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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Charlotte Star.com http://www.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/10/id/2411cd3571b4f088/ en-us Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:18:14 -0400 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:18:14 -0400 30 NATO should take a strong line with Russia over its use of force in the conflict with Georgia, but that strong line should not imperil NATO-Russia dialogue, the alliance's foreign ministers said at an emergency meeting in Brussels Tuesday. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396282/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00:27 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396282/cs/1/ Jordan and China Tuesday signed an agreement for cooperating in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, mainly in electricity generation and water desalination, an official statement said. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396510/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:00:51 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396510/cs/1/ Hollywood actor Danny Glover has alleged that Hollywood studio bosses are racist after he failed to secure financial aid for a biopic of revolutionary Haitian leader Toussaint L'Ouverture. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396508/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:00:41 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396508/cs/1/ Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise is reportedly set to become a superhero in an adaptation of comic book classic 'Sleeper'. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396506/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:00:34 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396506/cs/1/ A stolen 1933 painting by the legendary Spanish painter Pablo Picasso was found abandoned by the Brazilian police here, Spain's EFE news agency reported Tuesday. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396503/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:00:27 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396503/cs/1/ NATO and the European Union (EU) strongly condemned Tuesday's suicide bomb attack against a police academy in Algeria that left at least 43 people dead. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396502/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:00:22 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396502/cs/1/ Tbilisi/Russia and Georgia exchanged prisoners Tuesday as Russian troops slowly began pulling out of the conflict region in Georgia. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396500/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:00:02 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396500/cs/1/ The leaders of Pakistan's ruling coalition Tuesday failed to agree on a consensus candidate to succeed Pervez Musharraf as president, to provide him indemnity and to work out the modalities of restoring the judges who were sacked after an emergency was declared last year. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396492/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:00:17 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396492/cs/1/ Argentina's Sergio Aguero scored twice and Juan Riquelme converted from the penalty spot as the defending champions beat arch-rivals Brazil 3-0 Tuesday to book their place in the final of the Olympic football tournament. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396489/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:00:05 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396489/cs/1/ The US media Tuesday warned of the dangers posed by the added uncertainty caused by Pervez Musharraf's resignation as Pakistan president to US efforts against Al Qaeda with one daily raising the spectre of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396482/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:01:01 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396482/cs/1/ At least 23 people, including two policemen, were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a hospital in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province (NWFP), officials said. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396479/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:00:48 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396479/cs/1/ A senior US official's reported remark that former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf was free to go wherever he wants has set off speculation about his new home. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396474/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:00:29 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396474/cs/1/ Dhaka, Aug 19 (Xinhua) At least five people were killed and 16 injured Tuesday in a head-on collision between a night coach and a truck in Bangladesh's northwestern Rangpur district, a media report said. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396472/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:00:17 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396472/cs/1/ Pop star Madonna was left disappointed after her 50th birthday celebrations when several of her guests failed to turn up. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396468/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:00:04 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396468/cs/1/ Paddler Achanta Sharath Kamal was the only saving grace for India after a disastrous show by long jumper Anju Bobby George at the Olympic Games here Tuesday. But the numerous fans back home would be more interested in the action in the ring Wednesday, with two boxers both a bout away from a medal. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396467/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:00:55 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396467/cs/1/ Lusaka, Aug 19 (Xinhua) Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has died in the Percy Military Hospital in Paris after being hospitalised there for more than a month, Vice President Rupiah Banda said Tuesday. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396464/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:00:49 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396464/cs/1/ Military observers of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will be deployed in Georgia starting this week, after Georgia and Russia reached a compromise and the organisation approved the mission Tuesday. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396446/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:00:14 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396446/cs/1/ The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) Federal National Council (FNC) has a sent a copy of its statement over the recent Iranian action of setting up offices in UAE's Abu Mousa island to the Arab Parliament Union (APU). http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396433/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:00:38 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396433/cs/1/ Tehran, Aug 19 (Xinhua) Iran has asked its energy companies to look for potential sites to set up more nuclear power plants in the country, a senior official said. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396427/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:00:26 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396427/cs/1/ Ten NATO-led French soldiers were killed Tuesday morning in a clash with Taliban militants east of Kabul, officials said. