Woman Escapes With Only Minor Injuries After Being Hit By Speeding Car In Brazil

According to local media, the 44-year-old known as Rosalina de Jesus, had just finished work and was on her way home when the accident occurred.

The woman who was crossing the road was hit from her back and was flung several metres before crashing to the ground.

However the woman suffered minor injuries to her arm and collarbone and was admitted out of hospital soon after.

The driver of the car was seen getting out of the car to help the lady and was visibly shocked though some onlookers told local media that he had looked drunk.

Hungary toxic sludge spill reaches Danube

Water alkalinity, a measure of river contamination, was already above normal in the major waterway, the official said.

Samples taken at the confluence of the Raab river and the Danube showed "alkalinity slightly above nornal, around 8.96 per cent to 9.07 per cent'', against a normal tally of eight per cent, the source said.

A wave of toxic mud was unleashed on Monday from the reservoir of an aluminium plant at Ajka, 160km west of Budapest.

The red mud travelled down the Raab river and reached the Danube waters at around 0630 GMT (1730 AEDT) at Gyor.

The industrial accident triggered by the collapse of walls at the factory reservoir on Monday has been described as an ecological disaster and is now threatening the entire ecosystem of the Danube, Europe's second longest river.

The wave of toxic sludge that has poured into seven villages in Hungary could take up to 12 months and tens of millions of dollars to clean up, officials have warned.

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Daniel Radcliffe talks about suicide, homosexuality and The Trevor Project

Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) spoke out in an MTV interview about how the recent suicides have affected him.

Daniel Radcliffe has dealt with the prejudice first hand being in the entertainment industry and being "accused" of being gay himself. Radcliffe is such a delight to listen to and quips that "People can say it if they want but I'm straight.....someone online even said I had a gay face?" he laughingly questioned what the process was for determining a "gay face".

"Learning about the suicide deaths of Tyler Clementi, Seth Walsh, Asher Walker, Billy Lucas and Justin Aaberg has been heartbreaking for me. These young people were bullied and tormented by people that should have been their friends. We have a responsibility to be better to each other, and accept each others' differences regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ability, or religion and stand up for someone when they're bullied."

"The Trevor Project" which is a 24-hour hot line for gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender and questioning youth has gained his attention and he talks about it in the interview and he has done a commercial for them as well.

"When a friend is feeling depressed or says they're thinking of killing themselves, we must take it seriously and get them help. My deepest sympathies go out to the families and friends of these excellent young people. And to all the young people who are being bullied right now, you are not alone. Call the Trevor Lifeline at 866 4-U-TREVOR, because there's always someone there who will listen and who can help." Dan Radcliffe.

In Colorado we know about these things first hand with the Columbine tragedy on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado. Rachel Scott was the first person killed during the shootings and her family has started a national organization to fight bullying called "Rachel's Challenge".

The group goes directly into the high schools with speakers and then follows up with small group and leadership training. Rachel Scott had lived her life believing that she could make a difference by going out of her way to be kid to everyone. Rachel's Challenge challenges youth to do the same thing, reach out a hand to the new kid, the un-popular, the un-talented, the shy, awkward kid, just one act of kindness can change a life and why not be the one that makes that difference. Rachels family found taped to the back of her dresser her hand print with the words

NEW DELHI: In the end, it turned out like a perfect Indian wedding. Shrugging off all the heartburns, last-minute snafus and accompanying chaos, everything fell into place; and it left both the baraatis and the dulhanwaalahs, with huge smiles on their faces.

The next few days will tell us if the honeymoon too, if not the marriage itself, will be as successful.

A festive crowd of almost 60,000 packed the stadium and lustily cheered through the ceremony. They cheered former President A P J Abdul Kalam (who got the biggest hand), UPA chief Sonia Gandhi, Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit and other luminaries. They cheered the performers. They gave a standing ovation to the Indian contingent. And, in a truly moving moment that warmed the hearts of even the most cynical, they reserved the second-biggest round of applause for the Pakistani contingent.

The only break in the bonhomie came when Organizing Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi was jeered as he began his speech. But the joy of the occasion took over, with Kalmadi concluding to cheers, though he referred to Kalam as Abdul Kalam Azad.

In three spellbinding hours, light, colour and technology merged to present a well-conceived and immaculate show. Yet, in the same space, India managed to showcase its rich history, culture and higher learning to the entire world.

