Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Assistant RCMP Commis-sioner James Malizia told re-porters the suspects "werereceiving support from Al-Qaeda elements located inIran" but added: "There's noindication that these attackswere state-sponsored."

Malizia said the suspectsare "not Canadian citizens" butdeclined to reveal their nation-alities. One of the two menlived in Montreal for severalyears, he added, without say-ing which one.

OTTAWA (AFP) - Two foreignnationals have been arrested inCanada in connection withwhat federal police said yesterday was a plot backed by Al-Qaeda to derail a passengertrain in the Toronto area. Abail hearing was set for today.

Charges filed against thetwo include conspiring to carryout an attack and conspiringwith a terrorist group to mur-der persons, though very fewdetails about the plot were re-vealed.

CARACAS (AFP) - Venezuelayesterday threatened to takemeasures affecting energy andtrade if the United States re-sorts to sanctions in a row overthe disputed presidential elec-tion in Caracas earlier thismonth.

The warning came amid apolitical crisis in Venezuelaover opposition demands for arecount of April 14 election re-turns that gave President Nico-las Maduro a narrow win toreplace the late Hugo Chavez.

The United States importssome 900,000 barrels of oil aday from Venezuela, whichproduces between 2.3 millionand three million barrels a day.

Main Street and the promise ofTram transport for tourists, thata host of tourists will again bevisiting the Main Street

He has sat down with archi-tects to come up with a solu-tion for the first floor of theirbuilding. Architects haveworked on a beautiful entrancethrough which when one en-ters it will not be visible thatthe building has changed inany way. They will create a sit-ting area for those tired fromshopping as well as the returnstop of the Tram. There will beshaded areas, an interactivefountain and places to sit. Thesite will be named in honor ofthe man who years ago gavehandouts to the poor in histruck as he moved through thebarrios, namely....Plaza NickyHabibe!

from Miami.However, over the years

modern shopping malls sprangup between the main street andthe Pier where the cruise shipsdocked. Tourists no longer hadthe need to walk in the hot sunto get to the Main street. Withthe growth of tourism, busi-nesses grew but also facedfierce competition. The MainStreet deteriorated slowly butsurely. The intention today,however, is to bring the gloryback to the Main Street. ATram is expected to bringtourists back into the MainStreet.

Habibe's cousin, RaoulAmundaray has decided torenovate the old Habibe buil -ding located at the end of themain street. He believes thatwith the renovations in the

Eighty years ago GrandfatherNicky Habibe was one of ourgreat commercial pioneers. In1936 he built the first super-market of Aruba on the MainStreet. Something that wascompletely innovative for theisland back then.

Daughter, Omyra, proudlyannounced..."we were the firstwith grocery carts, the firstwith self-service." She wasborn in the building and re-members exactly how it waswhen fresh fruits and vegeta-bles would arrive on Fridays

Investigators are mean-while hoping to get answersfrom Tsarnaev about the broth-ers' possible motive, and learnwhether other attacks were inthe works.

Boston Police Commis-sioner Ed Davis said Sundaythat the brothers, who had beenliving legally in the UnitedStates for more than a decade,had more homemade explosivedevices and appeared to havebeen planning more attacks.

He said federal authoritieswere trying to track down howand where the two suspects ob-tained firearms and explosivedevices. An M-4 assault riflewas recovered in the boatwhere Dzhokhar was captured,the New York Times reported.

The brothers also appar-ently used two handguns and aBB gun in the shootout withpolice in the Boston suburb ofWatertown.

The motive for the attacksremains unclear, and investiga-tors are now probing a six-month trip made by Tamerlanin 2012 to Russia's troubled re-gions of Dagestan and Chech-nya, and whether he wasradicalized or trained there.

Meanwhile, Bostonians at-tempted to put the traumaticweek behind them. The cityhonored the victims of theblasts with a moment of si-lence at 2:50 pm that was alsoobserved by President Obama.

BOSTON (AFP) -Boston bomb suspectDzhokhar Tsarnaev wascharged yesterday withusing a weapon of massdestruction and couldface the death penalty ifconvicted, the US De-partment of Justice said.

Tsarnaev, 19, also hasbeen charged with onecount of malicious de-struction of property bymeans of deadly explo-sives, the DOJ said in astatement. He was ar-raigned in his hospitalbed, where he remains inse rious condition.

If the teen, a naturalized UScitizen of Chechen descent, isconvicted of the federalcharges over last week's twinmarathon blasts, which leftthree dead and 180 wounded,he could be sentenced to jailtime -- or to death.

A first hearing in US fed-eral court has been scheduledfor May 30, an official in theUS prosecutor's office in thecity said.

"We've once again shownthat those who target innocentAmericans and attempt to ter-rorize our cities will not escapefrom justice," said US Attor-ney General Eric Holder.

The unsealing of the federalcharges against Tsarnaev, whosuffered a gunshot wound tothe throat after being capturedlate Friday, came as WhiteHouse spokesman Jay Carneysaid he would not be deemedan "enemy combatant."

"We will prosecute this ter-rorist through our civilian sys-tem of justice," Carney said,after some Republicans hadsaid Tsarnaev should have thesame status as the "War on Ter-ror" detainees held at Guan-tanamo.

"The system has repeatedlyproven that it can successfullyhandle the threat we continueto face," Carney said, addingthat US law forbids trying ci -tizens in military courts.

Boston bomb suspectcharged, faces deathpenalty

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Reviving the honor of Main Street!

Police: Two arrested inCanada over Al Qaeda plot

Venezuela

threatens oil,

trade measures in

vote row with US

Artist Impression of Plaza Nicky Habibe shows the beginning of Main Street up to theend is being revived to its former glory...

we were being evicted. Wedidn’t have a place to live. Iwas living with my mom and Isaw her break down and Ithought to myself “I neverwant to see this happen againto my family” And I began tothink about the heroes in mylife, some of whom were in myfamily and some were on thescreen: heroes like HarrisonFord and Arnold Schwarze -negger. I thought "well, thoseguy are successful and theybuilt their bodies with theirhands, that’s what I could do",so I took up body building. Itwas a defining time for me.

NDS: You say you were ar-rested by the age of 14; couldyou tell me why?

DJ: It was every thing fromgetting into fights and for theft,I was struggling and Hawaii al-ways represented a lot of strug-gle. I was adventurous on onehand and creating romanticmoments in my mind, my in-terpretation of romantic withmy girlfriend. I was challeng-ing to my parents.

NDS: Adventurous and ro-mantic seems like a good com-bination. Can you give me anexample?

DJ: Well, my very first datewas adventurous, I was doinga lot of things that I shouldn’thave been doing in a way, butyet it wound up being a won-derful night. It was quite an ad-venture, because basicallywhat had happened was mygirlfriend and I were in a park;I was 14, we were hanging outand we had a blanket, it wasmy version my being romantic.We had already gone to dinnerand the park was beautiful. Westarted to get a little romantic,we were kissing and then sud-denly some very bright spot-lights came on! They werejarring and it wound up beingthe cops. They were justchecking if were doing anything that couples shouldn’t bedoing at night in a park. Theyquestioned us separately andwhen they determined that we

wrong path in your life?DJ: I would say my faith. I

started getting into troublevery early in life and I had ahard time staying on the righttrack. When I was 14 I startedgetting arrested for doing a lotof things that I should not havebeen doing. But I did havefaith at that time that thingswere going to get better. I hadfaith in my relationship withGod and some adult figures inmy life who cared about me;they saw the potential in meeven though I didn’t. When Iwas 14 years old we were li -ving in Hawaii in a very smallefficiency apartment and oneday when we came home,there was a lock on our door-

Few actors today combine thepure masculinity but wrycomedic timing of the co-starof “Pain and Gain” DwayneJohnson’s latest film, sche -duled to Aruba's multiplex thiscoming Thursday, April 25. It’sbased on a true story about agroup of steroid-abusing body-builders engaged in kidnap-ping, extortion and murder.Dwayne plays a characternamed Paul Doyle. SpecialCorrespondent to Hollywoodfor THE MORNING NEWS,Noel de Sousa, has the low-down on the upcoming film.

