injured when he tried to intervene.
It was originally Whipps Cross Hospital, then at the National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen Square, London.
Never regained consciousness and died Dec. 27.
Witnesses said that David tried to intervene as a peacemaker, but was beaten and unconscious on the ground, spokesman Met.
Incident room has been created but has not been any arrests and post mortem examination was held Monday in the mortuary East Ham.
Det Insp John MacDonald, who is leading the investigation, said police had several people were talking in pubs, but no one was in the second group came along.
I am sure that the local population, and closed circuit television will gather today in stores I am sure we can find, he said.
It is clear from the flowers left at the scene that David died, and his group of other people know that now, he added.

Met Police face shortfall over uninsured car campaign

The Metropolitan Police has a hole of 1.3 in the budget after a failed action against uninsured vehicles to reach their goals.
Operation Reclaim was launched first in London parties in 2005, extending the powers of officials to remove uninsured vehicles in the capital.
But new data show that the police expect 36,000 vehicles use in April, 24,000 fewer than initially planned.
The Met expects a deficit of 1.3 million in fines and costs 3.2 million are expected to gather.
The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA), said the project would tear crime, unsightly and polluting traffic and the growing power of finance.
Two decades of neglect have this problem, a culture of lawlessness has led to the streets where drivers are very far from London felt the uninsured and away with him, said MPA member Jenny Jones.
It’s shocking to think that in some areas of London in four traffic accidents, which includes damage to a hit-and-run driver, so I think it’s great the police in most areas of London finally at the top problem. However, he acknowledged that the governors of the community still do not see the clear link between the driving security and general crime.
A Met Police spokesman said: By the end of this year waiting to be insured 36,000 vehicles were seized.
This will create approximately 2m of revenue to disrupt crime and improve road safety. We consider this a success.

UK soldier killed in Afghanistan explosion

A British soldier was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan has confirmed the Department of Defense.
The soldier, 3 Battalion, The Rifles, was during a patrol in the Kajaki area of Helmand Province on Monday afternoon killed.
Relatives have been informed of his death, thus the number of British soldiers killed in the conflict since 2001 until 244th
A spokesman said: Their courage and their sacrifice not be forgotten. Started from the 244 deaths since the war, only 107 have occurred in 2009.
During Christmas time the troops were there one hours free calls at home, at the top of their normal weekly amount of 30 minutes.
However, in order on Christmas Day in Afghanistan, many soldiers saw their regular patrols of the line.
Meanwhile, the bodies of three soldiers in Afghanistan has been killed – two suspects in the fire friend incident – back to Britain on Tuesday.
L / Cpl Michael Pritchard, 22, 4 Regiment Royal Military Police, was killed as a result of arms , 20 December in Sangin.
L / Cpl Christopher Roney, 23, of 3 Battalion, The Rifles, died of injuries in a shooting in the vicinity of Sangin, 21 December preserved.
Both deaths are under investigation and the Department of Defense (MoD) said no final conclusion will be established after investigation of man.
The third body was to be transported to RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire, is the special forces soldier L / Cpl Tommy Brown, the Parachute Regiment. He died of a suspected explosive Theorem 22 December in Sangin.
A private ceremony will be in the chapel of the RAF before moving place in the village of Wootton Bassett.

Condoms ‘too big’ for Indian men

A survey of over 1,000 people in India has concluded that condoms, according to international sizes are too big for most Indian men.
The study showed that more than half of men with penises measured was below international standards for condoms.
There should be a call for condoms of different sizes led to a greater extent in India.
The two years studies conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research carried out.
More than 1,200 volunteers from the length and breadth of the country had the penis can be accurately measured in the last millimeter.
Scientists have found their sample was representative for the whole of Germany in terms of class, religion and urban and rural populations.
The conclusion of all these scientific efforts is that about 60% of Indian men’s penises, which are used in three and five centimeters shorter than international standards for condom production.
Doctor Chander Puri, an expert in the field of reproductive health at the Indian Council of Medical Research, told the BBC, is an obvious need in India for custom condoms, as most currently for sale are very high.
The question is, given that one of every five times a condom in India is either dropped or tears, a very high failure rate used in earnest.
And the country has the highest number of HIV infections of any nation.
Mr. Puri said that since Indians would go into a pharmacy to ask for smaller condoms, ashamed of having to provide vending machines of various sizes around the country.
Smaller condoms are on sale in India. But there is a lack of awareness that different sizes are available. It is the fear comes with the question. And normally one feels shy to go to the pharmacy and ask for a condom size smaller.