Two complaints: It would have been nice to have had a greater Bollywood presence. The most popular symbol of Indian contemporary culture was clearly inadequately represented. And we could have done with fewer long-winded speeches.

On the positive side, the Nehru Stadium looked like a bride through the evening. It dazzled like a diamond, showing off its rubies and sapphires or emeralds and pearls intermittently. Up above, the aerostat hovered proudly like a giant spaceship, spewing colours and designs that would easily be at home in some other planet too.

The theme of the show was quite evidently, unity in diversity. It couldn't have been more appropriate, coming just a few days after the country peacefully accepted a court verdict on one of its bitterest disputes.

On Sunday night, the show-setters at the JN Stadium, almost prophetically, encapsulated the country's amazing commonality, lying just under the surface, by picking its most variegated strands and nuances and stitching them together into a single fabric.

Not surprisingly, the ceremony started with the segment called Rhythms of India: ingeniously though, it didn't assemble the entire array of sounds at the country's disposal. It simply brought together a family which has probably never met as one, and never will again: the drummers of India.

Expectedly, they were different in every aspect, right from the way they are played to the way they sound. Different timbres and different textures that make it virtually impossible to integrate into a symphony. Yet, here at the CWG, that's precisely what happened as they entwined into one powerful entity.

Dhols, dholaks and drums from 10 corners of the nation reverberated in the stadium, rising to a crescendo to capture the heartbeat of India.

Even before the buzz could dissipate, Hariharan sang Swagatam as a thousand students from Delhi's schools celebrated. Next, it was time to invite the athletes from 71 countries. As they marched in, the drums rolled and the lights twinkled. Australia, England, South Africa were given warm welcomes; but the loudest round was reserved for the Pakistani contingent, greeted like long-lost brothers.

Pretty soon, it was time for the real show-stoppers: India. It was back to ground reality, though, the very next instant. As Suresh Kalmadi was invited to give the welcome address, boos hissed out of angry hearts. Kalmadi, to his credit, braved through the moment and, vacillating between crinkled brows and tight smiles, carried out his job.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and CWG chairman Mike Fennell too were given their two minutes before, first, Prince Charles and then President Pratibha Patil declared the Games open.

Then, it was time to bring India together once again. They found it in the Tree of Knowledge, one of India's most alluring qualities through the ages.

As sheets descended from the spaceship and met the ground below, it transformed into a gigantic tree, reminiscent of the marvel in Cameron's Avatar.

Out of it emerged the various dance exponents of the country. Yet, once again, they managed to find a meeting point, doing bharatanatyam, kuchipidi, Manipuri to just one beat. Each choreographed by the master of their art, they blended into each other sweetly without losing their own purity and character too.

India's biggest contribution to the world, no doubt, is it's spirituality. In the segment called Yoga, its 5,000 years of learning was presented by school children even as mantras and sacred shlokas cast everybody in their trance-like spell.

The sombre mood, however, was promptly broken by the arrival of the Great Indian Journey, choreographed by Bansi Kaul. Heralded by the lilting number 'Chaiyya, Chaiyya,' the biggest unifier of the country for years, Indian Railways, won everybody's hearts. Accompanied by folk dancers from the heart of India, a million vignettes gave us a glimpse of our hinterland: doodhwalas, politicians in their ubiquitous Ambassadors, magicians, tongas.

The finale was reserved for India's one true international celebrity: A R Rahman. As the magician belted out the CWG theme song, the aerostat came alive in a bluster of colour and graphics. Fireworks shot out furiously, signalling that it was time for the spaceship to go. It was time for Jai

Ecuador's President Correa declares victory over rebels

Soldiers patrolled Ecuador's main cities, which gradually returned to calm. Quito's international airport and legislature were back to normal after being occupied briefly by rebel forces during the heavy gunfire and street clashes that killed eight people and left 274 wounded on Thursday.

"This was a great victory for the government," Mr Correa said in a nationally broadcast address from the presidential palace as he condemned Thursday's violence.

He insisted the rebellion was a coup attempt before his dramatic rescue by loyal military and police from a hospital in Quito, where the unrest kept him holed up for half a day.

Three police colonels now in custody are due to appear before an arraignment hearing for their role in what began as a protest in Quito against cuts to bonus payments linked to seniority, before spreading to police stations in at least five of the country's 24 provinces.

The head of the national police, General Freddy Martinez, resigned.

Mr Correa blamed supporters of Lucio Gutierrez - an ex-army colonel who was president from 2003 to 2005 - for the chaos on what he called "surely the saddest day of my entire government and one of the saddest of my life".

