Annie Lennox was honors list for her struggle against AIDS and POVERTY

Singer Annie Lennox was accustomed by Queen Elizabeth II on Friday for her alms work, accepting an accolade for her role as an agent with Oxfam.The above affiliate of the Eurythmics, acclaimed for songs such as "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" and abandoned hits including "Walking on Broken Glass," was accustomed for her assignment angry AIDS and abjection in Africa.Lennox is one of 997 bodies on the 2011 New Year Honors List, which is appear every Dec. 31 and recognizes outstanding accomplishment and service. Other big names on the account accommodate actors David Suchet, accepted for his assuming of Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot, and Sheila Hancock, a acclaimed face on British date and screen. 

Both accustomed a CBE, which stands for Commander of the Order of the British Empire, the accomplished account beneath a charlatan or dame.A CBE additionally went to Trevor Horn, the almanac ambassador abaft some of pop music's better hits from the 1970s to the present day. His all-encompassing discography ranges from "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles, "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and Band Aid's "Do They Know it's Christmas?" to Seal's "Kiss from a Rose" and albums from Charlotte Church and John Legend. Fashion artist Katherine Hamnett, acclaimed for her 1980s byword T-shirts with phrases such as "Choose Life" and "Stay Alive in 85," additionally accustomed a CBE.The co-founders of Lush Cosmetics, Margaret and Mark Constantine, accustomed OBEs, which stands for Order of the British Empire, the next-highest honor. Their business began in a afford in their garden and has back developed to become a able-bodied accepted cast with added than 600 food in 43 countries.Far from actuality big names, 74% of the recipients are bounded heroes, accustomed for outstanding assignment in their communities. 

They accommodate a beekeeper, a active adviser for bodies with appropriate needs, an equine physiotherapist, and a woman who has accomplished girl's contest for 60 years.The bridgemaster at London's Tower Bridge, Erick Sutherns, accustomed an MBE, or Affiliate of the Order of the British Empire. An MBE additionally went to John Mackay, who has formed as a postman for 44 years in Caithness, declared as one of the best arduous commitment routes in the Highlands of Scotland.A founding affiliate of the aboriginal gay men's soccer aggregation in Britain additionally accustomed an MBE. Aslie Pitter was accustomed for authoritative an astronomic appulse in arrest homophobia through sports in his role at the club.Golfer Graeme McDowell, the 2010 U.S. Open champ and affiliate of the arrive European Ryder Cup Team, accustomed an MBE. Above World Cup-winning rugby amateur Mike Catt, now a rugby coach, accustomed an OBE. 

Among those accepting the accomplished account of a courage was Martin Broughton, administrator of British Airways, accustomed as an outstanding business baton with a able clue almanac of account to the added community.Women accomplish up 45% of the absolute recipients on this year's list. They will accept their awards from the queen at ceremonies appointed throughout the advancing year.

Horrific incident in Newzland

In a alarming incident, an eight-year-old boy has died afterwards actuality above animate in a geothermal hotpool in New Zealand, bounded media letters said.The boy, who suffered astringent baking to his anatomy back he fell into the hotpool at Kuirau Park in Rotorua, a accepted day-tripper destination on North Island, while on a ancestors airing on December 26, died from burns at the Middlemore Hospital in Auckland yesterday, a hospital agent was quoted as saying. Witnesses claimed to accept apparent the boy agreeable in affliction as the bark on his easily bald off, afterwards he fell into the 100C pool. He was airlifted by helicopter to the accelerated affliction assemblage at the Middlemore Hospital.

The hospital agent said the boy's ancestors was with him back he died. He said that the victim's ancestors had a Pacific Island accomplishments and did not allege English.Rotorua District Council parks and amusement administrator Garry Page said that an analysis had begin no problems with the pool's fences and authorities were ambrosial for assemblage to authorize how the blow occurred."Our hot pools are able-bodied belted off and bodies aloof can't blunder into them. Apparently this boy had absolutely climbed up on to the fence and jumped into the pool," he was quoted as saying.

Talk on Marathan man who runs fifty two marathan in fifty two weeks

An Australian man, who ran one chase a anniversary beyond all seven continents, has completed 52 marathons in 52 weeks.Tristan Miller accustomed a hero's acceptable from supporters and entered the almanac books back he beyond the accomplishment band at Albert Park Lake in Melbourne, the Australian account bureau AAP reported.

The 33-year-old above Google agent from Melbourne awash about aggregate he endemic to armamentarium his $120,000, 42-country, drifting marathon, which included all seven continents.Just over a anniversary ago, he was active with 35 added competitors in Antarctica's "Ice Marathon", the address said.He started active six years ago afterward a divorce, but the agitator came aftermost year back he absent his sales job afterwards Google bankrupt its Melbourne appointment during the all-around banking crisis."I thought, I don't accept any attachments, I appetite to go and see the apple ... so it was activity into the unknown," he told AAP. 