Somali pirates hijack UK tanker in Gulf of Aden

Somali pirates have hijacked a UK-flagged chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden, officials say.
The St James Park was captured on Monday while on its way to Thailand from Spain, said the Kenya-based Seafarers Assistance Programme.
Its 26 crew hail from Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Georgia, India, Turkey and the Philippines.
Pirate attacks have been common off the Somali coast and international navies have been deployed to counter them.
The St James Park had issued a distress call on Monday night saying it had been attacked by pirates, said the International Maritime Bureau.
The tanker, which was carrying a cargo of chemicals used to make plastics, had changed course and was now heading towards the northern coast of Somalia, said Andrew Mwangura of the Seafarers Assistance Programme.
“It is expected to arrive there later this evening,” Mr Mwangura told AFP news agency.
The waters around Somalia are among the most dangerous in the world.
Correspondents say the upsurge in piracy in the region is a consequence of the failure to find a solution to Somalia’s continuing political disarray.

Avatar tops Christmas box office in US and Canada

Avatar has a locker, a Christmas weekend record for the top theaters in the U.S. and Canada.
The estimated $ 278m (174m) in ticket sales weekend broke the previous record of $ 253 million (Duplex 158m) in July 2008, The Dark Knight was released over the weekend.
Sci-fi epic, Avatar took $ 75m (47m) in the second weekend, according to initial estimates of study.
Sherlock Holmes, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel complicated and has strong debut.
Within 10 days of the redundancy the avatar of $ 212 million (132.6m) in the U.S. and around the world could be in the way of extrapolation over $ 1 billion (625.6m).
This is going to play and play, I can tell you that, said Bert Livingston, 20th Century Fox distribution executive.
There are many activities. We all got out of good movies. Sherlock Holmes, who was Robert Downey Jr., who stars as Detective Arthur Conan Doyle, second weekend with a total of $ 65.4m (41.m) with $ 24.9m (15.6 million) for Christmas alone.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, which opened on Wednesday was held in $ 50.2m (31.4 million) for the weekend and $ 77.1 million U.S. (48.2 million) in five days of release.
It is complicated, a triangular love story comedy with Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, opened in fourth place with $ 22.1 (13.8) of income.
In fifth place with $ 11.8 million U.S. (7.26M) was in the air with George Clooney in the critically acclaimed history of the company reduced its role in matters of life.
It’s a very fitting end for the longest period in person, ever, said Paul Dergarabedian, box office analyst Hollywood.com.
It was a total rollercoaster ride. It is as if the public is on board.

Nigeria police in deadly clash with sect in Bauchi

At least 38 people have died in clashes between security forces and members of a religious sect in the northern Nigerian state of Bauchi.
The dead were mainly from a group calling itself Kala Kato. Two soldiers and a policeman were also killed.
The fighting came after local people told authorities they were alarmed by open-air preaching by sect members.
Such preaching was banned in the state after an uprising by another sect, Boko Haram, earlier this year.
Hundreds of people were killed in the subsequent fighting across northern Nigeria.
The BBC’s Caroline Duffield reports from Lagos that Kala Kato is a non-conformist Muslim sect made up of poor tradesmen, labourers and other working people.
Some residents in Zango, just south of the city of Bauchi, have said that in recent days the mood of their preaching had become aggressive.
The violence there began on Sunday morning. After some initial shooting the security forces retreated, before returning in greater numbers.
Members of the group had armed themselves with machetes and cutlasses, and appeared ready to fight armed police and soldiers, she adds.
A spokesman for the Bauchi state governor said the local military had been deployed, though other accounts spoke of a feared police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
The Associated Press news agency cited Bauchi state official Mohammed Maigari as saying sect members had gone on the rampage to demand the release of their leader.
The sect leader had been arrested in connection with the killings of several Boko Haram members, AP reported.