NDS: Doyle is saved by hisfaith from going down thewrong pat in the film, Has any-thing saved you from taking a

NDS: What is your work-out regimen?

DJ: I train every day, 5 daysa week, generally very early inthe morning. If I have a shootthen I get up between 3:00 and4:00 o’clock in the morningand I go train, then I have mybreakfast and go on the set. Onthe days that I am not shootingI’ll get up between 5 and 6 inthe morning and work out. Itanchors my day. It allows me toget into a space of Zen, peace,quiet, it’s my meditation. It’smy Yoga. It’s Pilates, it’s myhiking. It’s whatever it is thatyou need, that’s what that is forme and in addition to that it’sjust a way to get away fromeveryone for that brief momentof time.

NDS: and your diet? DJ: I eat a lot, but fairly

clean. I keep it fairly clean. Itry to find a balance of proteinand carbohydrates, fats andgreens in every meal. I proba-bly have around anywhere be-tween 6,000 to 8,000 caloriesa day, It’s a lot I know, but I’mnever full, I’m always hungry.

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were not doing any thing thatwe were not supposed to, theyleft and we continued to havefun.

NDS: Was she happy thatnight?

DJ: She was very happythat night. At least in my mindshe was.

NDS: What does bodybuilding mean to you?

DJ: From a young age, as Itold, I’ve just always equatedthat men who build their bo -dies could become somebody.

NDS: You now have thebody and the looks, so how doyou go about seducing awoman?

DJ: The body does get theattention of women, but as faras seduction? I have done amultitude of things: somecharming, some absurd, someridiculous, some sweet andkind to get the attention ofwomen. But I’ve always foundthe best thing to do is just bedirect and honest, "you lookbeautiful. I’d like to say helloto you, what’s your name?"That generally is a good ap-proach.

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Exclusive interview with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnsonby Morning News special correspondent in Hollywood: Noel de Souza.

The steps to enter into apartnership and establish a newNV, which they call ECKROwas not without its hassles.Last Tuesday Jessica Rosel,sole proprietorship of “RoselAdministration and Consul-tancy” celebrated nine years.Last year she contemplatedwhether to expand or start abrand new business.

However, after attendingseveral lectures of the “SmallBusiness Week” organized bythe government, she becamemotivated and inspired as wellas convinced that the time hadcome to take the next step asan entrepreneur.

Michael Eckmeyer on theother hand was employed atValero. He has 21 years of ex-perience in administration.When Valero closed down therefinery, he was one of thosethat got laid off. In an en-counter with Rosel back inFebruary the idea was born tovisit IDEA with plans and awell developed business con-cept. With valuable tips andadvice from IDEA, the jointventure was started.

According to the Minister,the community of small busi-ness is the back bone of oureconomy. She stated that shewas happy that the Small Busi-ness Week is producing resultsand is continuing to stimulatethe economy of our island. Shecontinued that every businessoffering knowledge and infor-mation services are helping usto move forward to developingour third economic pillar,namely, knowledge.

The Minister thanked Jessicaand Michael for the honor ofcelebrating their new businesswith them and wished them suc-cess in this new endeavor.

Last week the Minister of Eco-nomic Affairs had the honor ofcutting the ribbon to a newbusiness, ECKRO Administra-tion and Consultancy locatedin the Tanki Leendert commu-nity. Jessica Rosel and MichaelEckmeyer entered into a jointventure to offer administrativeand consulting services tomicro and small businesses.They believe that there is a cer-tain market for this.

cert, one of the objec-tives is to allow youngpeople the opportunityto present their talent ina professional setting soas to stimulate otheryoung people to im-prove themselves sothat they can later alsopresent in the Cas DiCultura one day.

The pianists to per-form in this Concertunder the direction ofCarlos Bislip is VictorCamacho, who has along history as a pianiston Aruba and consideredthe “nestor” of this

group. The youngest player is16 year old Vanessa Chacon.Vanessa has been playing thepiano since her 9th birthday.After listening to Kyle Winklaarplay a Burgmuller piece, she dis-covered that she likes fast tempoand difficult musical pieces.

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ways been those who play thepiano. Padu Lampe and RufoWever are two of the mostrenown, but there are others, tomention: Johnny Scharbaay,Victor Camacho, ArmandSimon and Johnny Croes, justto mention a few of them.

In this Aruba Legacy Con-

Next Sunday, April 28th aspecial piano concert isscheduled to take place inthe Cas Di Cultura. Pianogiants like, Victor Cama-cho, Angelo Kock andother newcomers to theworld of piano music, suchas Kyle Winklaar, MandyVillasmil, Terrance Greenand Va nessa Chacon, willtake the stage to delight theaudience with their music.

The music promises tobe varied by the renditionsof the different artists andthe evening promises to beunforgettable, accordingto the organizers.

Production of the concert isin the hands of Cas Di Culturawith Carlos Bislip directing theentire program. In Aruba, thepiano has the longest history asthe musical instrument usedfor formal formation. Musi-cians who have achieved highlevels of musical skill have al-

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Aruban Piano Legacy Concertis next Sunday

Small Business Weekcontinues to stimulateour economy

focus. Most of the dogs shehad rescued have been moved,but some still remain.

Her most pressing concernat present is 20 dogs that needhomes immediately, even ifonly on a temporary basis.Their food will be paid for, soplease, if anyone is willing totake a dog, contact Kiki at thehospital on her cell: 742-8732or send a text message. A mes-sage of support and goodwishes will also help to raiseher spirits.

Cas Animal Foundation hasbeen providing a very impor-tant services to the Arubancommunity for a number ofyears now, purely on a volun-teer basis, assisting many ho-tels when they had problemswith stay dogs and cats on theirpremises. Now is a good timeto help someone in dire need,who gave selflessly of theirtime and energy.

Rosalie Klein

after thousands of operations,this unheard of sentiment leftthem speechless.

Kiki's friends have ralliedto help her continue in her mis-sion. Arrangements had beenmade to see the foundation andconstruction of a sanctuarywould continue. Followingsurgery, Kiki has receivedmore bad news. A portion ofthe tumor adhering to thespinal cord could be not be re-moved. She must go to Colom-bia for a particular kind ofsurgery to have that done. Un-fortunately, all medical ex-penses are coming out ofpocket, and her personal re-sources are utterly depleted.She refuses to touch the fundsput aside for the care of thedogs and building of the sanc-tuary. At present, she cannotwalk, but is still anxious to getback to her babies, or see totheir care during this time;their will being is her main

these unwanted dogs love andproper medical care. She con-ducted fundraisers and devotedall her time to designing, get-ting land and putting asidefunds to build a proper strictlyno-kill shelter on a plotawarded her by the govern-ment. Just on the brink ofbreaking ground, after finallyobtaining all the permitsneeded, she has fallen seri-ously ill, and now she person-ally is in need of support of allthose who believed in her wor-thy goal.

Kiki was diagnosed with atumor pressing on her spine atthe juncture of her neck andskull. The doctor thought itmiraculous that she could evenbreathe. They operated on Fri-day, April 19. When asked ifshe had any last words beforebeing anesthetized, she onlysaid "Please make sure mydogs are taken care of." Thedoctor and nurses report that

doned dogs andcats off Aruba'sstreets. Shewould rehabili-tate them physi-cally andpsychologically,finding good,loving homes forthem, wheneverpossible, oftenassisting islandvisitors to returnhome with an an-imal that hadcaptured theirhearts.