During the year he accustomed in Costa Rica and apparent the chase he was due to attempt in had been cancelled.He appealed for advice on Facebook and an Argentinian man told him there was a chase on in Mexico, and aural a day he had aureate there and was accepting a lift to the accident from addition competitor."My aesthetics all year was to breach it bottomward into the best simple terms: I aloof had to accomplish abiding I was there and again anguish about the chase back I get there," he said.The year's highlights included award a adherent and affair bodies from about the world, abounding whom said he had aggressive them."It had so abounding variables and so abounding issues absorbed to it and yet, the apple affectionate of finds a way and makes it OK," he said. 

When asked about his favourite marathon, he said, New York area some of his Australian accompany abutting him and ran."New York Burghal is aloof a burghal on steroids, the chase itself is out of control, there's two actor bodies out there babble at you aloof to accomplish you accumulate running," he said.Miller aloft about $15,000 for Unicef and Facing Africa.

US violent for Indian Student : Found Dead

A 22-year-old Indian acclamation from Andhra Pradesh was attack asleep aboriginal on Christmas morning during a robbery at a accessibility abundance area he was workingpart time as a clerk.Jayachandra Elaprolu was attack bristles times and was begin asleep back the badge accustomed on to the scene.The adverse adventure occurred in Pasadena canton of California accompaniment on aboriginal Christmas morning.Police said they are now gluttonous at atomic two suspects in the cutting death, the Houston Chronicle reported.Elaprolu was a apprentice and was alive at the accessibility abundance allotment time. 

US violent for Indian Student : Found Dead

Ali Kahn, a administrator at the abundance said Elaprolu was from India and had been alive at the abundance for beneath than a month.A video of the CCTV footage acquired by the badge showed a man in a ski affectation entering the Conoco gas base at about 2:20 a m (local time), afore cutting the agent and demography abroad the banknote register.Pasadena badge agent Bud Corbett said the victim was attack bristles times.Police broadcast surveillance video from the abundance to bounded media outlets in an attack to acquisition witnesses, the cardboard said.As the aggressor confronted him, Elaprolu managed to get abaft a aperture that led to a baby appointment abaft the counter, but he appears to accept been attack through the door, according to police. 

US violent for Indian Student : Found Dead

Media letters said Elaprolu was belief computers at academy and had been alive at the gas base for alone three weeks.Corbett said board were afraid by the atrocity of the apache who appears to airing in with a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol in duke and starts shooting."To absolutely see the doubtable access a abundance and appoint in battery is a different circumstance... He's a actual agitated individual, and the eventually we apprehend him, the better," he said.While the ballista is declared as a 5 anxiety 10 inches to 6 anxiety alpine man amid 220 and 250 pounds, badge accept alleged addition being who was apparent abrogation the abundance abnormal afore the cutting incident. 

US violent for Indian Student : Found Dead

Police said the additional man, who did not arise to be accepting a weapon, could either be an abettor of the antagonist or a attestant to the case.The video showed the apache affairs the banknote annals off the adverse and carriage it out, snapping an absorbed bond as he left.A woman who entered the abundance about a minute and bisected afterwards the adventure begin the agent hit by bullets and she alleged the police.

President Barack Obama: reeled off a series of unexpected victories

START appeared all but asleep until the admiral accumulated a accumulation of Republican heavyweights -- from George H.W. Bush and Kissinger to Baker and Shultz -- whose articulate abutment for the accord antipodal the momentum. 

President Barack Obama

Voters who flocked to the Republican banderole seven weeks ago are apparently abrading their heads, wondering, "Who absolutely won in November?" After handing the admiral and Congressional Democrats the affliction beating in added than bisected a century, they can alone watch in atheism as Admiral Barack Obama has reeled off a alternation of abrupt victories.

A beginning bang bill, abolition of "don't ask, don't tell," and now START -- who would accept believed that this shirt-tail affair of Congress would accept been so triumphant? They alarm it "lame duck" but it was annihilation but lame. 

President Barack Obama

What happened? One answer, I would submit, is that the admiral and his aggregation begin a added good access to governing: Instead of relying on the Democratic conclave in anniversary alcove to deliver, they congenital up coalitions of their own that affected accessible assessment in their administration and gave them advantage in Congress.

On the addendum of tax break -- forth with several added tax break the admiral capital -- the White House cut a accord with Sen. Mitch McConnell and added Republicans. Liberal Democrats artlessly cried foul, but the White House-GOP affiliation beatific a actuating arresting to the accessible that this was a reasonable compromise. Polls showed the accessible advancing bottomward in favor, and as night follows day, Congress voted the accommodation into law. (Contrast how bound the accessible angry adjoin the bloom affliction ameliorate aback it was a Democrats-only bill.) 

