Higgs particle is a bog Standard Model boson, say scientists

New

LHC data indicate the Higgs boson is unlikely to pave the way for new insights into the nature

scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider have found no evidence that the new particle discovered earlier this year is anything but simple - and most annoying -. Higgs Variety

staff at CERN, the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, which was held in July, after discovering what appeared to be elusive Higgs boson in the rubble of dozens of collisions at high energy in the big machine.

At this time, preliminary results from two main experiments, ATLAS and CMS, suggested that the particle could be more exciting than the singular beast originally described in the equations of nearly 50 years. A more exotic Higgs could pave the way to a new understanding of the profound nature.

But new data released by both teams during a conference in Kyoto Today program, which - at least so far - there is nothing strange in the behavior of the particle. The results are not completely exclude more exotic Higgs, however. Some versions are so similar to the Higgs boson of the standard model that could take years to identify.

"The particle is always there and is definitely remain consistent with the standard model," said Joe Incandela, CMS team leader detector.

The Higgs particle was first postulated in 1964 as a single entity, whose existence reveals an invisible field that propagates through space and gives mass to fundamental particles, including the building blocks of the base material.

• But some theories beyond the Standard Model - a mathematical framework that describes the known particles and their interactions - Call for families of Higgs particles, where each brother plays a role in the transmission of mass particles

different types of Higgs particles is generally expected from different signatures on the LHC detectors giants, although in some cases, these companies differ only subtly.

One of the reasons for the Higgs boson has taken over two decades to find out who is unstable is spectacular. Once the Higgs boson is established, decays more familiar particles such as quarks, electrons and photons. Scientists have sought an excess of these particles, implying that the Higgs boson has been created.

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Manchester City aim high, sign low

Roberto Mancini has failed to break into the transfer market these days

THOSE WHO WANTED

Robin van Persie

went to Man Utd

Roberto Mancini said his club started "working three or four months before announcing four days before joining United," Van Persie is not our player. "Arsene Wenger revealed last week that Van Persie rejected £ 300,000 a week.

Daniele De Rossi stayed in Rome

city came to negotiate with the agent of Rossi in a case before the £ 30m midfielder retirement. "I stay here, I have never asked anyone to leave," said 29-year-old, who has spent his entire career in Rome. The deal could be resurrected in January.

Eden Hazard was at Chelsea The player visited Manchester and was even around homes possible, but finally opted for Chelsea after a long process based decision on Twitter, apparently after being disappointed by the contract offer from the City.

Javi Martinez went to Bayern Munich Martinez moved to Bayern Munich after meeting his release clause of ? 40 million, Athletic Bilbao. Mancini acknowledged that although the city had "talked with Martinez's club", "the cost is too high, too high for me."

Theo Walcott was Arsenal

• Walcott refusal to extend his contract with Arsenal led to speculation that he would leave, but ended no agreement was completed in August. City still believed to be interested, with Edin Dzeko may get away.

... Beings and having

Javi Garcia Benfica £ 16m
a defensive midfielder who started then stalled at Real Madrid, Garcia recently returned from a month on muscle injury. The Spaniard, who can also play in central defense, just bought a purple pool table with your name and team number on it.

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Breastfeeding baby doll: creepy or groundbreaking?

Obama 'revenge' comment referred to Romney 'scare tactics'

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In Missouri Senate race, new Akin ad features rape survivor

Todd Akin

Mitt Romney renews promise to label China a currency manipulator

United States

lose the trade war with China in silence, said Republican candidate for the discussion of television as experts warn against retaliation

Mitt Romney has renewed its commitment to label China a currency manipulator "from day one" in the last presidential debate, arguing that the United States lost a trade war in silence with the second economy largest in the world.

Experts have warned that such a move could backfire by provoking retaliation.

