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Aug 31, 2010

What you should know about your heart and heart valve diseases

This section offers important information for people with heart valve disease. You’ll find an overview of the anatomy of the heart and its functions, as well as information about heart valve disease and possible treatment options.

Drop Your Cholesterol to a Healthy Level in 30 Days

Learn to maximize your cholesterol drop with minimal life style changes.You don't have to make drastic changes like taking out all meat and diary product or exercises for hours per day.Paying special attention to a few minor things in your diet and life style and taking the right supplements is enough to drop your cholesterol down to normal in less than a month.

Congenital Heart Disease

Congenital heart disease is a type of defect or malformation in one or more structures of the heart or blood vessels that occurs before birth.These defects occur while the fetus is developing in the uterus and affect 8-10 out of every 1,000 children.Congenital heart defects may produce symptoms at birth, during childhood, and sometimes not until adulthood.About 500,000 adults in the U.S. have congenital heart disease ......

Tonga orders Supreme Court judge involved in Ashika enquiry to stop hearing cases

The Supreme Court judge who presided over the Ashika enquiry in Tonga has been told to stop sitting as a judge and to hand all his files to the acting Chief Justice.

Mafi joins Leicester

Leicester have added Tonga lock Steve Mafi to their squad as an injury dispensation signing.

Geoff Parling is expected to miss the opening three months of the season due to a neck injury and fellow second-row forward Richard Blaze has a foot problem, so Mafi comes in to strengthen Richard Cockerill's squad ahead of the Aviva Premiership season, which begins this weekend.

Raiders release four, one more due

Written by Patrick A. Patterson
Monday, 30 August 2010 18:25

The Oakland Raiders announced the release of four of the five players they need to jettison in order to get down to the league mandated 75 players by tomorrow.

2009 Samoa-Tonga tsunami disaster occurred due to 2 earthquakes, not 1

Scientists have found that the massive earthquake that struck the South Pacific on September 29, 2009 was a combination of two earthquakes - one with magnitude 8.1, which then trig

HMAS Tobruk leads aid mission to PNG

AAP

The Australian navy is for first time leading a joint aid mission to the Pacific that sets to win hearts, minds and fix other body parts.

Tonga leader says judge’s claims false and he left them in the lurch

The Tonga Government says claims by a Supreme Court Judge that it demanded he stop working as a judge are false.

The judge, Warwick Andrew, who had headed the Commission of Inquiry into the sinking of the Princess Ashika, had resigned and he says his finish date was October the 5th.

Rini Sworn in as Minister, Solomon Islands

Mr. Rini was sworn in yesterday as the Minister for National Planning and Aid Coordination.



Tonga Declines Government's Request

Tongan authorities will conduct their own investigations into the recent shooting and death of a former police officer from Guadalcanal Province, according to laws of the Kingdom of Tonga.

Auckland: A new wave

At the beginning of the 21st century, immigration is an important
issue in New Zealand and Auckland, and much of the public and media focus relates to the increasing ethnic diversification of the population.

Old timer's jamboree

Folk legend John Prine closed the Edmonton Folk Festival Sunday night. (JASON FRANSON, Edmonton Sun)
Ian Tyson, at a folk fest press conference Sunday, said something about not being too happy about the world we’re “going into.”
Typical. Old people are forever complaining that the world is going to hell, when it’s just a natural reaction to their own bodies falling apart. No offence to Alberta’s country legend, but shut up. The kids don’t need to hear this. The next generation, the future, is going to be just fine.

Te Vaka's Sounds of Polynesia Coming to Harlow's

Ship not airstrip says Tokelau Faipule

Tokelau’s Minister of Transport says an airstrip is not a priority for the atolls.
The New Zealand Government has asked interested businesses to look at whether or not an airstrip for Tokelau is feasible.
Tokelauans currently rely on a 20-year-old boat for all transport to and from the atolls.

Some backing for Tokelau airstrip idea

The leader of one of Tokelau’s atolls says there is a lot of support for a proposed airstrip.
The New Zealand Government has asked interested businesses to look at whether or not an airstrip is feasible.