Those dogsthat many woulddismiss as beingtoo ugly, and "notworth botheringto save" she

would keep and care for per-sonally in her home, which sheconverted into a refuge. Ignor-ing her own needs, she hasdedicated her life to giving

For more than a decade,Kirsten Arndt, the founder ofCas Animal Foundation, hasbeen rescuing stray and aban-

Cas Animal Foundation founder Kirsten Arndt needs the

support of dog lovers NOW!


Terrance Green (18) con-siders the piano an incredibleinstrument – the sound, thefeel of the ivory keys, and allthe musical possibilities ofthe piano! Terrance aspires toone day achieve the caliber ofHerbie Hancock or BillEvans. His presentation inthis Concert will demonstratehis tremendous skill.

When Mandy Villasmil re-ceived a piano as a birthdaygift on her 10th birthday, itadded a new musical dimen-sion to her life. From the ageof 8 she has been playing theviolin and has been singingsince she was 6 years of age.She is still practicing bothskills. One of Mandy’s teach-ers was the great maestroToty Arends. Mandy’s fa-vorite is Aruban music and inparticular our waltz.

Kyle Winklaar (19) comesfrom a musical family. At theage of 9 he began playing thepiano. He has played in va -rious groups, jazz ensemblesand has also presented at alarge audience in a Concert ofthe Ca ribbean Sea Jazz Festi-val. His preference goes outfor Jazz and local music.Kyle intends to pursue a mu-sical career.

Angelo Kock (32)… “thepiano is the primary instru-ment for musical expressionin general. His parents alwaysencouraged him, from a veryyoung age, as they saw muchmusical talent in him fromvery early on. His musictoday is a profession for Kyle.He plays in hotels, clubs,cafés and in other establish-ments on the island. His pre -ference is for Latin music.

Aruban Piano Legacy...Continued from page 3

Smiling through the pain

aaC) in May.These a320 aircraft are

powered by reliable and effi-cient IaE engines to reducefuel consumption.

ma City; and São Paulo,Brazil.

Miami is to be added inJune, after the planned deli -very of a second a320 (P4-

aruba says that it is con-ducting final certificationflights to launch operationslater this month with a singlea320 (registration P4-aaa)later in april.

Flightglobal's ascend On-line database lists the Interna-tional aero Engines IaEV2500-powered twinjet asbeing owned by InternationalLease Finance. The aircraftwas built in 1996.

The airline configured itwith 138 economy and 12business-class seats. Flightswill initially be operated toMaracaibo, Venezuela; Pana -

CarIBBEaN start-up opera-tor aruba airlines has con-tracted Sabena Technics'Miami-based subsidiary Bar -field to provide componentsupport for its airbus a320s.

The Dutch antilles-basedcarrier has signed a four-year,by-the-hour contract coveringpool access to componentsfrom "nose to tail" and repairson selected equipment, saysthe French MrO provider.

The repairs will be con-ducted at Barfield's facility inBogota, Colombia, while anequipment kit will be placed atthe carrier's base in Oranjestad.


Sabena Technics wins Aruba support deal

NDS: The guys in themovie "Pain and Gain" areobsessed with their looksand bodies. What is your re-lationship to that aspect ofbodybuilding?

DJ: Well for those guysyes. It’s a very fascinatingculture of body building,where the body builders, bethey amateur or profes-sional, are extremely disci-plined and their worldconsists of eating and sleep-ing and working out. It’s acrazy, crazy world. Theyfind their own comfort inthe world of body building.Personally for me I enjoythe training and work out.For me it’s not necessarilybeing a big muscled guy,it’s just a matter of what an-chors my day.

NDS: Even Bodybuilders grow old and itshows on their bodies.What do you notices aschanging as you growolder?

DJ: I turned 40 this year.So what I do is trainsmarter, try and understand,really try and understand,educate myself on supple-ments and on what I’m eat-ing. When I’m eating it, thetime of eating it, so I havehired a great diet condition-ing coach who is very, veryknowledgeable in not onlyhelping me prepare for var-ious roles but even in be-tween roles and helping meunderstand what certainfoods do and what theydon’t do. I have a very won-derful holistic doctor inNew Mexico who continuesto do body testing andthings like that.

NDS: What advicewould you have to helppeople anchor their day andtheir lives?

DJ: The key thing that Iwould share with every oneis to find some thing thatyou love to do. Somethingyou are passionate about.For me I found what an-chors my day, and sometimes it doesn’t even haveto be a work out. Sometimes it includes just beingon a computer or checkingemail or just taking a walk.In terms of eating: just eat abit clean because all thatbad stuff will catch up withyou later.

Dwayne

“The

Rock”

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laying it many months oryears."

"I never said that!" boomedSenate Republican ChuckGrassley, who earlier hadquestioned the merits of someof the bill's security measures.

On Friday, during the firstof at least three scheduled im-migration hearings over thecoming days, Grassley linkedthe Boston terrorist attacks andthe nation's immigration poli-cies by saying lawmakersshould study whether the sus-pects exploited "weaknesses"in the law.

Congressman Steve King ofIowa, a Republican and teaparty favorite, had been moredirect, telling the NationalJournal last week that thecountry should not rush to im-migration reform, especially inthe wake of the Boston attackwhich killed three people andwounded 180.

Schumer and Leahy bothsaid they welcomed the intro-duction of amendments duringthe mark up process that wouldimprove the underlying immi-gration legislation.

lions of hardworking people,"Leahy said at the outset of alengthy hearing.

"A nation as strong as ourscan welcome the oppressedand persecuted without ma -king compromises on our se-curity."

The bill, negotiated in se-cret by four Senate Democratsand four Senate Republicans,would require dramatic im-provements to security alongthe nation's southern borderwith Mexico demonstratedover a 10-year period beforeany illegal immigrant canapply for a permanent resi-dency green card.

But the issue became aflashpoint in the hearing whenDemocrat Chuck Schumer ap-peared to try to caution "thosewho are pointing to what hap-pened, the terrible tragedy inBoston as, I would say, an ex-cuse for not doing a bill or de-

WASHINGTON (AFP) - USsenators said yesterday thatfixing the immigration systemwould help prevent future ter-ror attacks, and warned itwould be "cruel" to exploit theBoston bombings as a reasonfor delaying reform efforts.

Lawmakers in a JudiciaryCommittee hearing clashedover linking the attack tostronger immigration enforce-ment, as the Senate considers alandmark bipartisan immigra-tion plan that puts 11 millionundocumented migrants on apath to US citizenship

Judiciary chairman PatrickLeahy led Democrats' declara-tions that the bill would in-crease security by tighteningborders and enhancing entryand exit data.

"Let no one be so cruel as touse the heinous acts of twoyoung men last week to derailthe dreams and futures of mil-

US senators clash over tying immigrationto Boston attack

lowing a crackdown by secu-rity forces in the city.

Initial reports suggestedthat the fighting started whensoldiers surrounded a mosqueallegedly housing Islamist in-surgents. But a resident toldAFP that the clashes beganwhen Boko Haram gunmen at-tempted to burst into a "view-ing centre" where locals go towatch football matches.

Seeing the approachingmilitants, some in the viewingcentre reportedly fled, causingthe Islamists to open fire.

Nearby troops engaged thegunmen but were forced towithdraw under fire fromheavily armed insurgents.Some resident reports said themilitants were armed withrocket propelled grenades.

The troops later returnedwith a large contingent of re-enforcements.

