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Mel Gibson is a bonehead not a racist, says Whoopi Goldberg - Telegraph

Mel Gibson is no racist, says Whoopi Goldberg
 Gibson and Grigorieva are in the midst of a vicious custody battle over their daughter Photo: Reuters
Mel Gibson is a bonehead not a racist, says Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg Photo: AP
Goldberg defended the Hollywood actor, who was taped allegedly telling his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva that "if you get raped by a pack of n------ it will be all your fault".
Speaking on The View, Goldberg insisted: "I don't like what he did here but I know Mel, and I know he's not a racist.

Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have married in a secret ceremony in the Bahamas, it emerged on Wednesday.

Actors Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem marry in the Bahamas
Bardem and Cruz, who started dating in 2007, appeared together in the 2008 Woody Allen romantic comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona Photo: REUTERS
The Oscar-winning Spanish actors, who fell in love on the set of Woody Allen's 2008 romantic comedy "Vicky Cristina Barcelona", tied the knot earlier this month, ending months of speculation over their nuptial plans.

Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri flies home from US - Telegraph

'Abducted' Iranian nuclear scientist 'seeks refuge in Pakistan embassy in Washington'- Shahram Amiri
By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent
Shahram Amiri
Shahram Amiri had "left American soil" on and was on his way back to Iran via a third country, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
Before he left the Iranian interests section of the Pakistan embassy in Washington, where he had sought refuge, he gave an interview to Iranian television denying he had gone to America voluntarily, as Washington claims.

Taliban attacks kill 12 Nato troops in Afghanistan - Telegraph

TV and movie lovers rejoice:

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TV and movie lovers rejoice: Comic-Con takes place this weekend, inviting fans around the world to meet stars from their favorite shows and hear about what it's like behind the scenes. Swarms of fang-bearing True Blood followers, honorary Glee club members -- frequently off-key or tone deaf -- and aspiring wizards from the abundant pool of Harry Potter admirers will descend on San Diego for four days. Heightened anticipation continues to build for the annual convention, which frequently stirs concerns of overcrowding, drawing over 125,000 people last year. Tickets for the gathering have been sold out for months, but Comic-Con is sponsoring a last-chance sweepstakes for tickets. Click here for the entry form; winners will be drawn Friday. [Jaunted]

A new deal for urban explorers promises authentic, cultural day trips in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco, all offered with a two-for-one special. Now travelers can bring a friend for free when they buy an Urban Adventure, including a stroll around Hollywood's most infamous bars and movie locations, a glimpse of New York's immigrant heritage through food tastings in Chinatown and Little Italy, and a walking tour through San Francisco's Mission District and Chinatown, ending with a catamaran cruise around the city's scenic bay . Offers are good through September 1.

Photo: Fans embrace their inner geek-dom at the 2009 Comic-Con, scragz via Flickr.

Eclipse "Frown"

 Picture of an arc of light seen around the sun during a solar eclipse.

Easter Island Eclipse Watcher

 A woman uses a special filter to watch a solar eclipse near a stone statue on Easter Island.

Eclipse Halo

 The sun's faint upper atmosphere is visible as a white ring during a total solar eclipse over Easter Island.

Solar Eclipse Over Chile

 A solar eclipse is visible over the port town of Valparaiso, Chile, in a combined picture.
The moon takes a bite out of the sun Sunday over the seaside town of Valparaiso, Chile, during a partial solar eclipse. The photographer created the effect by shooting the top part of the picture through a piece of exposed x-ray film.
During a total solar eclipse, the moon passes completely between Earth and the sun, casting a circular shadow over the planet. On the ground, viewers in the full shadow's path—aka the path of totality—see the moon cover the sun's disk for several minutes. Only the sun's faint upper atmosphere, or corona, remains visible.
The full effect of Sunday's total solar eclipse was visible to just a few people along a narrow, 155-mile-wide (250-kilometer-wide) band of the Pacific Ocean. Starting north of New Zealand, the path of the moon's shadow swept over a few remote islands—including the Chilean territory of Easter Island (Isla de Pascua)—and ended over the southernmost tip of South America.

Sky-watchers flocked by the thousands to Polynesian islands or booked passage on cruise ships to see the total solar eclipse. Viewers in Valparaiso, 75 miles (121 kilometers) northwest of Santiago, were among those in the Pacific Basin and in South America able to see a partial eclipse.

