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</a> "I believe that Mullah Baradar is key to Afghan peace, because there was so much in common between Mullah Omar and Mullah Baradar," said Haji Agha Lalai, an influential tribesman in southern Afghanistan. "The only person Mullah Omar won't ignore is Mullah Baradar, but first we need to know where he is, and what his intentions are regarding peace."
</a> The British Retail Consortium’s monthly survey showed total retail sales volumes grew 2.9% on the year in June. Same-store salesâ??which only includes stores in business for at least a yearâ??were 1.4% higher.
</a> "Our results suggest that regardless of socioeconomic status, chemicals accumulate in the body. ... Therefore, in the case of chemical burden, everyone needs to be considered, not just those living in poverty," she says.
</a> Maybe that is no surprise. Powell, a former 100-metres world record holder, two-time World Championships bronze medallist and relay gold medal winner at the Beijing Olympic Games, is, as he puts it, the “golden baby” of Jamaican sports. He is also, probably, the most loved among the locals – more so than Usain Bolt, despite his world records and Olympic gold medals.
</a> It remains a mystery how far Mohammed got with his designs or whether the plans still exist. The secret CIA prison in Romania was shuttered in early 2006 and Mohammed was transferred later that year to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base prison, where he remains. It's unlikely he was able to take his appliance plans to Cuba.
</a> The venture may also help rekindle Singapore's electronics sector by creating high-paying jobs in the satellites and components segment to replace jobs lost with the decline of disc media and computer parts manufacturing.
</a> "Discover FIGHTER WITHIN, the next-gen game that provides you the excitement of a real fight, throwing you into the most immersive total-body combat experience ever made," reads the game's blurb. "Enter a world of sweat, timing and training thanks to kick-ass motion recognition. Brawling with your friends will never feel the same again."
</a> The paper reported last week how a national group – The Campaign for Better Hospital Food – said its figures showed NHS hospitals routinely award themselves high ratings for the quality of their patient meals.
</a> The upstart company is targeting a niche in Brazil's marketexploited in recent years by broadband operator GVT SA, whichoffers specialized broadband services in regions and businesssegments underserved by bigger companies. GVT has expandedrapidly in markets not dominated by large phone companies,allowing it to charge slightly higher rates for Internetservices.
</a> At $49 billion, the eight-part deal is bigger than the threeprevious record-sized deals combined: Apple's $17 billion dealin April, AbbVie's US14.7 billion last November and RocheHoldings' $13.5 billion transaction in 2009. It is also largerthan the GDP of some 90 countries.
</a> "While Earth will be only about a pixel in size from Cassini's vantage point, ... the team is looking forward to giving the world a chance to see what their home looks like from Saturn," Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif, said in a statement.
</a> Customers want to believe their packages are in good hands with companies like FedEx or UPS, but a new video shows footage of New York City employee tossing some packages into the back of a delivery truck like they’re pizzas.
</a> The company, which has customers from Gloucestershire across London to the west of Essex and Kent, already has permission to push bills up by 1.4pc above inflation in 2014/15 but it wants to add a further 8pc increase and has taken the unusual step of asking for permission from the water industry regulator Ofwat.
</a> The World Health Organization advocates evidence-based measures including price increases, advertising bans, smoke-free policies and graphic warning images to curb tobacco use, and those policies were part of an anti-smoking law implemented in Taiwan in 2009.
</a> "We will not protect anyone who commits a crime involving public funds, which are sacred because they are the people's money. There are no untouchables here," Francisco Ameliach, the governor of Carabobo state and another member of the ruling party, told state media.
</a> On this week's Daily News Fifth Yankees Podcast, Mark Feinsand sits down with Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long to break down what has gone right for the Bombers' offense in recent weeks and what needs to happen for the Yankees to get to the postseason.
</a> Syrian opposition sources close to Saudi Arabia said Prince Bandar offered to buy up to $15 billion of Russian weapons as well as ensuring that Gulf gas would not threaten Russia's position as a main gas supplier to Europe.