The soldiers then "went ona shooting spree and set homeson fire. They opened fire onanybody within sight. Women,children and the elderly werenot spared", said the resident,who did not want to be namedwhen accusing the military ofsuch violence.

KANO, Nigeria (AFP) -Heavy fighting between Nige -rian troops and suspected Is-lamist insurgents has killed187 people and injured 77 oth-ers, with massive blazes thatraged after the clashes leavingnearly half the town destroyed,the Red Cross said yesterday.

The bloodshed in the re-mote northeastern town ofBaga likely marks the singledeadliest event in the insur-gency being waged by BokoHaram, the radical Islamistgroup blamed for scores of at-tacks in northern and centralNigeria since 2009.

Conflicting reports haveemerged of the fighting thatbroke out Friday, but residentsand officials have said the highdeath toll included soldiers, in-surgents as well as scores ofcivilians.

Baga lies in Borno state, thehome base of Boko Haram, butthe town had not previouslybeen known as the site of suchheavy fighting.

The Islamists have used thestate capital Maiduguri as theirbase, but scores of militantshave reportedly fled to moreremote corners of the state fol-


INTERNATIONAL NEWS

187 dead, 77 injured after

fierce Nigeria clashes

White House vows 'Round

Two' in guns fight WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House yesterdayvowed there would be a "Round Two" in PresidentBarack Obama's struggle to pass new gun laws, after hisinitial attempt crashed to failure last week.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said that the fail-ure of the Senate to endorse expanded background checksfor gun owners, the final remaining piece of ambitiousWhite House reform plans, was not the end.

"Ninety percent of the American people were in favorof one thing; a minority of United States senators derailedthat," he said. "I don't have a legislative strategy to layout to you today but there will be a 'Round Two' andthere will be a continued effort by this administrationand, more importantly, by the American people.".

Carney complained that a small number of mostly Re-publican senators had blocked the background checksbill in the Senate despite the fact that it was favored by90 percent of the American people.

"What the president made clear... is that this will hap-pen. The time will come when we expand and improveour background-check system because it has to be done.It is common sense. As we have seen in our history, some-times Congress takes a little bit of time to catch up to theAmerican people. This is one of those times."

the threat had been made andwarned parents not to sendtheir children to class.

An AFP correspondent saidthat besides the cordoned-offschools and the police pres-ence, life in the city appearedto be continuing normally.

Dutch police in 2009 ar-rested an 18-year-old man forposting threats on 4chan.org.

The man, who threatened ashooting at a school in thesouthern city of Breda, latersaid he did it as a joke.

In April 2011, a man armedwith a semi-automatic riflekilled six people when heopened fire on shoppers at amall in the western town ofAlphen aan de Rijn.

Gunman Tristan van derVlis, 24, then committed sui-cide, in what was the worstmass shooting in recent timesin the Netherlands.

In 1999, four students and ateacher were wounded when astudent fired 10 shots in acomputer room at a school inthe southern Dutch town ofVeghel.

Maduro's victory.Pope Francis, who hails

from Argentina and is the firstpontiff from Latin America,said in a statement from theVatican Sunday that he was fol-lowing events in Venezuela"with great concern."

The Catholic Church hasoften played a role as mediatorin political conflicts in LatinAmerica, notably in commu-nist-ruled Cuba in recent years,but it has been largely sidelinedin Venezuela under Chavez, aleftwing populist who oftenbutted heads with the bishops.

promptly suspended from theMercosur trade bloc as well asthe Unasur group of southAmerican nations.

Cartes's election bringsParaguay back into their goodgraces.

Argentine President CristinaKirchner and Uruguayan Pres-ident Jose Mujica both con-gratulated Cartes.

Mujica in turn invited Cartesto the next Mercosur summit,to be held in Uruguay in June.

The larger countries needParaguay: in February, theFrench and Germany ambassa-dors in Asuncion said that theEuropean Union would notsign any agreements with Mer-cosur as long as Paraguay was

ASUNCION (AFP) - Col-orado Party millionaire andpolitical neophyte HoracioCartes won Paraguay's presi-dential race, officials said Sun-day, paving the way for hisnation to rejoin the Mercosurtrade bloc.

Cartes, a conservative to-bacco baron, took 46 percentof the vote against 37 percentfor his nearest rival, EfrainAlegre of the ruling LiberalParty, Paraguay's top electionofficial said. Alegre quicklyconceded defeat.

With the national flagwrapped around his neck, the56 year-old president-electsaid in his victory speech thathe would lead Paraguay in "anew direction."

Cartes -- whose businessesinclude banks, a sports team,soybeans and currency ex-changes -- also promised thathe would work "for allParaguayans."

The conservative Coloradosheld Paraguay's presidency for60 years until leftist formerCatholic bishop FernandoLugo was elected in 2008.

But Lugo was impeached inJune 2012, a move that severalregional governments saw as acoup d'etat by the conservativelegislature. Paraguay was


absent.Paraguay was one of the

original Mercosur membersalong with Argentina, Braziland Uruguay when the re-gional trade bloc was foundedin 1991.

Venezuela had for yearsbeen trying to join Mercosur, amove opposed by Paraguay.But with Paraguay out lastyear, Venezuela entered thegroup.

Paraguayan officials how-ever have said they will acceptthe new member, despite theirprevious opposition.

Millionaire businessman winsParaguay presidency

International News

the British School or to its stu-dents, the school said, addingthat it had remained open onMonday.

Founded in 1931, the expen-sive private school hosts stu-dents of 80 differentnationalities, according to itswebsite.

Authorities in Leiden de-cided late Sunday night toclose secondary schools tothousands of pupils followinga tip-off by Swiss police fol-lowing the threat.

"I will shoot my Dutchteacher and as many studentsas I can," said the anonymousmessage in English on the US-based online forum 4chan.org.

"It's at a school in the Dutchcity of Leiden" it said, chill-ingly adding "for more proof,I will be using a 9mm Colt De-fender."

"Oh, and I'm using a proxy,the police is not gonna find mebefore tomorrow," the messageended.

In a statement late Sunday,law officials said they did notyet know against which school

LEIDEN (AFP) - Dutch po-lice arrested a former pupil ata British school in the Nether-lands on Monday in connec-tion with a threat to go on ashooting spree that saw armedpolice deployed and schoolsclosed.

Police in the university cityof Leiden, just northeast ofThe Hague, confirmed oneperson had been arrested fol-lowing the threat to "shoot myDutch teacher and as manystudents as I can", made on anInternet site over the weekend.

"Someone was arrested inconnection with the threat andwe're continuing our investiga-tions," a police spokeswomansaid, declining to give hername.

The British School inVoorschoten, between Leidenand The Hague, said the pupilwas expelled in October 2011"after incidents regarding hisbehaviour and has thereforenot attended the school forover a year."

Police informed the schoolthat there was never a threat to

Dutch police arrest ex-Britishschool pupil over shooting threat

remained locked in a tense con-frontation over the outcome ofthe snap election to replaceChavez, who died March 5after 14 years in power.

The National ElectoralCouncil declared Maduro thewinner with an 1.8 percentmargin, setting off oppositiondemands for a recount and fu-rious street protests that thegovernment said left eight peo-ple dead across the country.

An expanded audit of thevote is to begin as early as nextweek, but the vice president ofthe election council said Satur-day it could not overturn

CARACAS (AFP) - TheCatholic Church weighed inon Venezuela's political crisis,with Pope Francis expressingdeep concern and calling fordialogue in the wake of a dis-puted presidential election.

The head of the Venezuelachurch meanwhile offered tohelp arrange talks betweenPresident Nicolas Maduro, thepolitical heir of the late leftistleader Hugo Chavez, and op-position leader HenriqueCapriles.