—with reporting by Andrew Fazekas
Published July 12, 2010


Afghanistan’s Lithium Wealth Could Remain Elusive

Extracted salt sits in piles at the Uyuni Salt Flat in Uyuni, Bolivia, on Nov. 18, 2009. The salt flat is also the world's largest untapped lithium reserve, containing enough of the lightest metal to make batteries for more than 4.8 billion electric cars. Photographer: Noah Friedman-Rudovsky/Bloomberg via Getty Images 
The Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia is one of the world's large untapped reserves of lithium, a key metal for batteries. Geologists say Afghanistan has similar lithium wealth, but as in Bolivia, politics likely will be the deciding factor in resource development.
Photograph by Noah Friedman-Rudovsky, Bloomberg/ Getty Images
By Henry J. Reske
for National Geographic News
Published June 16, 2010
This story is part of a special series that explores energy issues. For more, visit The Great Energy Challenge.
Somewhere in the trackless lands that make up much of Afghanistan (map), just to the right or left of the Old Silk Road, there are apparently huge caches of untapped wealth in the form of metal and stone prized in both the ancient world and the modern: gold, copper, and lapis lazuli, to name a few.

Secret Tunnel Uncovered in Pharaoh's Tomb

     Picture of a man standing in a tunnel found under ancient Egyptian pharaoh Seti I's tomb.

    Tombs Emerge From Egypt Sands

    Picture of workers at the site of two newfound ancient Eyptian tombs.

    Cocaine Submarine Seized

    Picture of soldiers standing atop a cocaine submarine in swampy waters

    Close Encounter With Lutetia

    A picture by European spacecraft Rosetta of asteroid Lutetia

    Image courtesy ESA
    Asteroid 21 Lutetia is exposed, craters and all, in a picture captured Saturday by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft. Rosetta's close encounter with Lutetia revealed a battered world—a possible remnant from the birth of our solar system, astronomers say.
    To snap the above image, Rosetta swooped about 1,965 miles (3,162 kilometers) above Lutetia's surface. The image is the highest-resolution photo taken of the space rock, located more than 270 million miles (440 million kilometers) away from Earth, between Mars and Jupiter. (Watch a video of Rosetta's flyby.)
    The sharp edge visible above, at bottom, may be evidence that 81-mile-wide (130-kilometer-wide) Lutetia broke off from a "mother asteroid," said NASA space scientist Claudia Alexander, who led the United States' involvement in the Rosetta mission.

    Jungle Cat Mimics Monkey to Lure Prey—A First

    A margay.
    The margay cat mimics monkeys while hunting, researchers say (file photo).
    Photograph by J.H. Pete Carmichael, Riser/Getty Images

    Regulation of Notch1 Signaling by Nrf2: Implications for Tissue Regeneration -- Wakabayashi et al. 3 (130): ra52 -- Science Signaling

    Carlos Santana proposes onstage

    LEGENDARY guitarist Carlos Santana is engaged after proposing onstage to his girlfriend, drummer Cindy Blackman. 

    Legendary guitarist Carlos Santana has proposed onstage to his drummer girlfriend, Cindy Blackman.
    AAP
    LEGENDARY guitarist Carlos Santana is engaged after proposing onstage to his girlfriend, drummer Cindy Blackman.
    The proposal came during a tour stop Friday in Tinley Park, Illinois, outside Chicago. His representatives say he popped the question four songs into the concert after a Blackman drum solo.
    She said yes, and they sealed it with a kiss, which was met with cheers from the crowd.
    The multiplatinum-selling Grammy winner ended a 34-year marriage to Deborah Santana in 2007.

    Michael Jackson's grave vandalised

    MICHAEL Jackson's final resting place has been vandalised, with a group of fans writing messages on the building where the 'Thriller' star is entombed. 

    Michael Jackson.
    AAP
    MICHAEL Jackson's final resting place has been vandalised.

    A group of fans of the late singer - who died of acute Propofol intoxication last June - managed to obtain access to the Great Mausoleum at Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Memorial Park, with the cemetery now pledging to review security following the incident.

    Gibson aims at Hispanics in new rant

    OSCAR-WINNING Braveheart director Mel Gibson uses racial language to disparage an Hispanic cleaning lady, in a fresh recording posted online on Tuesday. 

    Mel Gibson is being investigated in a possible domestic violence case involving his ex-girlfriend.OSCAR-WINNING Braveheart director Mel Gibson uses racial language to disparage an Hispanic cleaning lady, in a fresh recording posted online on Tuesday.
    The recording, allegedly made in a screaming phone argument with his Russian-born ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, follows the release of earlier rants in which Gibson refers to black people as "n*****s," calls Grigorieva a "whore" and a "bitch in heat," and apparently acknowledges beating her.
    In one tape, Lethal Weapon star Gibson even reportedly threatens to kill Grigorieva.