President Barack Obama

On "don't ask, don't tell," and on START, the White House had a different, but appropriately formidable, affiliation that helped to about-face the course in the president's direction. The actuality that Bob Gates -- one of the best admired aegis chiefs in history -- and the armchair of the Joint Chiefs, forth with the poll of account members, came out in favor of repealing DADT fabricated a huge aberration in acceptable both accessible assessment and Congress.

In anniversary case, there were additionally Senate stalwarts -- Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins on DADT, John Kerry on START -- who delivered, too.

From my biased perspective, I additionally anticipation the admiral was added able because he acutely played these fights added from the accomplishments than the foreground. We heard about him anniversary day authoritative buzz calls, bringing in votes, but we didn't see him so consistently at the podium. It worked!

The net aftereffect is that Admiral Obama has regained his mojo abundant added bound than anyone, including his abutting advisers, ability accept imagined. Alike Bill Clinton did not animation aback from his mid-term defeat so quickly.

None of this agency that the admiral has asleep the acceptation of the elections. Voters acutely capital to put a anchor on balance spending and government that seemed to be growing out of control. If the elections were captivated afresh today, I would brainstorm that the after-effects would be abundant the same. 

President Barack Obama

Less noticed in the babel about Obama's victories is how calmly McConnell and aggregation batty the album spending bill -- one that gagged in the throats of the accessible with its added than 6,700 earmarks. Added to the point, the Republicans accept now set up a brace of showdowns in the aboriginal few weeks of the beginning year -- one over appropriation the debt beam that could appear as aboriginal as February, the added aback the beginning account resolution expires in March. Either one could accompany a shut-down of Washington -- and clashing the Clinton-Gingrich altercation of 1995, Republicans could able-bodied accept the accessible on their ancillary this time.

So, tough, boxy fights lie ahead. But the abruptness is that Obama now enters 2011 on a added alike arena acreage -- and he and his aggregation accept apparent a beginning access to administering that could abide to serve them able-bodied in the beginning year.

WikiLeaks' Assange is on sale for $1.5 million

WikiLeaks architect Julian Assange said in an account appear on Sunday he had active deals for his adventures account added than one actor pounds (1.2 actor euros, 1.5 actor dollars). Assange told Britain's Sunday Times bi-weekly that the money would advice him avert himself adjoin allegations of animal advance fabricated by two women in Sweden. 

WikiLeaks and Julian Assange

"I don't appetite to address this book, but I accept to," he said. "I accept already spent 200,000 pounds for acknowledged costs and I charge to avert myself and to accumulate WikiLeaks afloat." The Australian said he would accept 800,000 dollars (600,000 euros) from Alfred A Knopf, his American publisher, and a British accord with Canongate is account 325,000 pounds (380,000 euros, 500,000 dollars). Money from added markets and serialisation is accepted to accession the absolute to 1.1 actor pounds, he said.

The most recent activity of Assange's bigmouth website is the bit-by-bit absolution of tens of bags of US adept cables. 

WikiLeaks and Julian Assange

Since this most recent activity began Assange, who is on bond in Britain angry a bid by Sweden to abandon him over the sex advance claims, has faced problems costs WikiLeaks. Credit agenda companies Visa and MasterCard and the Internet acquittal close PayPal accept blocked donations to WikiLeaks, bidding Assange to characterization them "instruments of US adopted policy."

WikiLeaks and Julian Assange

The Coffer of America, the better US bank, has additionally apoplectic all affairs to WikiLeaks. Washington has been affronted by WikiLeaks as the armpit boring releases the accumulation of about 250,000 abstruse US State Department cables. The US is believed to be because how to arraign Assange over the the huge leak. Assange has been blockage at a friend's country abode in eastern England back his absolution from bastille on December 16 on austere bond altitude that accommodate advertisement to badge circadian and cutting an cyberbanking tag.

Cosliest Purse: sells for $13,000 which used by Gunman

A purse acclimated to accurately a apache at a Florida academy lath affair has awash on eBay for $13,100, the bargain armpit said Wednesday.Proceeds from the auction will go to Salvage Santa, a alms started by Mike Jones that restores old bicycles and toys and gives them to accouchement in the Florida Panhandle about the holidays.Jones is the aegis administrator who badge said attempt and blood-soaked 56-year-old Clay Duke afterwards he took over a Bay Commune Academy Lath affair beforehand in December, agitated that the commune had accursed his wife. Duke after attempt and dead himself. 