Two days after Maduro's in-auguration as president, thegovernment and the opposition

Vatican calls for dialogue in crisis-hit Venezuela

Each implant, glowing likean orb in the show's eery bluelight, threatens to tear throughthe fine stocking, which isstretched almost to breakingpoint.

"Hold-ups represent femi-ninity and yet are somethingfragile which can break,"Lorin said, reflecting on theruptures suffered by womenwith faulty implants, 5,000 ofwhom are registered as plain-tiffs in the case against the ex-ecutives from the

now-defunct PIP.She added that her focus

was "not really the trial or the

scandal" but on the pressuresto have cosmetic surgery.

Handling the silicone was"quite complicated", said the32-year-old.

"It's actually quite some-thing to manipulate the im-plants, it brings up questionsthat are sensitive and private".

plants, which some health au-thorities say are twice as likelyto rupture as other brands.

With her one-night displayas part of events to mark Mar-seille's year as the EuropeanCapital of Culture, Lorin saidshe wanted to shift the focusfrom the legal proceedings tothe silicone enhancers them-selves, and the pressure onwomen to be beautiful.

MARSEILLE (AFP) - Nestledinside flimsy black fishnetstockings that droop heavilyfrom the ceiling, hundreds ofbreast implants made by a firmwhose faulty products sparkeda global health scare have beenturned into an art installation inthe French city of Marseille.

The aptly punned "PIPShow" by artist Camille Lorin,which opens late on Saturday,comes just days after Francelaunched a high-profile trialagainst five managers from thePIP company who stand ac-cused of using sub-standard,industrial-grade silicone im-plants.

An estimated 300,000women in 65 countries are be-lieved to have received the im-

Controversial breast implantsbecome works of art in France


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marijuana and pills withtetrahydrocannabinol, or THC,which is the active ingredientin the drug.

A team led by Ziva Cooperand Margaret Haney of Co-lumbia University in NewYork asked 15 male and 15 fe-male volunteers, all of themdaily cannabis smokers, tocarry out a pain test after hav-ing smoked marijuana, taken apill or a dummy look-a-likecalled a placebo.

The experiment entailed a"cold pressor test," in whichthe participants immersed ahand into a bath of extremelycold water for up to two min-utes, during which they re-ported on the sensation of pain.

Both smoked marijuana andthe THC decreased pain sensi-tivity and boosted tolerance topain compared to the placebo.

But the pill beat marijuanafor long-lasting decreases inpain.

The findings are promisingfor medical uses of the THCpill, but more work is neededto determine its impact on in-dividuals who do not smokemarijuana, say the investiga-tors.

The study appears in thejournal Neuropsychopharma-cology.

PARIS (AFP) - Marijuanaprovides greater pain reliefwhen taken in pill form thanwhen it is smoked, accordingto a study published on Mon-day that touches on a contro-versial medical issue.

Cancer and multiple-sclero-sis doctors are looking moreand more closely at cannabisfor patients seeking relief frompain, and some jurisdictionsallow the medical use of thedrug for this purpose.

But marijuana smoke alsocarries health risks, for it car-ries carcinogens and respira-tory irritants and users tend toinhale deeply and hold theirbreath to gain maximum ef-fect.

Neuroscientists in theUnited States have now carriedout what they say is the firstscientific study to comparepain relief between smoked

Cannabis: Pill better thansmoking for pain relief

A photo taken April 18, 2013 shows files in the court-house at the Parc Chanot in Marseille, southern France,before the trial of five managers of the French companyPoly Implant Prothese (PIP), including its founder Jean-Claude Mas, who face fraud charges for allegedly sellingfaulty breast implants that sparked global health fears.PIP company was shut down on March 2010 and its prod-uct banned after it was revealed to have been using non-authorised silicone gel that caused abnormally highrupture rates of its implants.

changes in Earth's orbit, bothof which would diminish sun-light falling on the planet.

The cooling -- between 0.1-0.3 C (0.2-0.6 F) per thousandyears, depending on the region-- went into reverse towardsthe end of the 19th century,and was followed by an inten-sifying period of warming inthe 20th, the paper said.

Beneath this global trendover 2,000 years were episodesof continental cooling orwarming, some of which werequite long.

And some continents laggedthe overall planetary trend, butwith the exception of Antarc-tica, all followed it.

"Distinctive periods, such asthe Medieval Warm Period orthe Little Ice Age stand out,but do not show a globally uni-form pattern on multi-decadaltime scales," said Heinz Wan-ner of the University of Bernin Switzerland, one of 78 re-searchers from 24 countrieswho took part in the project.

Previous research into cli-mate change has pointed to awarming spurt in the 20th cen-tury and attributed it to the riseof heat-trapping carbon gasesemitted by burning coal, oiland gas.

2012 saw the 36th straightyear that global temperatureswere above average since1880, when scientifically ac-ceptable records were firstkept, and was the ninth or 10thwarmest on record, US scien-tists said in January.


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NEW YORK (AFP) - Are youcrazy enough to sign up for aone-way trip to Mars? Applica-tions are being accepted by themakers of a Dutch reality showthat says it will deliver the firsthumans to the red planet in 10years.

The main requirements arestrong health, good people andsurvival skills, being 18 orolder, and having a reasonablegrasp of the English language.

The company, called "MarsOne," aims to land its first fourastronauts in 2023 for a tele-vised reality show that wouldfollow the exploits of the firsthumans to attempt to establisha colony on Mars.

Already, the organizers havereceived "10,000 emails frommore than 100 different coun-tries from people who are in-

terested in joining us for thismission," said founder BasLandsdorp at a press confer-ence in a New York hotel.

In all they are seeking sixgroups of four people each. Anew group would make theseven-month journey everytwo years after the first crewdeparts in 2022.

The cost for the first missionis about six billion dollars.

The project has garneredplenty of skeptics but isbacked by Dutch Nobel laure-ate Gerard 't Hooft, who wonthe 1999 prize for physics.

The world's space agencieshave only managed to send un-manned robotic rovers to Marsso far, the latest being NASA's$2.5 billion Curiosity roverwhich touched down in Au-gust 2012.

Dutch reality show seeksone-way astronauts for Mars PARIS (AFP) - Earth was

cooling until the end of the19th century and a hundredyears later, the planet's surfacewas on average warmer than atany time in the previous 1,400years, according to climaterecords presented.

In a study spanning two mil-lennia published in NatureGeoscience, scientists said a"long-term cooling trend"around the world swung intoreverse in the late 19th century.

In the 20th century, the av-erage global temperature was0.4 degrees Celsius (0.7 de-

grees Fahrenheit) higher thanthat of the previous 500 years,with only Antarctica buckingthe trend.

From 1971-2000, the planetwas warmer than at any othertime in nearly 1,400 years.

This measure is a global av-erage, and some regions didexperience warmer periodsthan that -- but only for a time.Europe, for instance, wasprobably warmer in the firstcentury AD than at the end ofthe 20th century.

The investigation is the firstattempt to reconstruct temper-atures over the last 2,000 yearsfor individual continents.

It seeks to shed light on afiercely-contested aspect inthe global-warming debate.

Sceptics have claimed boutsof cooling or warming beforethe Industrial Revolution -- in-cluding two episodes in Eu-rope called the MedievalWarm Period and the Little IceAge -- are proof that climatevariations are natural, notman-made.

The new study does notwade into the debate aboutgreenhouse gases, but pointsto two planetary trends.

The first is a clear, pro-longed period of cooling. Itmay have been caused by acombination of factors, includ-ing an increase in volcanic ac-tivity, with stratospheric ashesreflecting the sunlight, or a de-crease in solar activity or tiny

Late 20th century was warmest in1,400 years


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60,000 barrels of naphtha,53,000 barrels of jet fuel,24,000 barrels of gasoil, and9,000 barrels of liquefied pe-troleum gas (LPG).