</a> "I've spoken to [Manchester United manager] David Moyes and he understands that it is important for us to have Wayne with us and Wayne himself wants to be part of the England set-up coming into these important qualifying games.
</a> It is not the first time Hasan released documents to the Herald. He mailed a copy of a transcript of a conversation he had with an Al Jazeera reporter and authorized the release of a portion of his intended opening statement to a Herald reporter through his former civilian attorney, John Galligan.
</a> "I remain an optimist that notwithstanding politics, thatwhen something's so clearly in everybody's interests - includingour interests as Canadians and the national interest of theUnited States - I'm of the view that it has to be approved," hesaid.
</a> â??To tell you the truth I was actually kind of upset,â?? Torres said. â??I got the hit, I was happy about that, but I jammed myself. It just so happened they were playing infield in and it squeaked through.â??
</a> Price is emerging as a key battlefield, with Comcast, Cox and Time Warner Cable offering discounts if customers combine home security with other services. That puts the prices for home security at $30-$50 per month, slightly below what ADT charges for its new "Pulse" product.
</a> Cornerback Charles Tillman, like Briggs, did not play in the fourth quarter against Washington. He is considered "week to week," with swelling in his right knee but could be back for the next game ? against the Packers at Lambeau Field on Nov. 4.
</a> More than 6,000 people have been killed in violence across the country this year, according to monitoring group Iraq Body Count, reversing a decline in sectarian bloodshed that had climaxed in 2006-07.
</a> Facebook and Twitter were blocked by Beijing in mid-2009 following deadly riots in the western province of Xinjiang that authorities say were abetted by the social networking sites. The New York Times has been blocked since reporting last year that the family of then-Premier Wen Jiabao had amassed a huge fortune.
</a> As evidence mounts to support the positive effects of attending preschool on future school performance, some parents and educators have questioned whether in-school naptime should be replaced with more learning.
</a> Iâ??m beginning to feel the same way about the cash he used to purchase it. What if "Breaking Bad" is actually a magical fable about a man who makes a wish for a bag of money? The wish comes true, except the money is cursed. As long as the money remains in the manâ??s home town, it canâ??t be spent on anything anyone actually wants. But whenever anyone tries to take the money elsewhereâ??to a place where it can be put to useâ??that person dies.
</a> Niger, which ranks bottom in the world in U.N. humandevelopment index, deployed some 680 troops to neighbouring Malias part of a French-led military intervention that destroyed anIslamist enclave this year. The troops now form part of a U.N.peacekeeping mission as France winds down its presence.
</a> A study like this can’t prove that the disturbing ads prompted more people to quit. But the researchers argued that this is the most likely explanation. The smokers who saw the ads were more likely to make a quit attempt than the smokers who didn’t, they noted. Also, the nationwide quit rate had been pretty flat for three years before the campaign started. It would be quite a coincidence for some other factor to bump it up just as the ads came out.
</a> It said the National Security Agency archives the information and "queries the data, when strict standards are met" to detect communications between foreign terrorist organizations and their potential operatives in the United States, providing leads to the FBI or others in the intelligence community for counterterrorism purposes.
</a> Itâ??s madness now, and will surely only get worse. So, whatâ??s the solution here? Obviously, boycotting the iPhone 5S isnâ??t going to happen, so how about instead we all learn the forgotten virtue of patience? Letâ??s have a practice run with iOS 7. Donâ??t download it straight away, wait 24 hours or more for Appleâ??s servers to recover, then enjoy a seamless, fast upgrade.?
</a> But we should always examine what politicians do as opposed to what they say. These high-income males and females always marry each other, forming ‘Superfamilies’ that live in ‘Superzips’ and pour every last resource they have into their two or three children. These children will marry other children of the Superfamilies. On the other hand, if lower income groups do have children before marrying it does increase their chance of splitting up substantially. This splits the resources (both financial and emotional) available to their children and the gap between the children of the haves and the have-nots continues to grow.
</a> But shifting political allegiances following JAL's bankruptcy three years ago, which brought a change in company leadership, have meant that the flag carrier is no longer under the same government sway that has guided major aerospace decisions throughout the postwar period, say people close to both airlines. ANA, by contrast, is now close to the ruling party, and may come under greater pressure to buy Boeing.