Overall, the Republican candidate has taken a softer stance in Beijing, saying Tuesdaynight viewers: "We can be a partner with China, it does not take an opponent in any manner whatsoever . "

But when asked if he was formally accused China of manipulating the yuan and triggered a trade war, replied: "There is going on right now, we do not know c is silence .. And winning. "

"We must say to our friend in China ... you can continue to maintain the value of its currency, the theft of our intellectual property, counterfeit products are sold worldwide, including the United States States. "

United States

not qualified to China a currency manipulator since 1994, although successive administrations have considered doing. Some observers doubt that Romney is moving forward.

Zhiwu Chen

, professor of finance at the Yale School of Management, said in his widely followed Sina Weibo account: "Romney can not say anything before he became president, but you can tell."

The value of the Renminbi against the U.S. dollar has increased by about 11% - after adjusting for inflation - since Barack Obama took office. Economist Paul Krugman, who has repeatedly called to pressure China on the yuan in the past, refers to its evaluation as "a problem whose time has passed" in a blog post Monday.

• labeling China a currency manipulator would be largely symbolic move - which requires only negotiations between countries - and Romney has not committed to following specific measures such as the imposition of customs
"This could cause a reaction. Suffice it to say that he was a manipulator drawing an angry reaction from the press, but I do not [necessarily] have an impact much more than that" said Alistair Thornton, China economist at IHS Global Insight.

Richard Bush III The Brookings Institution, wrote this week that the worst trade war slows growth and rising unemployment in both countries and rising inflation and interest rates United States.

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Drugs in cycling: it's not only Lance Armstrong who has questions to answer | Observer editorial

For years, the Tour de France was taking medication. He forced the others to be complicit in the fraud. And yet, your sponsor is next

Lance Armstrong was a magnificent performance. To orchestrate across your subterfuge and falsehood always such a level of excellence for more than a decade - lives in press conferences, on television, in books, even in court - was a performance worthy of a champ. A liar champion.

But lying is a part of the artillery Armstrong made to keep up the deception and denying he used performance-enhancing drugs when he went trick seven wins in the Tour de France.

Deception describes in meticulous detail and shocking hundreds of pages (USADA) Report of the United States Anti-Doping Agency last week. Based on dozens of interviews, including with former teammates, the report accuses Armstrong and his managers to be "involved in a massive drug use in the long term, to cover their tracks, intimidate witnesses, tarnish reputations, lying hearing and the press and do whatever was necessary to hide the truth. "

Armstrong not only medication: the killer was mafia in professional cycling small displacement relentlessly against anyone who threatens to expose him and his staff. There intimidated and threatened teammates, journalists and other cyclists and officials.

Ask Emma O'Reilly, a masseuse in the U.S. team Armstrong Postal Service as a leader. I had a ringside seat and looked and the race team. She used makeup to cover the bruises syringes Armstrong. She helped carry the packets of drugs and delivered in person to Armstrong. At one point, he turned to her and said. "Now, Emma, ??you know enough to take down"

few years later, O'Reilly has contributed to a book in which he describes what he saw. Armstrong's legal team racing. She was taken to court. Armstrong has publicly called "an alcoholic and a prostitute." He shut up. As she says: "Lance tried to make my life hell was bullying, harassment and stress.".

The most striking aspect of the report can be used not what he speaks of "doping-free sport program most sophisticated ever seen," but he speaks of revenge, untruthful, vicious at the heart of this fraud. Armstrong not only attack with vigor mountains, attacked someone who threatened to reveal the truth of his doping. seems to be less a cyclist, more like a psychopath.

And this can not be the end of the story of Armstrong. The U.S. Attorney's Office - Which dropped an investigation into his alleged doping earlier this year - is very likely to be interested in the report of the USADA, especially when it is alleged that Mr. Armstrong perjury during seven jurors to make a statement before a court in Dallas in 2005.

• Armstrong, like most tyrants, is also a coward. That is why we decided not to participate in any of the stacked and powerful in the report of the USADA. If the prosecutor's office of the United States is called, it will not be an option open to him.
• But there are other questions. No less important in the cycling world governing body, the UCI. Under his supervision, Armstrong and his teammates damaged and contaminated sport that is supposed to oversee. But they are not. Its oversight was extreme, terrible, terrible.