The Gulf state producesaround one million barrels ofcrude oil daily. But it sits onthe world's third largest re-serve of natural gas -- morethan 900 trillion cubic feet (25trillion cubic metres).

NEW YORK (AFP) - SomeUS airports Monday were ex-periencing significant flightdelays in the wake of US Fed-eral Aviation Administrationfurloughs due to federalbudget cuts that are forcingstaffing cutbacks.

In addition to some wind-re-lated delays, New York's LaGuardia airport was experienc-ing "general departure delays"of 60-75 minutes, whileNewark, New Jersey's airportwas experiencing delays of 46-60 minutes, according to theFAA's website.

The delays began over theweekend after the FAA beganinstituting furloughs for work-ers, including air traffic controlstaff, on Sunday related to thebudget cuts.

Hold-ups averaged morethan three hours Sunday nightat Los Angeles InternationalAirport.

"The FAA will be workingwith the airlines and using acomprehensive set of air trafficmanagement tools to minimizethe delay impacts of lowerstaffing as we move into thebusy summer travel season,"the agency said in a statement.

An American Airlinesspokeswoman said Newarkwas one of five airports "most

likely" to be affected by the se-questration cuts, while LaGuardia was one of four air-ports that "could potentially beaffected" by the cuts.

On Friday three airlinegroups said they would peti-tion the Federal appeals courtin Washington to block se-quester cuts by the FAA andthe Department of Transporta-tion "to protect the rights of thetraveling public."

"The Regional Airline Asso-ciation, Airlines for Americaand the Air Line Pilots Associ-ation warned of "significantchaos" that could take placedue to the furloughs of airportand other personnel.

"Our entire aviation systemwill struggle to maintain nor-mality due to furloughs ofthese essential workers. Theeconomic viability of ourcountry depends on this modeof transportation; everyonewill be affected," said ALPApresident Lee Moak.

DOHA(AFP) - Energy-richQatar and a consortium led byTotal of France have signed ajoint venture agreement tobuild a $1.5 billion petroleumrefinery in the Gulf state, localmedia reported on Monday.

The refinery will have adaily production capacity of146,000 barrels of petroleumproducts, reports said.

Government-owned QatarPetroleum will hold 84 percentin the equity of Ras Laffan Re-finery (LR2), while Total willhave a 10 percent share. Therest will be held by Japanesegroups Idemitsu et Cosmo,Marubeni and Mitsui, reportssaid, adding that the facilitywill be operated by Qatargas.

The refinery will have adaily production capacity of

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Stefan Lauer, said the action,described as a 24-hour warn-ing strike, was "de facto anall-out strike" that was "acompletely excessive measurethat can in no way be justifiedin view of the current state ofnegotiations."

Verdi has accused manage-ment of "playing with em-ployees' fears about theirfuture and their jobs" in refus-ing to make any concreteguarantees.

The union has complainedthat the offer tabled by man-agement represented an in-crease of 0.4-0.6 percent overa period of 12 months.

FRANKFURT (AFP) - Ger-man airline Lufthansa saidMonday it has cancelled mostof its domestic, European andlong-haul flights at six Ger-man airports due to strike ac-tion by ground personnel andsome cabin crew.

Out of nearly 1,800 plannedflights on Monday, "we willoperate 20 short and medium-range flights and 12 long-dis-tance services," a spokesmantold AFP.

At Lufthansa's main hub inFrankfurt, Germany's biggestand Europe's third-biggest air-port, just six out of a total 50flights would go ahead, andthree from 17 at Munich.

Services union Verdi calledthe strike after three rounds ofpay talks with managementended without any agreement.

Verdi is demanding a 5.2-percent pay increase for33,000 Lufthansa groundstaff, plus employees of vari-ous subsidiaries as well ascabin crew members who areVerdi members.

The escalating pay disputethreatens to cause transportchaos across Europe's topeconomy and comes a monthafter Lufthansa was forced tocancel nearly 700 out of atotal 1,800 flights due to halfa day of warning strikes.

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Lufthansa cancels almost all flightsdue to strike

"The fact of the matter is theseare the way taxes are done glob-ally," he added.

"I think the most importantthing to say about our taxes is thatwe fully comply with the law."

Google has come under closerscrutiny in several European na-tions where cash-strapped gov-ernments are increasingly waryof being shortchanged on tax rev-enue.

British lawmakers last year ac-cused the company of being "im-moral" during a committeegrilling of Matt Brittin, chief ex-ecutive of Google UK.

LONDON (AFP) - A topGoogle executive on Mondayinsisted that the company's"key" role in developingBritain's electronic commercesector should be taken into ac-count in the row over its con-troversial tax arrangements.

According to figures citedby Conservative MP CharlieElphicke, Google paid only£3.4 million ($5.4 million, 4.2million euros) in British corpo-ration tax in 2011 on revenuestotalling about £2.5 billion,sparking fury in austerity-hitBritain.

But Google's executivechairman Eric Schmidt toldBBC Radio 4's World at Oneprogramme the company hadnot acted illegally and hadcontributed significantly toBritain's economic growth.

Defending the company'stax bill, he said: "Of coursethat omits the fact that we alsohire more than 2,000 employ-ees and are investing heavilyin Britain.

Schmidt urged critics toconsider the "totality" of theInternet giant's contribution tothe economy.

Google boss defends UK tax bill


Bible a 'copy' ofKoran, bombingsuspect toldneighborBOSTON (AFP) - The de-ceased Boston bombingsuspect recently de-scribed the Bible as acopy of the Koran duringan argument about reli-gion, a former neighborclaims.

Al Ammon, whoseapartment is in the samebuilding in the Bostonsuburb of Watertownwhere Tamerlan Tsarnaevonce lived, told CBS tele-vision's "60 Minutes" thatthe dispute between thetwo took place about threemonths ago.

"I remember the firstthing I said to him wasthat it's always good tohave an open mind to-wards other religions. Andthen he went into theBible and the Koran,"Ammon said in an excerptof an interview set to airlater Sunday. "He was ex-plaining how the Bible isactually a copy of theKoran and how it's usedfor the American govern-ment as an excuse to in-vade other countries."

Christianity predatesIslam by 600 years.

Tamerlan began postingmilitant videos on socialmedia sites in recentyears, and made a six-month trip to Dagestan,which borders Chechnya,in 2012. Both Russian re-gions host separatistrebel groups.

NEW YORK (AFP) - RalphLauren will pay $1.6 million inpenalties and returned profitsstemming from bribes paid byits Argentina unit for impropercustoms clearance, US offi-cials said Monday.

Over a five-year period, thesubsidiary paid bribes to ob-tain paperwork for goods toclear customs, allow clearanceof items without the necessarypaperwork and to clear prohib-ited items, the Justice Depart-ment said.

Sometimes the paymentswere to avoid inspection en-tirely, it added.

Of the total punishment,$882,000 are in fines. The restinvolves the return of illicitprofits and interest, accordingto the Securities and ExchangeCommission.

The SEC is not charging thecompany with violating theForeign Corrupt Practices Actbecause it was Ralph Laurenitself that reported the viola-tions, and it did so quickly andthoroughly, the agency said.

Ralph Lauren to pay $1.6mn over Argentina bribes

LOS ANGELES (AFP) -"Oblivion," a post-apocalypticaction flick starring TomCruise, obliterated the compe-tition in its debut this weekend,taking in about $38.2 million,industry estimates showedSunday.

The film earned more thana third of this weekend's boxoffice revenue -- about 37.41percent of ticket sales, accord-ing to box office tracker Ex-hibitor Relations -- as itjettisoned last week's winner"42" from the top spot.