"Lives were lost, there were dozens of injured, Ecuadorans against Ecuadorans. How could it happen?" Mr Correa asked after ordering three days of mourning for the victims.

But he urged the public to support the police, saying the rebellion was the work of just "a few dozen bad elements".

"Continue to support the police, because they have 42,000 members and the vast majority of them are extraordinary human beings who risk their lives every day for us all," he said, vowing to pay "good salaries" that respects police officers' dignity.

Insurgents ambushed and shot his vehicle as it left the hospital, where he had been besieged for about 12 hours amid an intense shootout, according to Mr Correa.

The police sergeant protecting him was shot dead moments after soldiers and an elite police unit rushed into the hospital to rescue him, and the President said a second policeman, a soldier and a student died during the rescue operation.

Another officer was brain dead and another was left paraplegic, according to the President.

Only 600 police officers out of a force of about 40,000 took part in the uprising, according to Deputy Interior Minister Edwin Jarrin. But sources close to the revolt said at least 2300 officers had joined the protest.

Mr Correa, 47, a leftist ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who has been in office since 2007, was re-elected last year to a second term as president of the South American country of 14.5 million people.

Ecuador has a history riddled with violent political upheaval. Three of Mr Correa's predecessors from 1996 to 2006 - including Gutierrez - were ousted before completing their terms.

The US-educated economist has taken a tough stand with foreign investors and refused to repay some foreign debt, in moves welcomed by supporters who have blamed the effects of the economic crisis on foreign liberalism.

The United States and other regional allies rushed to voice support for the beleaguered president and urged a peaceful return to calm.

Mr Correa thanked neighbours Colombia and Peru for closing their borders during the tense standoff. The strong backing of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, a conservative, for Mr Correa's leftist government signalled warming ties between the two countries.

Though a state of emergency remained in place, schools throughout Ecuador, closed due to the rebellion, were to reopen as normal on Monday, the education ministry said.

Officials did not name the three detained police colonels, but local media identified them as Manuel Rivadeneira, Julio Cesar Cueva and Marcelo Echeverria.

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Australia TV host announces wrong winner for Top Model

Murdoch, the daughter-in-law of media baron Rupert Murdoch, was close to tears after realising she had mistakenly announced 19-year old Kelsey Martinovich as the winner of the Foxtel TV series during the live finale.

Sydney: Producers of Australia’s Next Top Model have been left red faced after supermodel host Sarah Murdoch announced the wrong winner in what newspapers said was the country’s most awkward TV moment.

Murdoch, the daughter-in-law of media baron Rupert Murdoch, was close to tears after realising she had mistakenly announced 19-year old Kelsey Martinovich as the winner of the Foxtel TV series during the live finale.

Martinovich had completed her acceptance speech before Murdoch backtracked on stage to reveal the real winner from a public vote was 18-year-old Gold Coast rival Amanda Ware.

"I don't know what to say right now. I'm feeling a bit sick about this," Murdoch told a 2,000-strong live audience.

"I'm so sorry. Oh my God, I don't know what to say. This is what happens when you have live TV folks, this is insane, insane, insane."

Foxtel is owned by Australian phone company Telstra, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and Consolidated Media Holdings.

Foxtel publicity director Jamie Campbell on Wednesday blamed a miscommunication between series directors in a broadcasting truck control room and Murdoch on stage.

Series judge and fashion designer Alex Perry told Sydney radio that Murdoch had made a genuine mistake, denying accusations in media reports that the bizarre mix-up was a publicity stunt.

"Everybody wants to tag something sinister on it and say it was done for ratings. I know Sarah and I know the executive producer. It's just not their style," Perry said.

Martinovich may have had a short-lived reign as Australia's Next Top Model, but it wasn't all bad news as Foxtel said she would receive a A$20,000 ($19,360) cash prize and trip to New York as consolation, almost matching Ware's series spoils.

Ware won an appearance in Harpers Bazaar magazine, a modelling contract, A$20,000, a trip to New York and a car.

'No confirmed deaths' after massive Mexican landslide

MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities say there are no confirmed deaths and only 11 missing in a landslide in the southern state of Oaxaca, backing off earlier estimates of possibly hundreds buried or dead.

Interior Minister Francisco Blake and Oaxaca Gov Ulises Ruiz say three adults and eight children are missing following the mudslide early Tuesday.

The officials spoke to Mexico's Televisa television network.