</a> "The fall festivals have been successful for the past two decades," said Monmouth County Freeholder Thomas Arnone. "We have a good turnout for the craft shows, the wagon rides, pumpkin-painting because they’re fun and there’s not much of a cost to them. They’re not going to offset the decline in beach revenue, but they can generate business for the local businesses."
</a> From 2001 to 2010, 32 Naegleria fowleri infections were reported in the United States. Of those cases, 30 people were infected by contaminated recreational water and two by water from a geothermal drinking water supply, according to the CDC.
</a> From Wednesday 23 October, applicants who received some of their requested tickets in the initial period will have the chance to purchase more on a first come, first served basis, with those who received all of their initial application able to join the sale from Friday 25 October.
</a> Within six months the Leysons had been forcibly removed to the ghetto and allocated a shared one-bedroom apartment. Deportations to Auschwitz and elsewhere soon started; Gauleiter Frank was determined to make the city Judenfrei. Leon, who had some narrow escapes, lived in the ghetto with his family from 1940 to 1943, then worked in a forced-labour camp in Plaszow until 1944. Meanwhile, his relatives, along with the other Jews in Narewka, were being murdered.
</a> "Game of Thrones" devotees dressed as their favoritecharacter from the show to attend the panel featuring cast andcrew, who discussed the past season. HBO is also hosting faninteractive experiences, parties with the cast. It even debuteda new beer in honor of the show.
</a> “One important thing to understand is that when someone promotes a post in feed and pays to promote it, the stuff that’s getting distribution organically still gets distribution, it doesn’t get replaced from feed. It may get a lower placement, but it doesn’t get replaced. And the placement of the sponsored post or promoted post is also based on the quality of that post (so promoted content still has a quality algorithm attached to it.) If the promoted post isn’t that good, it gets lower placement, but it will get more distribution either way because it’s being paid for, but it’s still takes quality into account.
</a> Added to that uncertainty is a looming battle between rivalU.S. political parties over raising the U.S. debt ceiling toallow the government to keep borrowing money to pay its bills.That decision is expected to come to a head later this year.
</a> It's a big deal when your two largest foreign creditors speak out like this — and it doesn't get any bigger than these two. China holds $1.28 trillion in US Treasury bonds, while Japan owns $1.14 trillion worth of the stuff.
</a> They might have made it here slightly sooner had they not developed a tendency to bottle promotion pushes at the last possible moment. West Ham and Reading beat them in the play-off semi finals of 2012 and 2011 and although they made the final in 2010 they were beaten by Blackpool when heavy favourites.
</a> The scientific case for allowing well-regulated fracking to go forward in upstate New York has grown with each of the 63 months that state officials have been dithering. The only question is whether Cuomo will let science be his guide.
</a> "It's like New York City at lunch time here. We are reallybusy," said marina manager Steve Penny. "We are doing everythingwe can to make room for 4 to 6 feet of water. Anything we canmove, we get out."
</a> Generating advertising revenue has been one of Facebook’s greatest challenges. But after several missteps, the company has recently strengthened its advertising chops, especially for its mobile audience.
</a> Danny Gordon, brother of Formby mum Anne Williams, who lost her battle with cancer in April after campaigning relentlessly for many years to get a new inquest in her son Kevin's death said, "We're hoping to hear that they have got things moving.
</a> The Governors Awards used to be presented as part of the Academy Awards in the spring, but starting in 2009, the honors have been given out during a separate event, allowing for expanded retrospectives of the awardees work without the time constraint of the Oscar telecast. The Academy Board of Governors selects up to four testimonial awards each year, the majority of which are honorary Oscars. They can also choose one Humanitarian Award and one Irving G. Thalberg Award for a producer.
</a> You want to keep prosecuting baseball for not doing enough in the past, have at it. But no sport ever made a bigger and more important statement than Major League Baseball did with Rodriguez, who appealed his suspension, and the other 12 guys â?? and their union â?? who accepted the sanctions handed down to them Monday by Commissioner Bud Selig.