In 2005, when the

Team

Journal

fled retail 1999 Armstrong positive test, the UCI has conducted an "investigation" in which Armstrong was acquitted. Dick Pound, chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, said that the report of the UCI was "so lacking in professionalism and objectivity that it borders on the ridiculous."
Why ICU was so useless? As one journalist noted cycling governing body last week "continuously, either through naivety, incompetence or complicity, cache the worst excesses of the decade of doping." What was - naivety, incompetence or complicity? This is the same organization that has accepted Armstrong $ 125,000 to help fund UCI anti-doping research. As he had laughed. You could not make peace. Only Armstrong did - and bought more intensive care

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Henry VIII's "crowne of golde" to go on show in UK

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Obama campaign: Romney to the right of George Bush on foreign policy

presidential advisers claim Romney has not withstood the test of commander and did not provide details on major issues

Campaign

team Barack Obama has accused Mitt Romney of wanting to follow the same foreign policy of George Bush led the United States wars.

Campaign

president said Republican presidential candidate is positioned to the right of Bush foreign policy speech by Romney to do today.

Excerpts

Romney's speech were released on Sunday and explained his position mainly in the Middle East, prompting allegations that have been repeatedly changing his line in Libya, Syria, the Palestinian territories and Iran.

In Syria, Romney and his team have offered opposing views on how much or how little the United States must be involved. Unlike the Obama administration, which has so far resisted allowing rebels receive weapons capable of fighting against aircraft, helicopters and tanks, Romney proposes that U.S. allies in the Middle East abolish these restrictions and begin supplying weapons to the rebels who were requested.

Campaign

Obama released an ad saying Romney had failed the test of commander in chief, citing his accident-prone visiting Britain, Israel and Poland in the summer and several comments from . The announcement said: "If this is the way it manages the world now, imagine what you could do as President Romney."

Team

Obama issued a "memo" - actually a press release - from two of his foreign policy advisors, Michele Flournoy and Colin Kahl, saying Romney speech is an attempt to boost his foreign policy, but that "does not change the fact that he has repeatedly taken positions outside the mainstream and often up to George Bush." ??

The couple added: "This is not surprising given that Romney is advised by the same people who were responsible for some of the worst foreign policy failures in American history, including war in Iraq and now he wants. us back to the same thing with us-or-against-us approach that got us into wars without us out. "

Kahl and Flournoy, said Romney had so far failed to provide details on key foreign policy issues, like what he would do differently from Obama face persecution alleged by Iran a nuclear weapons capability.

• A spokesman for the Obama campaign, Jen Psaki said. "We will not take lessons from someone who has been an absolute disaster in foreign policy every time he dips his toe in the waters of foreign policy"
This will be the seventh Romney foreign policy speech, with most of the foregoing being heavily criticized for the lack of content.

On CNN Monday morning news anchor Soledad O'Brien engaged in a series of exchanges with the media irritable Romney spokeswoman, Tara Wall, above its position in the territories Palestinians. The secret video released last month by a private speech in Florida, Romney was dismissive of the possibility of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian issue, but excerpts from the speech he will deliver later in Virginia, spoke of the need of an independent Palestinian state. In the covert video, Romney said that Palestinians were not interested in the search for peace and an independent Palestine could be used by Iran as a launching pad for attacks against Israel.

wall O'Brien asked which of the two positions defended Romney, the establishment of a Palestinian state or skepticism about the prospect.

Wall replied that Mr. Obama had appeared on an entertainment program rather than comply with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York last month.

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Ed Miliband calls for gay marriage equality

said Labour Party is likely to impose three lines whip to instruct their representatives to support the right of gay marriage

churches and other religious institutions should be free to hold gay marriage, Ed Miliband said he promised "unconditional" labor reform.

Labour leader promised to pressure the government to move forward with the process to legislate for gay marriage as he added his voice to the campaign Out4Marriage in a video released Thursday.

sources of labor

have said, it is very likely that the party will require a vote of three to instruct their representatives to support the right of gay marriage, unlike David Cameron, who promised a free vote because of divisions among its members. The Liberal Democrats should be whipped to vote in favor of the introduction of gay marriage, which is the political party.