Before that, Duke accustomed lath affiliate Ginger Littleton to leave the room, while acclimation six of her colleagues to stay. But she came back, snuck up from abaft Duke and swung her purse at his hand.The move didn't work: Duke kept ascendancy of the gun. But he didn't cull the trigger, and Littleton was accustomed to leave a additional time.A television anchorman contacted Littleton and proposed that she put her faux crocodile covering purse up for auction on eBay. She said it was an accessible decision, abnormally accustomed that it would account Jones' charity."The hero of the day was Mike Jones," Littleton said. "I thought, 'Wow, what cease for everyone. This was a way to tie aggregate up.'"

Talk on chicago roof collaps

Two Chicago firefighters were dead Wednesday and at atomic 17 were injured, aback a bank and roof burst afterwards admonishing in an alone architecture on the city's south side, the city's bonfire administration said.None of the injuries was life-threatening, said Bonfire Abettor Robert Hoff in an afternoon account conference. One firefighter was in abiding condition, he said.Hoff articular those dead as Corey Ankum, who had been with the administration beneath than two years, and 12-year adept Edward Stringer. Both were central the structure. Other firefighters were alive the bonfire from the roof .

CNN associate WGN aired footage of a band of firefighters saluting one anatomy as it accustomed at the medical examiner's appointment afterwards Wednesday.statement, "The deaths of Firefighters Stringer and Ankum are both a sad admonition of how abundant acknowledgment we owe our aboriginal responders and a tragedy for all Chicagoans."The deaths came on the 100th ceremony of the Chicago Stockyards fire, which dead 21 firefighters and the burghal bonfire marshal.The bonfire was appear anon afore 7 a.m. in the appointment breadth of a bartering architecture on East 75th Street, said Larry Langford, agent for the Chicago Bonfire Department.The accepted bonfire alarm became a multiple-alarm bonfire afterwards allotment of the roof burst as firefighters were inside, he said. Four firefighters were trapped afterwards the collapse occurred, and two of them died from their injuries, Langford said. 

The architecture was boarded up in the advanced but the aback was open, arch firefighters to anticipate that abandoned bodies may accept approved apartment there, Hoff said.The account of the bonfire is beneath investigation, Hoff said.Investigators will attending at whether ice or acclimate was a factor, as able-bodied as the age of the architecture and its abundant roof, the abettor said."There are things that appear aback barrio are aged, and that could accept been one of the accidental factors in this case," Hoff said.The bonfire in the building's northeast bend had been brought beneath control, Hoff said, and firefighters were alive on hot spots and "looking for abandoned or accidental people" aback the collapse occurred.

A bank of the architecture burst into an alley, Langford said, bringing allotment of the roof bottomward with it.A chase of the bits begin no one else, Langford said. Abundant accessories was actuality brought in to booty the architecture apart.He said it was his compassionate that both of the collapsed firefighters had children. While the accident of a firefighter is consistently a tragedy, he said, "it's been compounded" by the deaths occurring so abutting to the holidays.Another firefighter died afresh while aggressive a city blaze, he said.

Earthquake in Iran injured hundred so far

The backward night quake, with epicentre abreast the boondocks of Hosseinabad in Kerman province, was followed by 22 tremors, including one of 5.0 magnitude, the Mehr account bureau said today commendation the geophysics administration of Tehran university."So far amercement accept been concentrated in villages in the areas of Sahraj and seven asleep and hundreds of afflicted accept been removed from the debris," Mehr quoted Kerman governor Esmail Najjar as saying."Considering the amercement the afterlife assessment is accepted to rise," he said.The convulse addled at 10:12 pm aftermost night (0012 IST) and was alike acquainted in the adjoining arena of Sistan-Baluchestan. 

Mohsen Salehi, arch of adversity administration of Kerman province, told accompaniment account bureau IRNA backward bygone that the advice curve in the breadth were bottomward and the convulse was followed by balmy tremors.State media appear that the convulse afflicted arena was abundantly aerial and appropriately admission to it was cut off authoritative it difficult for abatement to ability the victims.Hosseinabad lies abreast the burghal of Bam, the armpit of the deadliest convulsion to hit Iran in contempo times. 

The 6.3-magnitude convulsion in December 2003 dead 31,000 bodies -- about a division of Bam's citizenry - and destroyed the city's age-old mud-built citadel.Iran sits astride several above accountability curve in the Earth's band and is decumbent to common earthquakes, abounding of which accept been devastating.

Frustrated travellers in Europe due to heavy Snowfall

More than 48 hours afterwards the aftermost abundant snowfall, English authorities connected to attempt to get rid of build-ups of snow and ice.Embarrassed British admiral promised an analysis into the poor achievement of the carriage network, with Carriage Secretary Philip Hammond planning to abode Parliament about the failures, which included above delays on the Eurostar abuse account bond England to France and Belgium.Several hundred bodies queued patiently at Brussels' capital alternation base acquisitive to get a bench on the abutting Eurostar alternation to London.Most cartage accustomed the delays. 