Tiny Tokelau's smart strategies of waste disposal

Tokelau has just ten square kilometres of land with about 1,500 people living there, making waste disposal by landfill a big challenge.

Mara goes it alone in first grade debut

Alehana Mara didn't tell his family he was making his first grade debut; he didn't tell his friends. He only told his partner because he figured she would wonder why he was flying to Australia. He didn't need any extra pressure.

Baseball, Football, Golf, Hockey, Ice Hockey, Soccer, Rugby, Basketball, Tennis, Table-Tennis/Ping-Pong, College Sports

New Zealand Team, 2010 FIBA World Championship 

Lebanon Team, 2010 FIBA World Championship

Spain Team, 2010 FIBA World Championship 

Lithuania Team, 2010 FIBA World Championship 


France Team, 2010 FIBA World Championship 


Puerto Rico Team, 2010 FIBA World Championship

Russia Team, 2010 FIBA World Championship 

China Team, 2010 FIBA World Championship 

Greece Team, 2010 FIBA World Championship 

Turkey Team, 2010 FIBA World Championship 

Iran Team, 2010 FIBA World Championship

Croatia Team, 2010 FIBA World Championship

Slovenia Team, 2010 FIBA World Championship

Brazil Team, 2010 FIBA World Championship

USA Team, 2010 FIBA World Championship 

Tunisia Team, 2010 FIBA World Championship Turkey

Prosecutors question Egyptian culture minister over van Gogh theft, FOX NEWS

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's culture minister says he was questioned by prosecutors for three hours over last week's theft of a Vincent van Gogh painting.
Farouk Hosni told reporters Monday he volunteered for the interrogation to dispel accusations of negligence in the robbery.

Pro-Vatican politicians protest Gadhafi's effort to convert Christians during Italy visit

ROME (AP) — Pro-Vatican politicians are complaining about Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's effort to convert Christians to Islam during his visit to Italy.

Gadhafi gave a lecture on Islam to a few hundred Italian women on Sunday upon his arrival in Rome, urged them to convert, and handed out copies of the Quran.

Ex-Congo VP tells war crimes court he has no funds for defense because his assets are frozen

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Lawyers for former Congo Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba complained to the International Criminal Court on Monday they cannot conduct a fair defense because prosecutors have seized his assets.

Iran hardline media call French first lady 'prostitute' for supporting woman facing stoning

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's hardline media have called French first lady Carla Bruni a "prostitute" after she expressed strong support for an Iranian woman facing death by stoning for adultery.

The Monday report by the state news website comes two days after the hardline Kayhan newspaper also described the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy as a "prostitute."

Mexico Says Drug Lord 'the Barbie' Captured

MEXICO CITY -- Federal police on Monday captured a long-sought, alleged Texas-born gang kingpin who faces drug trafficking charges in the U.S. and has been blamed for a vicious turf war that has included bodies hung from bridges and shootouts in central Mexico.

Mayor of Violent Mexican Border State Assassinated

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico -- Gunmen killed the mayor of a town in the drug-plagued Mexican border state of Tamaulipas on Sunday in a region where suspected cartel hitmen recently massacred 72 migrants, the ....

Gunman Kills 7, Himself in Rampage in Slovakia

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia -- A gunman went on a rampage in Slovakia's capital on Monday, killing seven people and wounding 15, then committed suicide, officials said.

China, North Korea Confirm Kim Jong Il's Secretive Visit

SEOUL, South Korea -- After Kim Jong Il's safe return Monday, North Korea confirmed .....

NATO: 8 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Bomb Attacks in Afghanistan


KABUL, Afghanistan -- Roadside bombs killed eight members of the international force in Afghanistan -- including seven U.S. troops -- raising to more than a dozen the number who have died in the previous three days, NATO said Tuesday .....

Two Men Arrested on Terror Suspicion on Flight From Chicago to Amsterdam

Two men from the Detroit area were arrested in Amsterdam on a flight arriving from Chicago, reportedly suspected of assessing the aviation system for a potential future terror attack.

Earl Batters Caribbean, Threatens East Coast


SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Hurricane Earl battered tiny islands across the northeastern ....