The government has launched a formal consultation on civil marriage for same-sex couples in England and Wales at the beginning of this year Cameron promised to law before the next general election in 2015.

But in the video, Miliband went further to say that the ministers of religious groups wishing to host gay wedding services should be able to.
• "We will push the government to move forward with the process to legislate for marriage equality, and we will tell them where religious groups want to give the possibility for same-sex couples and heterosexual couples should be able to.

"We have come a long way over the rights of gays and lesbians in the past two decades - civil associations, the age of consent, a variety of other things - but I know I must go ahead

"I know that marriage equality is a very, very important to ensure equality before the law, equality in our culture that is so important, and as a sign that we are a country modern kind of country we believe in. "

Benjamin Cohen thanked the support of Out4Marriage Miliband for the extension of the law of England and Wales to meet the religious ceremonies too - a move opposed by the Church of England and Roman Catholic Church
"There are many homosexual couples faith and many religious groups embracing gay, it is just that religious groups who wish to conduct same-sex marriages are allowed to do under the law, "he said.

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Venezuela's Capriles goes on offensive after graft accusations

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Syria's rebels hold Aleppo neighborhoods

Syrian tanks and artillery pounded rebel in shopping districts of Aleppo on Sunday to try to regain control that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad accuses Saudi regional powers Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to try to destroy the country.

Indian fisherman: No warning before Gulf shooting

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Harry Redknapp and Fabio Capello head Russia's coaching wish-list

. Ambitious 13-man list also includes Pep Guardiola Barcelona

. Dick Advocaat

resigns after Euro 2012 campaign bad

Harry Redknapp and Fabio Capello were included in a wish list of candidates to be the new director of Russia.

The Russian Football Union (RFU) has launched an ambitious man 13 list, which also includes the former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola, which seeks to replace Dick Advocaat.

Advocaat announced before the disappointing Euro 2012 campaign in Russia, unable to reach the knockout stages, which would move to PSV Eindhoven for next season.

• Russia The list includes the names of high-level termination Capello, who was a free agent since leaving his post in England earlier this year, and Redknapp, who was shot by Tottenham Hotspur last month, despite guiding them to fourth place in the Premier League last season.
Capello has also been linked with big spending Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala whose former director, Yuri Krasnozhan, was one of seven Russian names on the list.

Other names on the list include Rafael Benitez, unemployed since leaving Inter in December 2010, and Italy win the World Cup manager Marcello Lippi.

The RFU statement read: "The Russian Football Union has officially informed that the organization plans to consult, in full compliance with the regulations of FIFA and UEFA, the appointment of technical director Russian National with the following experts: Rafael Benitez, Anatoliy Byshovets, Marcelo Bielsa, Valeriy Gazzaev, Josep Guardiola, Fabio Capello, Andrey Kobelev, Yury Krasnozhan, Marcello Lippi, Nepomnyashchy Valéry, Nikolai Pisarev, Harry Redknapp, Yuri Semin "

Guardiola has repeatedly said it would take a year off after choosing not to renew his contract of Barcelona.

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Paul Mahoney is UK frontrunner for human rights court

European Court of Human Rights led privileged first vote for the election of British judge in Strasbourg

An insider Strasbourg leading the race to be the next judge of the United Kingdom before the European Court of Human Rights.

Paul Mahoney, 65, who was a director and secretary for over 30 years, has taken a leading position after the first ballot inconclusive.

None of the three candidates

Colombia - Mahoney, Ben Emmerson QC Raquel Agnello QC or -. Won an absolute majority of votes in the first ballot among the members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Results released Tuesday showed Mahoney had 103 votes, Emmerson Agnello 61 and 45. Voting will resume on Wednesday morning when a "relative majority" simply select the winner.

