Apollo 11 astronauts honoured

The three Apollo 11 astronauts have been welcomed to the White House by Barack Obama on the 40th anniversary of their historic moon landing.The US President has joined the world in celebrating their achievements."Very rarely do i have such an extraordinary pleasure as I have today, to welcome three iconic figures, three genuine American heroes," he said."To have Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin here beside me is just wonderful."In 1969, the trio made space history with the first successful mission to the moon, and Mr Obama says he was among those whose imagination was captured by the Apollo missions."I still recall sitting on my grandfather's shoulders when those capsules would land in the middle of the Pacific, and they'd get brought back and we'd go out and we'd pretend like they could see us as we were waving at folks coming home," he said.The first man to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong, credits the so-called 'space race' with diverting the United States and the Soviet Union from war."It was an exceptional national investment for both sides," he said.The lunar landings ended in 1972 and two of the Apollo team want america to go even further, with Michael Collins calling on Washington to pour money into bolder adventures."I'd like to see Mars become the focus, just as John F Kennedy focused on the moon," he said.A push echoed by Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, the showman of the trio."America do you still dream great dreams? Do you still believe in yourself? Are you ready for a great national challenge?President Obama says he wants NASA to be there for the next generation of American children dreaming of space exploration.

Clinton strives for arms deal with New Delhi

The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, is in India for talks to negotiate a defence pact to boost the sale of US arms to the subcontinent. Her visit should also see an agreement on the location of two nuclear reactors to be built by the US. Also on the agenda is climate change - a sensitive subject between the two countries.

The talks are aimed at deepening strategic US ties with India, an emerging player on the world stage. As part of her five-day tour, Clinton will meet with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Foreign Minister SM Krishna.

Washington is also hopeful of sealing a key accord on "end-use monitoring" that would provide safeguards for the sale of highly sophisticated US weaponry.
India is expected to announce proposed sites for the building of two multi-billion dollar US nuclear power plants. This comes after last year’s landmark civilian nuclear deal reached with India by former US president George W. Bush.

The civilian and military nuclear capabilities had to be separated, however, according to Marie Lall, South Asia specialist at the University of London. She told RFI that the deal is palatable to India because civilian nuclear facilities would be inspected by the UN watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), but military bases would not be.

"Many people in the Obama administration were against the civilian nuclear deal because they said, 'how are we ever going to check that there is not going to be this transfer of technology from criminal to military bases?'," said Lall.

Bill Gates Quotes

Bill Gates Quotes 640K ought to be enough for anybody.

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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Bill Gates

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

Bill Gates

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Bill Gates

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

Bill Gates

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.

Bill Gates

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Bill Gates

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

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I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Bill Gates

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

Bill Gates

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

Bill Gates

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

Bill Gates

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Bill Gates

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Bill Gates

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Bill Gates

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

Bill Gates

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.Bill GatesIntellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Bill Gates

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Bill Gates

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Bill Gates

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Bill Gates

Life is not fair; get used to it.

Bill Gates

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

Bill Gates

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

Bill Gates

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Bill Gates

People everywhere love Windows.

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Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

Bill Gates

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

Bill Gates

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Bill Gates

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Bill Gates

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Bill Gates

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Bill Gates

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.Bill GatesThe U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

Bill Gates

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

Bill Gates

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Bill Gates

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Bill Gates

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Bill Gates

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Bill Gates

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.Bill GatesWhen the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

Bill Gates

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

Bill Gates

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Bill Gates

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

Bill Gates

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.

Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates

Bin Laden's son dumped by first wife for marrying Brit granny

Bin Laden's son dumped by first wife for marrying Brit granny
Bin Laden's son dumped by first wife for marrying Brit granny London August 4 Osama bin Laden's fourth son Omar has been dumped by his Saudi wife for marrying an English grandmother, a British tabloid reported here today.Rasha bin Laden, who is in her 20s and lived with her 27-year-old husband along their two-year-old son at Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, has vowed never to return to Omar until he leaves 51-year-old Jane Felix-Browne, 'The Sun' reported. In fact, Omar's first wife Rasha is enraged by the publicity over her husband's second marriage to the five-time British divorcee."Rasha feels left out. Jane's always in the limelight -- the papers in Saudi Arabia are full of stories about her marriage to Omar. Rasha's made it clear she won't return unless things change," a source was quoted as saying.Though Saudi law permits a man to have more than one wife, the unnamed source said, "Rasha feels humiliated. But Omar refuses to give up Jane so the marriage looks doomed." "I was told by my family that they do not approve of the marriage and there will be consequences. But I love my second wife and am not going to divorce her. I am going to struggle along with her and this will all settle down," Omar had earlier said.When contacted, the 51-year-old daughter-in-law of Osama bin Laden who is still trying to acquire a visa to visit her latest hubby in Saudi Arabia, told the tabloid that she did not want to comment on Omar's troubled first marriage.Omar, who runs a scrap-metal business in Jeddah, recently married his besotted bride in an Islamic ceremony at a friend's house in Cairo with just two of his relatives as witnesses, following a whirlwind romance which began in Egypt last September when he spotted Felix-Brown riding a horse near the Great Pyramid.

britney spears vs paparazzi

britney spears vs paparazzi
World Updates Wednesday August 1, 2007Britney Spears accused of threatening to kill paparazzi outside Las Vegas spaLAS VEGAS (AP) - Britney Spears threw a baby bottle and threatened two photographers after they took pictures of her leaving a Las Vegas spa, the photographers said in a statement. Spears yelled "I am going to kill you!'' and cursed at Andrew Deetz, a photographer who says he was beaten by Spears' bodyguard on Thursday, according to a statement released Tuesday by Deetz's lawyers. Deetz, 24, is preparing to sue, his lawyers said. The other photographer involved was Kyle Henderson, 23. They both work for a celebrity photography company called Flynet Pictures, which sells to such publications as People and US Weekly, according to Daniel Kogan, a spokesman for Deetz's lawyers. The men were taking pictures of Spears, 25, as she and her children _ 22-month-old Sean Preston Federline and 10-month-old Jayden James Federline _ left the spa at the Wynn Las Vegas casino-hotel around 11:30 a.m., accompanied by two bodyguards. One bodyguard, Cesar Julio Camera, 37, pushed Henderson against the wall until Wynn security intervened and asked Henderson to leave, the statement said. As they were about 30 paces away and walking in the opposite direction, Camera attacked Deetz from behind, threw him on the ground and punched and kicked him until security pulled him off, it said. Afterward, Spears ran toward Henderson but was stopped by security, and then threw a baby bottle at him, it said. Then, in front of several other hotel guests and bystanders, Spears threatened to kill Deetz and said he should get a restraining order against her because she was going to kill him or hire someone that would, it said. Camera also told Deetz on July 23 outside the Lisa Kline boutique in Beverly Hills, "I have unfinished business with you,'' the statement alleged. Spears' lawyer Gary Stiffelman declined to comment. Wynn Las Vegas released a statement confirming that Spears stayed at the hotel and left on Thursday, but also declined to discuss the confrontation. "We respect the privacy and do our utmost to maintain the anonymity of our guests,'' it said. Las Vegas police issued a summons for a charge of battery to Camera, the only person cited. He could face up to six months in county jail and a $1,000 (euro730) fine if convicted. Stiffelman's office would not relay messages to Camera seeking comment, and The Associated Press was unable to find a phone number for him. - AP

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Swimsuit Fashion in Florida

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To the Moon

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12 Sex Never Evers

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