"There is absolutely no point in accusatory I guess. You aloof accept to chain and see how it goes," said Julia Williams, aggravating to get aback to the UK with a baby adolescent and two ample bags.But afterwards several hours of cat-and-mouse in line, some tempers began to frey."We've been queuing for two hours, all got tickets, but now they're aloof jumping in this side. It's aloof not fair on those who've queued, I don't think," said one lady.At London's St. Pancras station, balked travellers stood in a band that anguish through the station, about the alfresco of the huge architecture and several hundred yards (metres) bottomward the road.

Many had been there for bristles hours or more, arranged up in coats, scarves, gloves and hats adjoin the chill, or clutching cups of tea and coffee from a Salvation Army van that had handed out 2-thousand hot drinks back afore dawn. 

The Eurostar website brash cartage captivation anxiety for after trains on Monday that the abuse account would not be able to board them because of the backlog."We accept alone been announced to already and that was bottomward in the basal bend and they said it was a four-hour wait, but it has been three hours now and we are not alike bisected way," said one passenger.The queues central the Eurostar terminal were filmed by day-tripper Pascal Spijkers, from Vlissingen, in the NetherlandsHe was declared to acknowledgment home on Sunday, approved on Monday, but is now appointed on an aboriginal alternation on Tuesday morning.

Forecasters accept said Britain was experiencing some of the best astringent winter acclimate in a century, with connected freezing temperatures and blast accumulations accepted after on Monday.

Last Lunar Eclips in 2010

Skygazers acquisitive to bolt the aftermost lunar concealment of 2010 on Tuesday morning best be accessible to break up backward (or deathwatch up actual early) to watch the abounding moon as it goes through a ambit of affecting blush changes.The December 21 lunar concealment is accepted to aftermost about three-and-a-half hours from its alpha as a fractional concealment at 1:33 a.m. ET to its accomplishment at 5:01 a.m. ET, according to NASA. The antecedent lunar concealment occurred June 26. 

During a lunar eclipse, the moon, the Earth, and the sun adjust so that the sun's application are cloistral from the moon. An concealment of the moon can alone booty abode if the moon is full, and alone if the moon passes through some allocation of Earth's shadow, which is composed of two cone-shaped parts, one nested central the other.The alpha of the absolute concealment is accepted about 2:41 a.m, back the absolute moon passes through the Earth's umbra, or close shadow, which blocks all absolute sunlight from extensive the moon. 

The moon will booty on a active red blush until 3:35 a.m., according to NASA.Before and afterwards the absolute eclipse, the moon will canyon through the penumbra, or alien arena of the Earth's shadow, area Earth blocks some of the sun's rays, but not all.The absolute accident is arresting from North America, Greenland and Iceland. Western Europe will see the alpha stages of the concealment afore moonset while western Asia will get the afterwards stages afterwards moonrise.

Mexico Oil Explosion from pipeline: Takes 27 life so far

At atomic 27 bodies were dead and 52 afflicted afterwards an oil activity exploded Sunday morning in axial Mexico, the state-run account bureau said.The account of the access in San Martin Texmelucan, in Puebla state, was beneath investigation, but basic letters acicular to the actionable abstraction of oil from the pipe, said Laura Gurza, coordinator for civilian aegis in Puebla. 

The bearings was beneath control, but the admeasurement of the accident was still actuality assessed, Civilian Aegis Director Miguel Angel Martinez said. The aqueduct belongs to Pemex, the state-owned oil monopoly.Some 32 houses were absent in the blast, and 80 others were partially damaged, Martinez said.Video from the arena showed a huge billowing bank of smoke that accomplished into the sky. Rescue workers could be apparent walking through the still-smoldering streets. 

Twelve of the bodies dead in the bang were children, the accompaniment account bureau Notimex reported, citation Gurza.About 5,000 adjacent association were evacuated, admiral said, and some 200 were in a government shelter.Oil annexation has been a assiduous botheration for Pemex, and has been on the acceleration back President Felipe Calderon took office. 

A Washington Post analysis begin that biologic cartels were added diversifying into added areas, including oil theft, to the tune of added than $1 billion in a two-year period.

The Royal family Wedding of Prince william and Kate's memorabilla is ON SALE

Four months afore the brace are to tie the knot, Prince William and Kate Middleton's bells memorabilia has gone on auction -- but after their faces on it.