• Mahoney, Oxford University-educated lawyer, he taught law at the University of London for six years before playing briefly in the bar in London in the 1970s.

has spent most of his legal career in Europe working in the administration of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, where he was then Assistant Secretary from 1995 to 2005 and later first president of the European Commission Union Public Service Tribunal.

age is considered a factor against his candidacy to the European Court of Human Rights, where judges must retire at 70 - which means that Mahoney would be half Throughout his nine-year term as required by the resignation.

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Syria says ready to evacuate besieged families

government

Lambert on verge of Aston Villa job

. Norwich stuns Lambert resignation after several days of negotiations

. Malky Mackay and Steve Bruce as part of Norwich

Paul Lambert of Norwich City market to become the manager of Aston Villa. The 42-year-old's resignation was not accepted by Villa Norwich, but categorically means that they have their man and not expect to have to pay compensation.

With little room to haggle, go as Lambert's successor Alex McLeish at Villa Park should be announced soon. Wigan Roberto Martinez had been a candidate, but forgotten once Villa approached its main objective.

Out

Norwich Lambert quits unexpectedly find Cardiff manager Malky Mackay should be under another former player canary, Steve Bruce.

The club fought to keep Lambert and went to publish a statement that he regretted that he had asked to leave, but praised his work.

It read: .. "The club regrets to confirm that Paul Lambert has submitted his resignation did not accept his resignation, while talks with another club occur However, whatever happens, we wish to express our sincere gratitude for all Paul did the club over the last three seasons fantastic. "
Lambert Norwich against League One after being Colchester in August 2009, and immediately after the Premier League, where he finished 12th honorable one.

"Conversations with Paul in recent days have been very professional and friendly," the statement said. "Paul has already earned its place in the history of Norwich and, whatever happens, you always have a warm welcome at Carrow Road. When Paul joined us in August 2009, we were in position 66 in the football pyramid English and the club was on the brink of financial collapse.

"Today, we are a Premier League club on a sound financial basis and with a stadium filled to capacity."
probably Lambert backstage staff - assistant Ian Culverhouse, the former defender of Norwich, and the head of football operations Gary Karsa -. We will continue to Villa Park

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Egypt: Islamist, Mubarak's ex-premier in runoff

Russia chides ally Syria over massacre of 108

Abu Qatada denied bail due to pressure of Olympics on security forces

Judge rules Islamic cleric who must remain in prison until the appeal against deportation to Jordan is heard

Abu Qatada deportation Islamist cleric against Jordan as a threat to the national security of the United Kingdom, has been refused bail after a judge said the security services and Intelligence not have the resources to cope with a possible escape attempt by him during the Olympics.

Mitting

judge, sitting at the Special Commission of Immigration Appeals (SIAC) in London, warned of "threats from Al-Qaeda" franchises Qatada and spring, including a Spanish judge described as Osama bin Laden right-hand man in Europe.

Qatada, held in Belmarsh high security prison, was not in court to hear the judge's decision that keeps in custody was therefore "necessary and proportionate". Mitting said "sinister" elements "spoke vehemently, giving rise to concerns ... to give effective support to escape." He stated that no threat Qatada could be blamed, but the court "can not ignore".

set the date for the appeal against the deportation of Qatada to October 8, Mitting indicated the possibility that the case is resolved after a period of time "unfortunate", and the obvious determination of the Secretary of Interior to deport him, meant the 51-year-old was a greater risk of theft before.

• you agree with the statement of Robin Tam, counsel for the Minister of the Interior, if leaking Qatada bail, "whether resources should be diverted [Olympics] to find or find even given a lower priority should be the case. "

through Qatada, Edward Fitzgerald argued that the cleric, who spent nearly seven years in prison, he was entitled to be released on bail because there was no possibility of his imminent expulsion and flight risk, he was not increased. Fitzgerald said it was "inevitable" that the case could continue beyond mid to late November, when Mitting said was likely to decide on an appeal against the expulsion, the two parties can appeal s if they lost. The possibility of returning Qatada European courts if the judgment goes against him.