"42," a biopic about trail-blazing black baseball starJackie Robinson, which starsHarrison Ford as the BrooklynDodgers executive who signedhim, this week came in secondplace, with $18 million inticket sales.

Stone-age cartoon "TheCroods," from DreamWorksAnimation, was third with $9.5million, followed by "ScaryMovie 5," the latest install-ment in the slasher-comedyfranchise, which earned $6.3million.

Action sequel "G.I. Joe: Re-taliation," was fifth, with $5.8million.

In sixth place was "ThePlace Beyond the Pines," star-ring Oscar nominees RyanGosling and Bradley Cooper,which earned $4.7 million.

Action thriller "OlympusHas Fallen," in which terror-ists capture the White Houseand hold the presidenthostage, was in seventh placewith $4.5 million.

"Evil Dead" -- a reinventionof Sam Raimi's cult 1981 filmabout a group of friendshunted by demons in thewoods -- came in eighth with$4.1 million.

The 3D re-release of StevenSpielberg's 1993 dinosaurclassic "Jurassic Park" took in$1.7 million for ninth place.

Rounding out the top 10was Walt Disney's 3D fantasyadventure flick "Oz the Greatand Powerful," which thisweekend earned $3 million fora seven-week total of $224million.

Oblivion' obliterates boxoffice rivals

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) -Oscar winner Reese Wither-spoon was arrested for disor-derly conduct in the US stateof Georgia after authorities de-tained her husband for drunkdriving, US media reportedSunday.

While cops questioned herhusband Jim Toth after seeingthe couple's car swerving earlyFriday, the actress allegedlydid not make any new friends.

Entertainment news websiteTMZ reported she started act-ing up, asking "Do you knowmy name?"

An officer answered by say-ing, "No, I don't need to knowyour name," to which the 37-year-old reportedly shot back:

"You're about to find out whoI am ... You are going to be onnational news."

Witherspoon, one of Holly-wood's highest paid stars witha reputation as being some-thing of a straight arrow, alsobecame "verbal" and "ornery"at the amount of time policewere taking with her husband,according to TMZ.

Both the actress, famous forher huge "Legally Blonde"hits, and her spouse were takento jail, booked and released,TMZ said.

Witherspoon, in Georgia tofilm a new movie, won thebest actress Academy Awardfor 2005's "Walk the Line."

Reese Witherspoon arrested:report


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yard pass behind the Villa de-fence and van Persie met theball first-time with a techni-cally immaculate volley fromoutside the box that rocketedpast goalkeeper Brad Guzanand into the net.

On a night rich with symme-try, van Persie's third goal ar-rived in the 33rd minute.

Shinji Kagawa freed Giggs,who unselfishly squared to vanPersie, and the former Arsenalstriker neatly side-steppedGuzan before lifting the ballinto the roof of the net.

With 24 goals, United's £24million ($37 million, 28 mil-lion euros) man now leadsLuis Suarez by a goal in thetop scorers' chart, to furtherblacken the Liverpool striker'smood after he was charged bythe Football Association forbiting Chelsea's BranislavIvanovic on Sunday.

Van Persie further illustratedhis value by heading off theline from Weimann early in thesecond half, while David deGea saved smartly from Ben-teke and Karim El Ahmadi.

Kagawa spurned a gloriouschance to make it 4-0 when heblazed over the bar, but by thenthe match, like the title race,had long been decided.

Wigan Ath-letic, whocould suckPaul Lam-bert's sideinto the rel-e g a t i o nzone if theywin theirgame inhand.

T h ee v e n in g ' so u t c o m ewas neverin doubt from the moment, justone minute and 23 secondsinto the game, when van Persieput United in front.

Rafael da Silva's deliveryfrom the right appeared over-hit, but Giggs rescued it byvolleying a cushioned crossacross goal for the Dutchmanto tap in from barely a yard.

A chant of 'Championey!'rang out from Old Trafford'sStretford End as United con-tinued to press, Rafael hittingthe post with a crisp strikefrom 20 yards.

Villa threatened to spoilthings when Christian Bentekeside-footed over from AndreasWeimann's pass, only for vanPersie to double United's leadwith a strike to rival any goalscored in Europe this season.

Wayne Rooney floated a 40-

MANCHESTER (AFP) -Robin van Persie hit a first-halfhat-trick as Manchester Unitedcantered to an unprecedented20th English league title withan emphatic 3-0 victory athome to Aston Villa on Mon-day.

Manchester City's 3-1 loss atTottenham Hotspur a day ear-lier had handed United achance to regain the title andAlex Ferguson's men neededno second invitation, swamp-ing Villa to claim the champi-onship with four games tospare.

Van Persie, United's number20, was the man who broughtUnited their 20th top-flightcrown, netting inside 90 sec-onds and then scoring a breath-taking volley beforecompleting his hat-trick 12minutes before half-time.

With 13 Premier League ti-tles, United manager Fergusonand veteran midfielder RyanGiggs, creator of two of vanPersie's goals, have now eachwon as many English leaguecrowns as Arsenal.

Eternal rivals Liverpool,meanwhile, now trail Unitedby two championships on theall-time honours board.

Villa never threatened topoop the party and remainunder threat from third-bottom

Football: Van Persie treble fires

United to 20th title


MOSCOW (AFP) - Two-time Olympic medal winnerArkady Vyatchanin has decided to quit swimming forRussia and represent another country, the Allsport newsagency reported Monday. "I believe that I can offer noth-ing else to Russian swimming," Vyatchanin was quotedas saying at the Russian Cup final in Kazan. "I will con-tinue my swimming performances but not as a Russianathlete any more. I will decide which country's team tojoin in the near future." The backstroke specialist saidhis American coach Gregg Troy supported his decisionto change citizenship. The 29-year-old said he will missthe upcoming world championships in Barcelona tospeed up the process so he can represent another coun-try at the Olympics as soon as possible. Vyatchanin wontwo bronze medals at the Beijing Olympics in the 100mand 200m. He also won three silver medals at the worldchampionships and four gold medals at the Europeanchampionships.

November 2010 - Suarez,then playing for Dutch teamAjax, earns a seven-match banand is fined by his club for bit-ing PSV Eindhoven midfielderOtman Bakkal.

October 2011 - Suarezracially abuses ManchesterUnited's Patrice Evra during aPremier League match at An-field and is banned for eightmatches and fined £40,000($60,000).

December 2011 - Aftermaking an offensive gesturetowards Fulham fans, he isgiven a one-match ban.

February 2012 - Suarez re-fuses to shake Evra's hand be-fore kick-off as United andLiverpool meet again at OldTrafford.

- Handles the ball prior toscoring Liverpool's winner inthe FA Cup third round tie atMansfield.

April 2013 - Bites Ivanovicon the right arm during hisside's 2-2 draw with Chelsea atAnfield.

LONDON (AFP) - Liverpoolstriker Luis Suarez found him-self in hot water again on Sun-day when his bite on Chelseadefender Branislav Ivanovicsparked universal condemna-tion. Here we look at theUruguay star's previous con-troversies.

February 2007 - Suarezmakes his international debutfor Uruguay against Colombiabut is sent off in the final min-utes after being shown a sec-ond yellow card for dissent.

July 2010 - During the 2010World Cup quarter-finals,Suarez prevents Ghana's Do-minic Adiyiah from scoring inthe final minute with a deliber-ate handball on the line and issubsequently sent off. Apenalty was awarded butmissed by Asamoah Gyan andfootage showed Suarez cele-brating on the sidelines.Uruguay eventually wentthrough to the last four onpenalties.

Football: Luis Suarez

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SPORTS

demonstrate effective leader-ship and governance of thesport".