The plate, tankard and bolus box are busy with an entwined "C" and "W" additional doves, white ribbons and hearts in silver, gold and grey. The design, which additionally carries the Prince's chaplet and the bells date, is the alone one which has been accustomed by the lovebirds, 'The Sun' reported."Collectors aren't absorbed in annihilation with no portrait. It's not about affection and beauty,anyone in their appropriate apperception would adopt article with Kate and Wills on. 

"I'm abiding they'll about-face abundant of them but in a brace of years these plates and mugs will be awash on 'eBay' for a atom of the price. People will end up not caring about them because they attending appealing dull," a memorabilia specialist was quoted as sayingBuckingham Palace has accustomed alone a few items to backpack the couple's picture, including biscuit tins and jars -- but alone accustomed assurance snaps by Mario Testino. There is additionally a 2011 calendar.St James's Palace said Wills and Kate, both 28, would be "more than content" if they are awash -- alike with their pictures. 

Nuala McGourty, administrator of retail for the Royal Collection, said: "We are appreciative to abide to best articles fabricated in England."

50th Test hundred from The SACHIN TENDULKAR "the king of cricket "

Milestones beggarly little to this little Indian but the gigantic cardinal of those beneath his belt, accomplish you angle up and acclaim everytime he achieves one and this time it was the much-awaited 50th Analysis aeon on Sunday at the Centurion adjoin South Africa that already afresh affected the apple to say, "Take a bow Sachin Tendulkar." 

the king of cricket

Little it may beggarly to the end-result of this Analysis that India has all but absent with one abounding day left, but the actuality that Sachin accomplished the much-awaited 50th hundred is a moment in which every candid lover will appetite to abide absorbed for a while, apathy what ability appear in the Test.

The candid apple was agilely cat-and-mouse for this. However, there was little achievement for it accident in a Analysis bout area India surrendered for 136 in its aboriginal innings and again spent added than a brace of canicule in the acreage watching a abundance of 620 runs actuality body up by South Africa. 

the king of cricket

Sachin strode into the average to booty bouncer in the additional innings on the aback of a 137-run aperture angle amid Virender Sehwag (63) and Gautam Gambhir (80). But the two had ancient in the amplitude of 33 runs, allurement Sachin and Rahul Dravid to booty India to stumps on day three after anymore damage, which the veterans auspiciously achieved.

But Sachin's absolute analysis came on Sunday, the penultimate day of the Test, back he stood through the morning affair watching India lose four wickets and bottomward appear an awkward defeat.

There was little hope, if any, from MS Dhoni - who himself is boilerplate abreast his best - on a catchy Centurion clue with Steyn and Co. animation bottomward his neck. 

the king of cricket

That Dhoni chose to counter-attack absolutely formed in favour of Tendulkar, who accustomed his skipper to booty allegation and himself kept plucking ones and twos with an casual boundary.

Sachin accomplished his bisected aeon agilely and while Dhoni kept sending the South African bowlers for cover, Sachin to calm a few boundaries extensive 80 at the achievement of tea.

By now, the account had advance beyond the apple that Sachin was abreast his 50th Analysis ton and the apprehension got every candid addict alert to their TV sets. 

the king of cricket

That India got abutting to extenuative the Analysis match, should rain arbitrate on the final day, absolutely took a backseat - that's the arduous abracadabra Sachin Tendulkar can create.

The maestro, though, was arena a workman-like innings while the apple waited with aside animation for the momentous achievement of the alarm and Sachin's bat.

Left-arm spinner Paul Harris activated Sachin the best and had a few abutting calls adjoin the little adept which were angry bottomward by the umpire.

Watching a bent Sachin, the Proteas skipper Graeme Smith brought the first-innings hero Morne Morkel in to annul the Indian fable with short-pitched stuff. But Sachin remained unperturbed, bath annihilation that was bowled short.

But it was annihilation beneath than a heart-stopping moment that on the abutting brawl from Harris, Sachin danced bottomward the clue and lofted the alpine spinner beeline over his arch for a six to ability 95.

A brace followed and Sachin was aloof three shy of the 50th Analysis hundred.

Another affecting moment followed back Dhoni about committed a suicide activity for a single. But a appropriate 'no' from Sachin prevented the seventh Indian wicket from activity down. Sachin, though, was still on 97! 

the king of cricket

Smith chose to alter Morkel with Dale Steyn in adjustment to get the adept out. Dhoni gave Sachin the strike, who again denticulate a brace to ability 99.

Finally the moment arrived. The abutting brawl was punched through the awning for a distinct by the adept for his 100th run, alternate with 12 fours and a six. And Sachin was continuing with easily aloft in the average of the ground, the aboriginal man on apple to account 50 centuries in Analysis cricket.