Mitting expressed frustration with the pace of the case, recognizing that the cleric had been in prison for a "special" time

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Syrian opposition accepts leader's resignation

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Syrian opposition leaders urge election boycott

Exclusive: France would not support oil release under Hollande

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Syrian forces fire on anti-regime protesters

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US job market recovery stalled in March, halting streak of major gains

Employers added only 120,000

jobs last month, well below estimates, the unemployment rate back to 8.2%

Recovering U.S. job market stagnated in March, adding only 120,000 jobs, according to the Labor Department, well below the figures for most economists predict summer.

United States

227,000 jobs added in February, and economists expect that this would be the fourth consecutive month that the economy has created over 200,000 jobs. Before the release of economists in a Bloomberg News payroll survey forecast to increase by 205,000 in March.

fall will be disappointing for President Barack Obama, who has put the economic recovery at the heart of his reelection campaign.

The unemployment rate, which is obtained by a separate survey of U.S. households, marked by a tenth of a percentage point to 8.2%, but the decline is partly due to the less Americans search of work.

The figures come as a surprise after yesterday's news that the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to a minimum of four years.

But the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, has warned for some time that the U.S. economic recovery remains fragile. Last month, said the recovery in the labor market may be "out of sync" with the global economy.

• employment growth has been driven by private companies, which added 121,000 jobs in March, the Labor Department. The government will cut 1,000 jobs.
• David Semmens, an economist at Standard Chartered United States, said that the figure is a reminder that "the United States is not fully operational again." He said that the figures had took everyone by surprise. Economists estimate were lower before the figures were released was 175,000, he said. Despite the drop in unemployment was negative. "It's just people who leave the work, which is not really a good thing, "he said.

Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate is expected this week accused President damage the U.S. economy to hide their true intentions of voters. "With all the challenges facing the country, this is not the time for hiding and hunting campaign of President Obama," he said.

The unemployment rate fell again, but still a problem for Obama. It was 7.8% when he took office in January 2009 and reached 10% after nine months. It has now fallen to 8.3%, its lowest level in three years, but no president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt was re-elected with unemployment over 7.2%.

investors will have to wait until Monday to respond to new. U.S. stock markets were closed Friday for Easter and Passover.

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Syria says it won't be first to lay down arms

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Battles in Syria as Russia warns of 'last chance'

Syrian forces attacked the flashpoint

North Korea diplomacy picks up in China (Reuters)

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North Korea military strategy superior, says think-tank (Reuters)

Okla. authorities charge man in deaths of 2 girls (AP)

Myanmar minorities suffer abuses despite reforms (AP)

Afghan Taliban 'have loya jirga security plan'

Afghan Government rejects the claim, saying "false" are documents Taliban attempt to intimidate participants in conversations

The Afghan Taliban say they have acquired security plans for the next national meeting, a request that the government has dismissed as a ploy to intimidate participants.

The Taliban boasted on its website that it had obtained maps and documents to enable them to launch precision attacks on traditional Afghan Loya Jirga, or Grand Assembly, to be held this month in the capital. The petition alleged that he obtained the security plans insurgents embedded within the government.

Previously, the Taliban has warned that his fighters should focus on each person involved in the jirga, which was held to discuss the future of the United States in Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement and reconciliation efforts with the Taliban.

a copy of the message to the Taliban was released Sunday night by SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. organization that monitors extremist websites.

Afghan officials have strongly rejected the request. "It is not our plan," said a spokesman for the intelligence service, Latifullah Mashal on Monday. "The plan that we have developed - and we have seen - is 100% different from that which was sent to the media."

He said the Afghan security forces have arrested insurgents trying to infiltrate the capital and import explosives. "The security plan that we have developed has been very successful so far are based on a kind of psy-ops," said Mashal. "They send messages to warn people not to take part and they send fake project safety plans for the media."

• Loya
• last, in June 2010, the Taliban fired rockets and gunfire interrupted the opening speech of President Hamid Karzai.

Taliban fighters wearing suicide vests fired at the tent now 1,500 dignitaries, lawmakers and civil society activists, triggering a battle with security forces that killed at least two militants. Three civilians, but no delegates, were wounded.