</a> France's finance minister Pierre Moscovici has been speaking to the BBC's Andrew Walker. He says he won't stand for "France-bashing". The economy is getting better, he says, and reforms to pensions and the labour market will make France "more competitive, more creative".
</a> As desperate relatives checked the list of victims, rescue efforts were continuing. Reports suggest the block was around 30 years old and belonged to the city’s municipal authority. Those living there were said to be its employees and their families. Some sources suggest that they had been asked to leave it earlier this year although there are no details about why that request was made.
</a> "While underlying profits were up 34 percent our costs arerising faster than revenues, which is not good enough and needsto change -- we have a lot more to do on costs and cash,"Rishton told reporters. He said an increase of 261 millionpounds in inventory was "disappointing".
</a> From the outset, Hall said, "Our greatest goal was to establish an anchor" â?? a defensible point of attack on the fire's flank â?? by cutting firebreaks and dropping retardant that would "prevent fire from coming into Yarnell and Peeples Valley."
</a> â??We know that through challenging your brain you can drive plasticity and improve its function,â?? Gazzaley told reporters on a telephone briefing. â??We would hope that this type of training would have real-life transfer.â??
</a> Tamasin Cave from the pressure group SpinWatch, told the committee that the addition of charities and campaign groups into the lobbying bill was a "deliberate act of divide and rule, that has the signature of Lynton Crosby [the Conservative Party's election strategist] all over it." She added "This bill, as it stands, is worse than nothing. It is bogus."
</a> Apple suppliers Goertex jumped 5.2 percent inShenzhen, while AAC Technology gained 0.8 percentafter the first day of sales for Apple's new iPhonesdrew long queues. One analyst said the first weekend wouldlikely top the initial sales figures of last year's model.
</a> “Our hearts go out to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, and our thoughts are always with them and their families,” the magazine’s editors said in a statement. “The cover story we are publishing this week falls within the traditions of journalism and Rolling Stone’s long-standing commitment to serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important political and cultural issues of our day.
</a> Yet it is males who suffer in our society. From boyhood through adulthood, the White American Male must fight his way through a litany of taunts, assumptions and grievances about his very existence. His oppression is unlike anything American women have faced. Unlike women, however, men donâ??t organize and form groups when theyâ??ve been persecuted. They just bow out of the game.
</a> With the revival in the US property market now well under way the trend for Britons to invest there is gaining hold. Many property-sourcing firms aim their services at British investors, tapping into an established appetite for property and the fact that cash-rich savers here are hungry for returns.
</a> Today, there are ongoing struggles for human rights in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas and every corner of the world. When we talk about rights today, we rarely think of just how many there are, and?how often they’re infringed upon or taken away. It’s easy to forget that the rights many take for granted are the very same others die fighting for.
</a> "The company offered little in terms of its plan for the 2014 marketing campaign, offering no basis to assume recruitment trends improvement," Credit Suisse analyst Glen Santangelo wrote in a note on Friday.
</a> "China is responsible for 50 percent of the world's porkconsumption and their demand is still growing, whereas porkdemand in the U.S. has been declining for almost 15 years," Popetold the agriculture panel.
</a> Haro said the victim's father, who works as security guard at Dodger Stadium, and other family members were motivated to travel from his Southern California home to make his public plea after Montgomery's release and Gascon's explanation for not charging Montgomery.
</a> Lead scientist Dr Jeremy Blaydes, from the University of Southampton, said: â??Because this is an entirely new approach to treatment, the drugs we are developing could be effective against breast cancers that have become resistant to current chemotherapies.
</a> The Obama administration says the bureau is a crucial partof efforts to fix a financial system that failed borrowers,leading to catastrophic results for individuals, smallbusinesses and the financial services sector.
</a> Tepco says it does not know how long the tanks will hold. It reckons it would need to more than double the current capacity over the next three years to contain all the water. It has no plan for after that.