Director Blake Edwards Pass Away

Director Blake Edwards, best accepted for his "Pink Panther" blur alternation and "Breakfast at Tiffany's," has died at the age of 88, his arranger said Thursday.Edwards died Wednesday night of complications from pneumonia at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, arranger Gene Schwam said.Edwards' wife, extra Julie Andrews, and added associates of his ancestors were beside him, Schwam said.Edwards was the almsman of an honorary Oscar in 2003, back he was accepted for establishing himself as one of Hollywood's accurate ball auteurs. 

Edwards is accustomed with administering 46 titles, including "Victor Victoria," "S.O.B.," "10," and the Pink Panther series.Edwards was decidedly acclaimed for allowance actualize the role of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau in the Panther series, a appearance played by ball fable Peter Sellers in seven films.Edwards additionally wrote for the big and baby awning and acted in a cardinal of films, starting in 1942 with "Ten Gentleman from West Point." 

Edwards is said to accept become romantically complex with Julie Andrews afterwards she heard him already call her as actuality "so candied she apparently has violets amid her legs."They began dating afterwards she beatific Edwards a agglomeration of violets and a note. They after married, and they adopted two accouchement from Vietnam.Condolences to his family members, he will ever stand for his brilliant wit.

Wikileaks Orginator set free from British wardship

WikiLeaks architect Julian Assange has been appear on bond afterward a anniversary of acknowledged ball over his extradition.The 39-year-old Australian is angry moves to booty him to Sweden, area he faces sex-crimes allegations accompanying to a appointment there over the summer. 

He handed himself in to British badge aftermost anniversary but has been angry for bond since.Assange told journalists accumulated alfresco of London's High Court that he was admiring to aftertaste the beginning air and would abide to beef his innocence.Assange is now accepted to arch to a British country abode area he will accept to beam a alarm and abrasion a ecology device.

Official Reports: Terrorists planning to attack US and Europe

Iraqi authorities accept aggregate advice acquired from captured insurgents who affirmation al Qaeda is planning suicide attacks in the United States and Europe during the Christmas anniversary season, according to a U.S. official.The official said the blackmail address is actuality taken seriously, but there is no intelligence advertence there is a specific or aboveboard blackmail adjoin the U.S. homeland. But the official added al Qaeda in Iraq charcoal a alarming force. 

The official adumbrated the United States charcoal acute abnormally during the holidays in ablaze of what happened aftermost Christmas, a advertence to the bootless attack to draft up an aeroplane over Detroit.Another US official said, "we are attractive closely" at the advice advancing from Iraq.

Talk on US: Unsuccessful Missile Trial

A analysis of the United States' alone all-embracing missile aegis arrangement bootless Wednesday -- the additional abortion this year in two tries.The Pentagon's Missile Aegis Bureau said both the intermediate-range ballistic missile ambition and the all-embracing interceptor missile launched successfully, alarm and sensors formed appropriately and the "kill vehicle" deployed. But the "kill vehicle" didn't hit the target."Program admiral will conduct an all-encompassing analysis to actuate the account of the abortion to ambush the target," the bureau said. "The abutting flight analysis will be bent afterwards identification of the account of the failure.'' The aftermost test, in January, bootless because of a botheration with the sea-based X-band radar, the bureau said. 

The X-band alarm sits aloft a adapted amphibian oil belvedere and provides advice about admission missiles so aggressive admiral can barrage a response.In both Wednesday's analysis and the analysis launched beforehand this year, the ambition missile launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the interceptor launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.  The $100 billion missile absorber affairs has had abundant problems. In December 2008, an interceptor launched from Vandenburg "killed" a ambition launched from Kodiak, Alaska. But the analysis wasn't able to actuate a key aspect -- whether the interceptor could acquaint the aberration amid a allurement and a absolute missile -- because the allurement bootless to launch. 

Riki Ellison, administrator and architect of the Missile Aegis Advocacy Alliance, a detached alignment that advocates for the deployment of missile aegis systems, said the abortion "is a amazing setback," acquainted three above analysis failures in the accomplished two years.Ellison said abounding of the country's interceptors are about identical to the one that bootless Wednesday, and he questioned the military's aplomb in the ground-based arrangement deployed in Alaska and California.So far, the Aegis Department has accounted eight of the program's 15 tests successful.

 

Talk on Plane Crash

A baby even comatose in the Himalayan foothills of alien east Nepal, killing all 22 bodies onboard, an official said on Thursday.The Twin Otter aircraft, operated by Tara Air amid Lamidanda and basic Kathmandu, had absent acquaintance anon afterwards ascent on Wednesday from the aerial aerodrome and apparently ploughed into the 9,000-feet-high hill, admiral said."The even hit the acropolis by nose. It has burst into pieces. There are no survivors," Bimlesh Lal Karna, an airport official in Kathmandu said.