In addition, the U.S. military said a man captured during an operation in eastern Afghanistan nearly three weeks died in police custody.
Central Command said the detainee had been receiving medical care since he was taken Oct. 25 in Kunar province. No details on their injuries or illnesses. He was detained in a detention center in Bagram, north of Kabul airport nearby.

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Republican candidate hit by third allegation of harassing women

Herman Cain, who led the polls for the presidential nomination, accused of "inappropriate behavior" towards former employee

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has suffered another setback Wednesday when a third woman complained about his alleged behavior towards female staff.

The indictment follows a new full day in which Cain, trying to move forward with a program of planned campaign as usual, showed signs of stress , closer to losing his cool with reporters chasing pack.

Although the latest opinion poll is 30%, well ahead of his nearest rival, Mitt Romney, 23%, in the battle for the presidential nomination of the party, was taken primarily front row had developed. There is no evidence yet whether support for him began to flow.

But the incessant drip of revelations about alleged sexual harassment and failure to maintain a single version of events completely stopped campaign. He had hoped to spend three days in the Washington DC area to get his message on jobs, health and other issues.

however, was harassed by journalists Politico reported Sunday on complaints of two women on their behavior while working at the National Restaurant Association, where he was a Managing Director in late 1990. Apparently reached financial settlements in exchange for signing confidentiality agreements.

A third employee said the former Associated Press on Wednesday that he had also examined a complaint of what she described as aggressive behavior and suspected adverse reactions. The employee, who requested anonymity, saying he feared reprisals, said that Cain had invited him to his apartment outside of business hours.

The issue is unlikely to die quickly. A lawyer for one of the first two women, Joel Bennett, was to confer with his client on the night of Wednesday to discuss the submission of a request from the Restaurant Association to release her promise of silence. Bennett said his client did not agree with Cain story.

• The woman may not be willing to give up their status and direct anonymous Bennett not follow. But if you do, Cain will face a dilemma.
will be under pressure to agree to raise the partnership agreement that forces women to remain silent. So far he has refused to say whether he is ready to do so.

After a campaign event in Alexandria, Virginia on Wednesday, a major militant generally become reporters, telling them not to bother asking about the sexual allegations. When a reporter shouted a question, Cain said: "What did I say Sorry Sorry?"..

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Campaign reports show disparity among GOP (AP)

Iranian lashed 74 times for 'insult' to Ahmadinejad

Peyman Aref is whipped activist

hours before the release of a year in prison "unprecedented" punishment

An Iranian student activist has been lashed 74 times for insulting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Peyman Aref

, a political science student at Tehran University, was sentenced in March 2010 to a year in prison after being convicted of propaganda against the regime of speaking to foreign media.

Aref, who was arrested following the disputed presidential elections in Iran in 2009, was also sentenced to 74 lashes for writing an "insulting" letter to Ahmadinejad and given the lifetime ban from exercising journalism or membership of a political party.

his sentence ended Sunday, but a few hours before his departure from Evin prison in Tehran, Aref was told the lashing would be carried out.

A masked prison guard carried out the lashing in presence of Aref woman and Iranian judiciary officials. News referral came just weeks after Somayeh Tohidlou, Iranian blogger and activist, former presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, was sentenced to a "symbolic" lashing for the same crime.

Unlike Tohidlou symbolic punishment - designed to humiliate rather than harm - Aref was indeed whipped. Pictures taken after his release show his bloodied back covered in injuries.

• "tie people sentenced to various charges, called alcohol is common in Iran but political activists are often plagued by accusations that ambiguous desecrating Islam or prophets," an Iranian journalist based in Tehran who asked not to be identified. "Aref for insulting Ahmadinejad tie is shocking and unprecedented."

In a letter to the president during his election campaign in 2009, Aref attacked Ahmadinejad for his crackdown against students who were politically active in college and was forbidden to continue their studies.

College students and the students who had criticized the government were given to three "penalty points", according to the potential threat was said. Aref was one of the "favorites" of three graduate students who are not allowed to continue their studies. About 150 were crushed.

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