Wholesale reforms are tak-ing place in swimming withthe appointment of two newbosses to Swimming Australiaand new programmes to boosthigh performance, team-build-ing and address psychologicalissues for athletes.

Leigh Nugent also recentlyresigned as head coach of thenational team.

The funding cut follows alacklustre showing at lastyear's London Olympics bythe once-dominant swimmingteam, which delivered its low-est tally in the pool sinceBarcelona 1992 -- one gold,six silver and three bronze.

It was also Australian swim-ming's first Games without anindividual gold medal sincethe 1976 Montreal Olympics.

Two inquiries commis-sioned after the disappointingperformance found the squadlacked leadership and that"toxic" incidents such asdrunkenness and bullying hadgone unchecked.

The ASC said it was aimingfor a top-five finish at the2016 Olympics and Para-lympics, top 15 at the 2014Winter Olympics, first placeon the medals table at nextyear's Commonwealth Gamesand 20 or more world champi-ons per year.

ASC chairman John Wyliesaid the funding allocations re-

becomes the third Knick to re-ceive the honor, joining Starksand Anthony Mason, who wonit for the 1994-95 campaign.

In his ninth year in the NBAafter being selected 18th by theNew Orleans Hornets in 2004,Smith’s scoring and rebound-ing totals both were careerhighs, helping New York (54-28) to an Atlantic Division titleand a No. 2 seed in the EasternConference for the NBA play-offs. It was his second yearwith the Knicks after playingthe previous five with the Den-ver Nuggets.

Smith received 484 of a pos-sible 1,084 points from a panelof 121 sports writers andbroadcasters in the U.S. andCanada. Crawford had 352votes, while Jack collected170, the National BasketballAssociation said in a state-ment.

The Knicks lead the BostonCeltics 1-0 in their best-of-seven first-round playoff se-ries.

-- J.R. Smith of the New YorkKnicks has been named theNational Basketball Associa-tion’s Sixth Man of the Year,the first player from the fran-chise to receive the awardsince John Starks in 1997.

Smith, who averaged 18.1points and 5.3 rebounds whilecoming off the bench for 80games during the regular sea-son, finished ahead of JamalCrawford of the Los AngelesClippers and Jarrett Jack of theGolden State Warriors.

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flected the plan to move Aus-tralian sport from "world classto world best".

Australian Olympic Com-mittee president John Coatessupported the moves.

Football Federation Aus-tralia had their allocation cutby 15 percent, but sailing re-ceived a 16.7 percent increaseto Aus$6.3 million on the backof three gold medals at theLondon Olympics.

Other sports to get a fundinglift were canoeing, rowing,rugby sevens and golf. Rugbysevens and golf will be addedto the Olympic programme forthe 2016 Games in Rio.

SYDNEY (AFP) - Two ofAustralia's biggest Olympicsports, swimming and athlet-ics, had their annual high-per-formance funding cut Mondayby the government-backedAustralian Sports Commission(ASC).

Swimming, the best-fundedof Australian sports saw its2013-14 allocation from theASC reduced by 5.8 percent toAus$8,165,000 ($8,389,000).

Athletics Australia's high-performance funding was cutby 3.8 percent toAus$6,570,000 for the sameperiod.

Swimming Australia wastold by the ASC that it neededto reduce overheads and "to

Sport: Australian swimming,athletics get funding cuts

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Heat drew firstblood in the best-of-seven Eastern Con-ference first-roundseries.

Ray Allen scored20 points, DwyaneWade added 16 andChris Bosh chippedin 15 for the Heat,who carried theirstrong form of thesecond half of theregular season seam-lessly into the play-offs.

Since the All-Starbreak the Heat hadgone 30-2 -- the bestsecond-half winningpercentage in NBA

history.Their league-leading regular

season record of 66-16 in-cluded a 27-game winningstreak and assured them ofhome-court advantagethroughout the playoffs.

Against Milwaukee, a teamthat limped into the playoffs asthe eighth seed in the East, theHeat showed they intended to

put the advantages they'veearned to good use.

They held the Bucks to 42percent shooting and out-re-bounded them 46-31.

The bad news for all theteams hoping to knock Miamioff their throne -- James thinksthe Heat can do a lot better.

"We know we can play a bet-ter game," James said. "We did-n't play our best game. We didn'tshoot the ball like we're capableof doing from the outside. Butthe one thing that we did do waswe shared the ball once again.We had 22 assists and we re-bounded the ball, too."

The game was one of twoEastern Conference first-roundseries openers on Sunday. Inthe other, Paul George's triple-double fueled the Indiana Pac-ers' 107-90 victory over theAtlanta Hawks in Indianapolis.

The Hawks will try to levelthe series when the Pacers hostgame two on Wednesday.

ets.Russell Westbrook deliv-

ered 19 points, 10 assists andeight rebounds while SergeIbaka added 17 points andseven rebounds for the victors.

James Harden, traded by theThunder to the Rockets prior tothe season, connected on just6-of-19 from the floor but ledHouston with 20 points. He gotlittle help from fellow starters

Jeremy Lin, Omer Asik, Chan-dler Parsons and Greg Smith,who combined for just 28points for a Rockets team inthe playoffs for the first timesince 2009.

After what coach KevinMcHale called a "nervy" start,Houston settled down, butnever got their potent offensefiring.

Durant said the Thunder,aiming to get back to the NBAfinals after falling to Miami inlast year's championship se-ries, weren't trying to make astatement.

While in Miami LeBron"King" James and the reigningNBA champion Miami Heatopened their playoff campaignin regal style Sunday with awire-to-wire 110-87 victoryover the Milwaukee Bucks.

James fell two assists shy ofa triple-double, scoring 27points and grabbing 10 re-bounds with eight assists as the

SAN ANTONIO (AFP) - SanAntonio's star trio of Tim Dun-can, Tony Parker and Manu Gi-nobili combined for 53 pointsSunday to lead the Spurs to a91-79 victory over the Los An-geles Lakers in their NBAplayoff opener.

With Lakers superstar KobeBryant sidelined by a tornAchilles tendon, the result wasexactly what many expected inthe first game of the best-of-seven Western Conferencefirst-round series.

And it was just one of thelopsided results in the West onSunday, followed by the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thun-der's 120-91 triumph over theHouston Rockets.

Duncan posted the 139thplayoff double-double of hiscareer with 17 points and 10 re-bounds.

Parker added 18 points andeight assists and also madethree steals, while Ginobili,showing no sign of the ham-string strain that sidelined himlate in the regular season, con-tributed 18 points.

Spurs point guard Parkernoted that without Bryant, theLakers were "a totally differentteam."

"Nothing worse than watch-ing your brothers struggle andu can't do anything about it,"Bryant tweeted after the gameended.

Even with point guard SteveNash back from an extendedinjury absence, the Lakers --the last team to clinch a playoffberth -- clearly have a toughtask ahead of them when theseries resumes on Wednesday.

Dwight Howard and PauGasol did what they could.Howard scored 20 points with15 rebounds and Gasol deliv-ered 16 points, 16 reboundsand six assists.

Nash scored 16 points in 29minutes on the floor, but theLakers couldn't overcome 18turnovers and lackluster 3-of-15 shooting from three-pointrange.

In Oklahoma City, KevinDurant scored 24 points withsix rebounds and four assists inthe Thunder's rout of the Rock-


San Antonio Spurs' Tim Duncan (21) grabs a rebound between LosAngeles Lakers' Jodie Meeks (20), Antawn Jamison (4) and PauGasol (16)

NBA: First-round playoff

Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade leaps to score betweenMilwaukee Bucks point guard Monta Ellis, left, and LarrySanders

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