    UN to review Aussie gender equality

    AUSTRALIA has thrown some large stones at the glass ceiling since the United Nations last reviewed our gender equality agenda. 

    Australia has taken significant steps towards a more gender equal society.AUSTRALIA has thrown some large stones at the glass ceiling since the United Nations last reviewed our gender equality agenda.
    So there will be plenty to talk about next week when Australia's four-year progress is reviewed by the UN's division for the advancement of women in New York.

    Vitamin D level 'link to Parkinson's'

    GREATER levels of vitamin D have been linked to a lower risk of Parkinson's disease in a study in Finland.

    © iStockphoto.com/Dmitriy Shironosov
    GREATER levels of vitamin D have been linked to a lower risk of Parkinson's disease in a study in Finland where low sunlight leads to a chronic lack of the nutrient, researchers said Monday.
    Scientists from the National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, first hypothesised that Parkinson's "may be caused by a continuously inadequate vitamin D status leading to a chronic loss of dopaminergic neurons in the brain."

    Obesity gene linked to Alzheimer's

    Shopaholics 'may have mental disorder'

    SHOPAHOLICS be warned, you may be driven by the same disorder that prompts others to fill their homes with junk.

    Shopaholics may be driven by the same disorder which prompts others to fill their homes with junk.


    Local woman rallies her neighbours

    Safety plea: After helping a young man who had been beaten up, Marianne Mattingly said it was time neighbourhoods came together to make their streets safer.

    Local woman rallies her neighbours
    WHEN Marianne Mattingly heard a young girl screaming profanity in the street on a Saturday night, she put it down to the usual drunken shenanigans.


    Pacific and European science and technology researchers strengthen relationship

    Nine contestants for the 2010 Miss Heilala title, Tonga


    Miss Tonga Tourism USA, Nyoka Lavulo

    Appeal Court overturns "cruel" flogging sentence for 17-year-old prisoners, Tonga

    2 options for Rota, Tinian nurses, Northern Marianas

    Interior requests more FBI agents for Northern Mariana Islands

    Interior requests more FBI agents for NMI | local-news

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    Collapsed flame tree damaging two vehicles. No injuries. Marianas Islands


    NO ONE WAS HURT. Department of Public Works personnel extricate a collapsed flame tree from the window of a passing car on Beach Road, Tuesday morning, damaging two vehicles.  Fortunately there were no injuries.



    Free health seminars at Joeten-Kiyu library | local-news

    Vietnamese Delegation visits Palau | plocal-news

    Palau needs solid policies to avoid non-communicable diseases | plocal-news

    Palau needs solid policies to avoid non-communicable diseases | plocal-news

    MOH considers privatizing services to restore budget cut | plocal-news

    Calling all photographers! | health-matters

    New rule makes it easier for Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome to claim benefits | local-news

    Looking for America on Saipan | around-the-island

    Saipan mayor’s office to host Japanese studentsSaipan mayor’s office to host Japanese students | around-the-island

    'Bikini Killer' awaits appeal verdict

    Republican Party signs unity pledge


    Senator Eddie Baza Calvo signs the Republican Party’s unity pledge at Meskla Restaurant in Hagatna on Tuesday. Looking on are Sen. Ray Tenorio, Lt. Gov. Mike Cruz and Sen. Jim Espaldon. Photo by Zita Y. Taitano

    Papua New Guinea men survive ocean ordeal by eating wood - Telegraph

    Men rescued after two months adrift in Pacific Ocean
    By Bonnie Malkin in Sydney
    Published: 4:20PM GMT 18 Nov 2009
    Emergency personnel from Majuro Hospital greet the five surviving Papua New Guinea drifters Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES
    Eight members of an extended family, most of them in their late teens, were left at the mercy of the seas and the elements after their 22-foot boat ran out of fuel on a trip to a neighbouring island. After finally being rescued near Nauru by a US fishing vessel two of them died from severe malnutrition before the captain could reach medical aid. Survivors said a 15-year-old boy had drowned after jumping overboard to rescue clothing that had blown away.

    King admits being hurt by WASC report

    Wells Fargo’s Saipan, 637 other branches to close down Sept. 4 | local-news

    People flock to the U.S. Post Office in Chalan Kanoa, Saipan, Jul 14, 2010


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    People flock to the U.S. Post Office in Chalan Kanoa yesterday to see whether their refund or federal stimulus checks are already in their mailboxes, following the Fitial administration's mailing out of some 10,000 refund checks worth $6.4 million on Monday night. (Haidee V. Eugenio)