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396378/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:00:33 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396378/cs/1/ The Olympic Games have sent the sales of snacks soaring in China. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396374/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:00:21 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396374/cs/1/ The concluding ceremony of the Olympic Games Sunday will be performed unrehearsed unlike its spectacular opening ceremony which was repeatedly rehearsed at the National Stadium. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396373/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:00:15 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396373/cs/1/ The Olympic Village in Beijing besides being an athlete's compound is also a place where the players can get to know Chinese culture. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396371/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:00:06 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396371/cs/1/ The Indian government has offered scholarships to 41 Sri Lankan government schoolteachers to undergo a special English training course at the reputed English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) in Hyderabad. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396362/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:01:21 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396362/cs/1/ Vijender Kumar and Jitender Kumar, who present the new face of Indian boxing, and possibly sport, get into the ring for their quarter-finals Wednesday. And that may be India's last and best chance of a second - and maybe even a third - Olympic medal after a series of disappointments over the past few days. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396359/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:01:09 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396359/cs/1/ The overwhelming success of the Indian Premier League has made the Australian Football League (AFL) turn to India for all the right reasons. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396353/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:00:55 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396353/cs/1/ Nepal's Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda', who was sworn in as the republic's first prime minister Monday, faced his first crisis within 24 hours as floods ravaged the border area, leaving over 35,000 people homeless. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396350/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:00:42 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396350/cs/1/ Zimbabwe's inflation rate reached a new high of 11.2 million percent in June, state media reported, quoting figures from the central statistics office. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396336/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:01:09 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396336/cs/1/ Algiers/At least 12 people, including 11 security officials, were killed when suspected Islamist terrorists attacked a military convoy near the coastal town of Skikda, 350 km east of Algiers, French radio reported Tuesday. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396326/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:00:48 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396326/cs/1/ Bahrain has commissioned leading American provider of credit information on businesses and corporations Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) to conduct a detailed study of the Gulf nation's small and medium enterprises (SME) sector. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396323/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:00:34 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396323/cs/1/ A cell of young Pakistani-origin men found guilty of terror offences may have been plotting to attack the queen and other members of the British royal family, a newspaper reported Tuesday. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396321/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:00:22 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396321/cs/1/ Singapore, Aug 19 (Xinhua) Navies from six Southeast Asian nations, together with the US Navy, are taking part in an annual anti-terror maritime exercise, Singapore's defence ministry said Tuesday. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396290/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00:33 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396290/cs/1/ At least 20 people were killed Tuesday when a bomb exploded in a hospital in Pakistan's northwest city of Dera Ismail Khan, an official said. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396285/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00:30 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396285/cs/1/ Researchers are examining 3-D imaging to reveal correlations in facial features and brain structures of autistic children, in a bid to develop a formula for the condition's earlier detection. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396275/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00:18 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396275/cs/1/ Officials and endangered families in Nepal's border villages are blaming India after heavy rains damaged a barrage and triggered floods that have destroyed thousands of homes and are feared to have killed at least five people. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396273/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00:15 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396273/cs/1/ Six suicide attackers were killed after a group of Taliban militants attacked a US military base in southeast Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan, officials said Tuesday. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396271/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00:09 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396271/cs/1/ Researchers have found that connecting teachers to a sound system can dramatically improve pupils' test results and reduce classroom disruption. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396267/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00:03 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396267/cs/1/ As you are on the verge of leaving the office after the day's work is done, three things happen within a few minutes. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396264/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:00:57 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396264/cs/1/ Pitted against an opponent he trains with and shares an apartment in Spain, Achanta Sharath Kamal rallied from a first game loss to beat Alfredo Carneros in the first round of the men's singles at the Olympic table tennis competition here Tuesday. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396262/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:00:54 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396262/cs/1/ A new clinical trial using a low-dose contraceptive may identify a more effective treatment for five to 10 percent of women who suffer from premenstrual dysphoric disorder. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396257/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:00:41 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396257/cs/1/ An Iraqi interpreter, who was recently granted asylum in Denmark but was asked to divorce one of his two wives, has opted to return to Iraq instead, reports said Tuesday. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396255/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:00:39 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396255/cs/1/ The winds of change that transformed the sleepy Himalayan kingdom of Nepal into a secular republic and turned its god-king into a tax-paying, law-abiding commoner, have now overtaken the nation's living goddesses, who have been ordered to go to school. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396253/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:00:37 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396253/cs/1/ Cambodia's mushrooming media outlets and a crisis of advertising revenue has claimed the English-language Mekong Times daily, the paper's editor said Tuesday. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396243/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:00:15 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396243/cs/1/ Thousands of Thai protesters marched on the British embassy here Tuesday to demand that Britain refuse asylum to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife, Pojaman, who fled to London last week to escape pending corruption cases against them. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396237/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:02:00 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396237/cs/1/ The closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics may not be as eagerly anticipated as the lavish opening ceremony, but details revealed Tuesday suggest it could be another spectacular performance. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396236/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:01:57 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396236/cs/1/ Cheaper alternatives like ultrasound imaging can help identify those at high risk for a heart attack or other cardiovascular conditions, according to a study. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396235/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:01:54 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396235/cs/1/ India's Achanta Sharath Kamal made things a little difficult for himself before beating his Spanish clubmate Alfredo Carneros in the first round of the Olympic table tennis competition at the Peking University Gymnasium here Tuesday. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396230/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:01:49 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396230/cs/1/ A fifth of HIV patients are particularly vulnerable to brain damage like dementia and other disorders when the lethal virus manages to slip out of the bloodstream and cross into the brain. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396226/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:01:43 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396226/cs/1/ Indian-American urologic surgeon Ashok Hemal and colleagues have performed more robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery to repair abnormal openings between the bladder and vagina known as fistulas than any other team in the world. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396212/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:01:16 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396212/cs/1/ Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan is to join Indian-origin MP Keith Vaz this week to open the new premises of a diabetes charity in Leicester. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396206/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:01:03 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396206/cs/1/ British reality TV star Jade Goody, who came to India to participate in the second season of Indian show 'Bigg Boss', has been detected with cancer and will now leave the series. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396202/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:00:55 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396202/cs/1/ A premature baby girl who had caused shock in Israel when she suddenly showed signs of life after spending more than five hours in a morgue cooler died early Tuesday in the northern Israeli hospital where she was born, Israel Radio reported. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396200/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:00:51 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396200/cs/1/ The lack of support from the Pakistani Army proved to be the last straw for Pervez Musharraf and prompted him to step down as president, a media report said Tuesday. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396198/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:00:46 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396198/cs/1/ The Olympics are sexy. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396197/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:00:38 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396197/cs/1/ Venezuelan troops seized a cement plant owned by Mexico's Cemex SAB after a deal to nationalise the firm failed. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396195/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:00:31 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396195/cs/1/ The Nepalese Supreme Court has asked the government to guarantee basic child rights to the 'living goddesses,' known as Kumari, who play a key role in the country's Hindu-Buddhist traditions, media reports said Tuesday. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396193/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:00:27 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396193/cs/1/ A regional conference on commodity development will be held here this month against a backdrop of a severe food crisis and unprecedented inflation globally. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396187/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:00:04 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396187/cs/1/ Jakarta, Aug 19 (Xinhua) A moderate quake with magnitude of 5.4 struck easternmost of Indonesia Tuesday, the Indonesian Meteorology Agency said here. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396175/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:00:07 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396175/cs/1/ A beneficial bacteria, which wild rock lobster larvae host naturally, could help their farmed cousins ward off infections and remove a large barrier to commercial production. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396173/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:00:04 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396173/cs/1/ Upcoming Welsh singer Duffy is scared that people back in her hometown might think that success has changed her. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396167/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:01:16 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396167/cs/1/ Dubai, Aug 19 (IANS) In order to make taxis available more easily, transport authorities have launched a new initiative to create taxi ranks in various parts of this west Asian metropolis. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396166/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:01:13 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396166/cs/1/ Troubled pop star Britney Spears, who is making an impressive comeback professionally, has got herself a new look and she might have found a new man in her life too. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396164/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:01:10 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396164/cs/1/ Actress Lindsay Lohan and her rumoured same-sex partner Samantha Ronson were spotted hugging and getting intimate in Hollywood recently. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396162/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:01:03 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396162/cs/1/ The Philippine military Tuesday vowed to take 'aggressive actions' against Muslim separatist rebels who killed 49 people in a deadly rampage that also displaced more than 36,000 residents in southern provinces. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396161/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:00:59 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396161/cs/1/ Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama considers himself a 'desi' who is an expert at cooking dal and other ethnic dishes, though he isn't that good at making naan, the Indian bread. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396159/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:00:53 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396159/cs/1/ Extracting shark DNA posed problems, not the least of which was carrying out biopsies on live and rather uncooperative specimens. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396158/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:00:51 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396158/cs/1/ A new rocky object similar to a comet and known as a minor planet has been discovered in the solar system some 3.2 billion km from Earth and could provide clues about the formation of comets, scientists have said. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396150/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:00:41 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396150/cs/1/ Tropical storm Fay has struck the Florida Keys and was expected to take a path across the southern US state after leaving more than 50 people dead on the Caribbean island nation of Haiti. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396147/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:00:38 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396147/cs/1/ An obscure fungus in the gut of Asian longhorned beetles, which helps the insect munch through the hardest of woods, could help develop methods to control the pest and break down biomass for biofuel, according to a study. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396145/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:00:36 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396145/cs/1/ A Hong Kong cabbie bit off the fingertip of a drunk passenger who refused to clean up vomit from the taxi, a court report said Tuesday. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396143/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:00:34 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396143/cs/1/ Tasmanian cave glow-worms are energy conservationists, which switch off lights at night-time, according to a discovery made by Queensland University researcher. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396140/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:00:31 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396140/cs/1/ The European Union (EU) has said it hopes the future president of Pakistan and the government can work together on developing and strengthening democracy in Pakistan, respecting institutions and the rule of law, EuAsiaNews reported Tuesday. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396138/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:00:27 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396138/cs/1/ Some headlines were sarcastic, some frankly scornful and others attempted to look ahead as Pakistan's papers Monday devoted reams of newsprint to the dramatic resignation of Pervez Musharraf as president after nine years. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396134/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:00:11 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396134/cs/1/ Moscow, Aug 19 (Xinhua) A Russian Proton-M rocket Tuesday sent a US telecommunications satellite, the Inmarsat-4 F3, into Earth orbit, a spokesman for a Moscow-based producer of space launch systems said. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396238/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:02:03 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396238/cs/1/ Had George Bush's presidency not already entered its lame duck months, the less than flattering departure of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf so close to the time when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took off his gloves would have dealt a staggering personal blow to the US president. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396179/cs/1/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:00:17 -0400 Charlotte Star.com http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/396179/cs/1/ The pullback to Russian territory through the breakaway province of South Ossetia followed the exchange yesterday of prisoners between Georgia and Russia. Fifteen Georgians were exchanged for five Ru... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022186/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:48:30 -0400 The Australian http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022186/ The speed of the move surprised analysts, even though they had been tipping that Mr Gregg and Qantas executive general manager John Borghetti might leave after being pipped at the post for the chief e... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022193/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:48:50 -0400 The Australian http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022193/ The latest evidence is Australia's embrace of a pilot seasonal worker scheme under which up to 2500 visas will be issued for employees from four Pacific nations to work in the horticulture industry se... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022179/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:48:14 -0400 The Australian http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022179/ The officials said the injuries were a result of smoke inhalation and minor burns. Flames and clouds of smoke could be seen billowing from the three-storey building in central Cairo. State-run televis... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022199/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:49:09 -0400 The Australian http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022199/ Campaign trail takes Barack Obama, John McCain to home states of VP contenders Obama expected to announce his running mate this week Sources say McCain might announce August 29 http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022214/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:22:51 -0400 CNN http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022214/ PBL Media is the debt-laden company that now owns the Packer family's one-time flagship media assets, the Nine Network and ACP Magazines. ConsMedia reported a profit of $105 million yesterday for the... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022191/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:48:41 -0400 The Australian http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022191/ Istanbul: At least six police officers were injured when a suicide bomber detonated explosives in his car in the southern Turkish province of Mersin on Tuesday,Turkish broadcasters reported. Televisio... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17023600/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:30:36 -0400 Gulf News http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17023600/ Former Queensland Liberal president Mal Brough planned to sack state party director Geoffrey Greene last month over debts incurred by the campaign to win control of the Gold Coast City Council in a Ma... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022180/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:48:19 -0400 The Australian http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022180/ Jack Cafferty: McCain gives shallow answers at Saddleback forum Why isn't McCain grappling with the complex moral issues we face? Cafferty asks Cafferty: We can't afford another president like George ... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022212/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:22:47 -0400 CNN http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022212/ MARGARET Gardner will serve as vice-chancellor of RMIT University until 2015 following the extension of her contract. The seven-year extension comes barely three years after she took up the appointmen... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022188/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:48:33 -0400 The Australian http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022188/ "It's a pride thing," Starr County Emergency Management Coordinator Gene Falcon said. Many people preferred to stay at their flooded homes to keep an eye on their property, he said. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022211/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:22:45 -0400 CNN http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022211/ You have to pity the authors of bestselling books. Not only do they have to labour over the original works, aided by a mere ghostwriter or two, but then they have to spend hours of interminable boredo... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17023599/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:28:25 -0400 The Guardian http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17023599/ ban Russian citizens from a shopping assault on Selfridges. Oh, dear. Thank goodness my brother has gone, carrying his Austin Reed bags to Moscow. I wonder what comes next: a Conservative proposal to ... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17023602/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:28:16 -0400 The Guardian http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17023602/ However, Russian soldiers took Georgian servicemen prisoner in Poti on the Black Sea and commandeered the U.S. Humvees. An Associated Press photographer saw Russian trucks and armored personnel carrie... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17023571/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:45:02 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17023571/ Surveillance video shows man attacking elderly woman on elevator Woman robbed of $900 after being placed in choke hold Police look for link to similar muggings this summer in Brooklyn, New York http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022210/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:22:42 -0400 CNN http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022210/ EMBATTLED Babcock & Brown plunged another 23.5 per cent yesterday as investors panicked and dumped the stock, hedge funds triggered margin calls on staff shares and speculation mounted that CEO Ph... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022195/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:48:55 -0400 The Australian http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022195/ WASHINGTON — If conventional wisdom proves to be, for once, correct, neither Barack Obama nor John McCain will announce his vice-presidential nominee until just before or during the Democratic an... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17023609/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:27:52 -0400 Globe and Mail http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17023609/ "There's certainly some concerns (about UNE governance), and of course that university is vitally important as a driver of that (New England) community," said Liberal MLC Robyn Parker, a for... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022189/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:48:37 -0400 The Australian http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022189/ Prius . Diesels are inherently more efficient than gasoline engines and can squeeze 30% or more miles out of every gallon burned. And unlike the smoky numbers of the 1970s, today's diesels are quie... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17023596/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:13:26 -0400 Newsday http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17023596/ newspaper that the 11 hikers could have been swept downstream or could have already left the region.Authorities from the US National Park Service and the bureau were combing the creek where a muddy, r... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022197/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:49:01 -0400 The Australian http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022197/ Manchester Airport is trialling the new facial recognition scanners, which aim to improve security and reduce long queues at immigration checkpoints. The device works by comparing a digital photo of a... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022196/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:48:58 -0400 The Australian http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022196/ MOSCOW – Russia's navy said on Tuesday it had cancelled a September visit by a United States Navy frigate to a port in Russia's Far Eastern region of Kamchatka. 'At the present time it is not... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17023211/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:44:59 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17023211/ Speculation intensified yesterday that Senator Obama was preparing to announce his choice tonight - and the first to know his decision were going to be his supporters via the internet. The Democratic... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022181/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:48:24 -0400 The Australian http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022181/ Last February, Speedo unveiled the LZR Racer competition swimsuit The company teamed with fashionista Rei Kawakubo to design the suit The LZR was the same suit Michael Phelps wore in his historic Beij... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022209/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:22:41 -0400 CNN http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17022209/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Speculation on the U.S. vice presidential sweepstakes hit fever pitch on Tuesday, with Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain nearing their choices of a No. 2 amid sly... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17023613/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:09:18 -0400 Reuters http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/17023613/