Netanyahu and Mubarak to discuss peace process in Cairo

Israeli Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will meet in Cairo to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Palestinians refuse to resume negotiations until Israel halt all construction of settlements in the West Bank.
A former Israeli peace negotiator, said Israel and the United States are close to beginning the talks.
The visit takes place in Egypt tried to negotiate the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
A frenetic activity in recent years has been speculation that progress in the efforts for a prisoner exchange agreement should be made to do so.
Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic movement that controls Gaza, Israel wants hundreds of prisoners in exchange for the freedom of Sgt release of Shalit.
The group said a German mediator visited Gaza last week the last line of Israel.
A Hamas delegation from Gaza went to Damascus to meet with the direction of movement in exile, on Wednesday to become Hamas officials told the news agency Reuters.
Mr. Netanyahu said Monday that Israel would move forward and advance the negotiations in the near future.
Israel says ready to negotiate not met.
It was the Palestinian demand for a full cessation of settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which it occupied in 1967 during the Arab-Israeli war rejected.
But limited to 10 months for construction in the West Bank, excluding East Jerusalem – which Palestinians want as their future capital.
Yossi Beilin, former Minister of the left wing who played a key role in the Oslo peace process of 1993, said Sunday that Benjamin Netanyahu is close to an agreement that the peace talks based on the country has been occupied by Israel in 1967.
These include a real, though indirect participation of Netanyahu, the Palestinian demands to negotiate on the 1967 borders, Mr Beilin told AFP.
He also said that Netanyahu was willing to demand that peace talks should be limited to two years to accept.
The Office of the Prime Minister said Mr. Beilin said, for anyone other than himself.
The Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Monday talks on new ways to focus on peace efforts.
He has already said that Egypt considers that the peace talks must be either a complete freeze on settlement activity , or unambiguous guarantee of a Palestinian state should be based on the 1967 borders, including Jerusalem. Over half a million Israelis living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories since 1967 to claim a future state.
The settlements are illegal under international law.

Obama says US will pursue plane bomb plotters

President Barack Obama has pledged his administration “will not rest” until all those behind an alleged plot to bomb a US plane are brought to justice.
In his first public comments on last Friday’s incident, Mr Obama said he had ordered two reviews – of US terrorism databases and air travel screening.
The accused, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, had a visa and was allowed to fly despite being on a watch-list.
Mr Obama spoke after it emerged a wing of al-Qaeda had claimed the plot.
The US president said only the “quick and heroic actions” of passengers and crew had averted disaster.
The 23-year-old accused, who is being held at a prison in the US state of Michigan, was restrained while allegedly trying to detonate a high-explosive device sewn in to his underwear.
Mr Abdulmutallab is charged with attempting to blow up the Northwest Airlines Airbus A330 from Amsterdam, which had nearly 300 people on board, as it made its final descent to Detroit.
He has reportedly told FBI investigators that there are others just like him in Yemen who will strike soon.
Officials are said to be concerned there may be more al-Qaeda-trained young men in the country planning to bring down US planes, the BBC’s Imtiaz Tyab reports from Washington.
Mr Obama, speaking at a military base in Hawaii where he has been on holiday with his family, said: “We will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable.”
Mr Obama said his administration had already taken steps to improve security, including extra air marshals and enhanced screening at airports.
Mr Obama said the people of America would not give in to fear, but added that its citizens should be vigilant.
He added: “Those who would slaughter innocent men, women and children must know the United States will do more than simply strengthen our defences.
“We will continue to use every element of our national power to disrupt, to dismantle and defeat the violent extremists.”
US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Monday airport systems had failed, and that a much-criticised earlier remark of hers that security had worked was taken out of context.
Shortly before Mr Obama spoke, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the plot.