The cartage were pilgrims abiding from a altar in Lamidanda in Khotang district, 162 kilometres (101 miles) east of Kathmandu, and acceptable included one greenhorn and several Bhutanese refugees active in Nepal, commune ambassador Keshav Acharya said.The allegiance of the adopted commuter was unknown.Small aircraft aerial to alien and arenaceous airstrips in Nepal is accepted modes of carriage in the country's aerial regions that abridgement able anchorage and can be accomplished alone on foot.Fourteen bodies including six foreigners were dead in an air blast in August in backing acclimate abreast Kathmandu.

Ice Volcano seen in Saturn Moon

Scientists said Tuesday they accept begin the best affirmation yet of ice volcanoes on Saturn's behemothic moon Titan. Unlike volcanoes on Earth, such a abundance on Titan may barf ice and hydrocarbons instead of aqueous lava."We assuredly accept some affidavit that Titan is an alive world," said geophysicist Randolph Kirk of the U.S. Geological Survey, who presented the findings.The most recent affirmation comes from the all-embracing Cassini spacecraft, which spied two peaks over 3,000 anxiety alpine and what looked like old agitable flows. Advisers said the landforms resembled Mount Etna in Italy or Laki abundance in Iceland.There's no assurance of agitable action on Titan, admitting scientists are befitting watch. 

It's not the aboriginal time that advisers accept doubtable Titan may authority icy volcanoes. A antecedent analysis in 2005 by the Cassini aircraft of a abeyant ice abundance angry out to be amiss aloft added study.Kirk, who acclimated 3-D mapping to abstraction Titan's acreage features, said the affirmation was stronger this time around. Results were presented at the American Geophysical Union affair in San Francisco.Planetary scientist Jeffrey Kargel of the University of Arizona, who was not complex in the discovery, said the abstracts was compelling. Kargel acclaimed that unless there's a mission to accompany aback samples, scientists may never apperceive what the flows are fabricated of. 

Titan is one of the few bodies in the solar arrangement with a blubbery atmosphere fabricated up of nitrogen and methane. The antecedent of methane charcoal a mystery. The actuality of volcanoes may advice explain how the moon got its blurred atmosphere.Launched in 1997, Cassini entered apogee about Saturn in 2004 to abstraction its rings and abounding moons including its largest, Titan. The mission is a activity of NASA the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.

Is Stem Cell Transplant cure HIV?

On the heels of World AIDS Day comes a beauteous medical breakthrough: Doctors accept an HIV-positive man who underwent a axis corpuscle displace has been convalescent as a aftereffect of the procedure.Timothy Ray Brown, additionally accepted as the "Berlin Patient," accustomed the displace in 2007 as allotment of a diffuse analysis advance for leukemia. His doctors afresh appear a address in the account Blood acknowledging that the after-effects of all-encompassing testing "strongly advance that cure of HIV infection has been achieved."Brown's case paves a aisle for amalgam a abiding cure for HIV through genetically-engineered axis cells. 

Last week, Time called addition AIDS-related analysis to its account of the Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2010. Recent studies appearance that advantageous individuals who booty antiretrovirals, anesthetic frequently assigned for alleviative HIV, can abate their accident of application the ache by up to 73 percent.While these developments by no agency prove a cure for the virus has been found, they can absolutely accommodate achievement for the added than 33 actor bodies active with HIV worldwide. 

Alongside such findings, all-around efforts to action the catching accept accelerated as of late, with fresh initiatives arising in the Philippines and South Africa this week.

Bangladesh factory fired;Twenty five dead

Fire official Golam Mostafa said the bonfire started in a 10-story branch endemic by bounded business behemothic Hameem Group in the Ashulia automated zone, aloof alfresco Dhaka. It was not anon bright what acquired the blaze.Local announcer Rafiqul Islam told The Associated Press by buzz from the arena he saw at atomic 25 bodies actuality loaded assimilate ambulances

Diganta television appear at atomic 20 bodies died and added than 100 were injured. ATN News said rescuers recovered at atomic 11 bodies.Monir Hossain, addition announcer on the scene, said the bonfire bankrupt out on the two high floors during cafeteria break. A aboideau on a stairwell was locked, accoutrement bodies inside, he quoted assemblage as saying.Islam said some 13,000 bodies assignment at the branch anniversary day, admitting best were alfresco affairs cafeteria back the bonfire started. Officials predicted the afterlife assessment would rise, he said. 

Mostafa said army soldiers abutting the accomplishment operation.Bangladesh has about 4,000 apparel factories that consign added than $10 billion account of articles a year, mainly to the United States and Europe.Recent protests by low-paid apparel workers accept absorbed the country. Workers ambitious the accomplishing of a fresh minimum allowance clashed with badge at an automated area in southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, abrogation up to three bodies asleep and 100 hurt.