</a> Many cases are rather unusual. The Ombudsman recently upheld a complaint from a prison inmate who had to open a bank account to receive wages for work he was doing under prison guidance. He was sold PPI on the credit card he took out as well, but this would not have paid out as the plan excluded paying out to people, like him, who were on fixed-term contracts.
</a> The CFDA added Huiyuan's Shandong unit had not produced anyjuice since the end of last year, while it had not yet found anyrotten fruit on site at the company's Beijing branch. It addedthat there was as yet no evidence of rotten fruit at the Anhuiunit of China Haisheng Juice Holdings Co Ltd or at theJiangsu unit of Yantai North Andre Juice Co Ltd.
</a> When Titan's hydrocarbons evaporate and encounter ultraviolet radiation in the moon's upper atmosphere, some of the molecules are broken apart and reassembled into longer hydrocarbons like ethylene and propane, NASA said.
</a> The senators hope to hold hearings on the Postal bill after Congress returns in September from a month-long recess, but withintense budget and debt ceiling discussions expected in thefall, it is unclear what attention the Postal Service will get.
</a> The Justice Department said it is looking into the case to determine whether federal prosecutors should file criminal civil rights charges now that Zimmerman has been acquitted in the state case. The department opened an investigation into Martin's death last year but stepped aside to allow the state prosecution to proceed.
</a> “…President Obama cut carbon emissions from automobiles by acting to double fuel efficiency in cars and light trucks. Now he needs to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to finally cut emissions from power plants, proposed and existing.”
</a> “It’s a fact-finding mission,” she explains candidly. “When people criticise glossy magazines, it’s a business supplying a need. Otherwise we wouldn’t function. I’m not here for humanity; I’m here to make money as all big businesses are.”
</a> The 75,000 deadweight-tonne Nordic Orion, built in 2011,left the Canadian Pacific port of Vancouver in early Septemberwith a cargo of coking coal and is scheduled to arrive in theFinnish port of Pori on Oct. 7, according to AIS shipping data.
</a> The Texas A&M quarterback, trying to salvage his reputation Wednesday at SEC Media Days in Hoover, Ala., said the reason he was a no-show on the third day of the Manning Passing Academy wasnâ??t because he was out late the night before, but rather that he â??oversleptâ?? and that his phone died overnight.
</a> An encouraging four-game split with the red-hot Los Angeles Dodgers, capped off with a 3-1 victory Sunday, leaves the Rockies with a 46-50 record, 4½ games behind the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League West.
</a> "Let me make it clear I respect the views of my fellow athletes, and let me state in the strongest terms that I am opposed to any discrimination against gay people on the grounds of their sexuality," she said in a statement.
</a> "But whether we start in September or a bit later is not in itself the key issue - the difference in the overall amount of securities we buy will be modest," he told a monetary policy conference in Frankfurt.
</a> The so-called Gabriel Stone, a meter (three-foot)-tall tablet said to have been found 13 years ago on the banks of the Dead Sea, features 87 lines of an unknown prophetic text dated as early as the first century BC, at the time of the Second Jewish Temple.<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/30/gabriel-stone-jerusalem-unveils-mysterious-hebrew-tablet_n_3184953.html?utm_hp_ref=religion" target="_hplink">Read more here...</a>
</a> "The first question I asked her was, 'Did you say yes?' Then I asked Kanye, 'Did she say yes?' There was this big question on the billboard and we needed an answer. She just looked at me and said 'YES!'" he recalled.
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</a> Asked about the outlook for 2014, he said Raytheon should be able to maintain good profit margins, despite the challenging U.S. budget environment, through cost-cutting and international sales, which account for 30 percent of the company's business.
</a> The night after he lost a match at Key Biscayne, Fla., in March 2012, Fish's heart started racing uncontrollably. That May, doctors induced extreme palpitations to try to pinpoint the problem. He returned for last year's Wimbledon.
</a> "Glee" star Lea Michele, who was dating Monteith in an off-screen romance at the time of his death, appeared near the end of the hour-long episode, singing the Bob Dylan song, "Make You Feel My Love" while tears streamed down her face. Her character, Rachel Berry, had dated Finn on the show.