Oaxaca state Civil Protection operations coordinator Luis Marin EARLIERsaid 100 people were confirmed missing, but Oaxaca Governor Ulises Ruiz told the Televisa television network 500 to 1,000 people could be buried.

At least 100 homes were buried, and residents who made it out have had no success in digging out their neighbours, said Donato Vargas, an official in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec reached by a satellite telephone.

"We have been using a backhoe but there is a lot of mud. We can't even see the homes, we can't hear shouts, we can't hear anything," he said.

The landslide reportedly struck at about 4am on Tuesday local time (10pm Tuesday NZT).

An eighth person was killed in another mudslide in the state of Oaxaca. Weeks of heavy rains, including those brought by Hurricane Karl and Tropical Storm Matthew, have caused havoc and dozens of other deaths in southern Mexico, Central America and parts of South America.

Vargas said the slide dragged houses packed with sleeping families some 400 metres downhill, along with cars, livestock and light poles.

"We were all sleeping and all I heard was a loud noise and when I left the house I saw that the hill had fallen," Vargas said. "We were left without electricity, without telephone and we couldn't help them. There was no way to move the mud."

Vargas said he contacted the governor on the town's satellite phone but that eight hours after the slide no rescue crews had reached the area.

"There is no way to communicate, the roads are shut down. All we have is this satellite phone," Vargas said.

Meanwhile, Vargas said there is another hill about to give way in another area of the community of 9,000 people.

"We are in a serious risk situation," Vargas said. "In all of our neighbourhoods there are houses and roads cracked and about to fall."

Rescuers were flying in from Mexico City and emergency personnel have been sent to the town about 80 kilometres east of Oaxaca, the closest large city.

"There has been lots of rain, rivers have overflowed and we're having a hard time reaching the area because there are landslides on the roads," Ruiz said.

The federal Interior Department issued a statement that rescue workers from the army, navy and federal police were being flown to the area with rescue dogs and heavy machinery. Marin, the Oaxaca emergency official, said rescue crews had yet to reach the area.

President Felipe Calderon offered his condolences in a statement and said Interior Minister Francisco Blake would be in charge of coordinating federal rescue efforts.

Marin said on Tuesday that another slide, in the community of Villa Hidalgo, killed at least one person.

Huge swaths of riverside communities in southern Mexico were still under water on Tuesday - flooding exacerbated by the passage of Karl and Matthew. Before the landslide, at least 15 deaths in Mexico were blamed on the hurricane.

In Colombia, about 30 people were buried on Monday by a landslide northwest of Bogota, the capital. Many were changing from one bus to another because a mountain road was blocked.

In Honduras, authorities said four people, including a child, drowned in rivers and creeks swollen by Tropical Storm Matthew. The National Emergencies Commission said Tuesday that three adults died in the town of El Oregano and a 10-year-old child in the Caribbean coast town of La Lima.

Scientists still concerned about dying honey bees

For the better part of a decade, honey bees have been disappearing in many areas of the world and scientists are still trying to discover why.

In the face of global warming, economic recovery, unemployment, and the instability of our current political system, people may ask: What’s the big deal about a few missing bees?

It is a very big deal.

European honey bees, act as nature’s propagator’s of 75% of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and most everything that is fresh-harvested for human consumption. Approximately 100 crops are dependent upon pollination by bees or else they would fail to produce anything more than foliage.

According to beekeepers in the Western regions, there has been a gradual reduction of bee hive populations for years, but in 2007 a massive die-off got the world’s attention. It was reported to be a loss of 30-70% of hives of European honey bee colonies in the U.S. and parts of Canada.

The phenomenon was labeled Colony Collapse Disorder.

According to a recent PBS report, CCD has now spread to China, South America, and India.
Scientists now believe that CCD is a syndrome, rather than a disease and it may be caused by a combination of environmental and physiological factors.

Furthermore, in 2009, scientists discovered that an indicator for an impaired protein production is a common denominator in bees affected by CCD. It is still undetermined what may cure the problem.
Empty hives not only bode poorly for agriculture, but an entire industry of beekeepers, who make their living with contracts to transfer their hives to fields and orchards for the pollination services the worker-bees provide--have been economically devastated.

In some areas of England, stealing hives for the black market has begun to take hold. In Staffordshire a theft of 18 hives—about 800,000 bees, was stolen, depriving the owner of income from pollinating services and honey sales.

In addition, on September 15, 2010, about $10,000 worth of honey was stolen from David Neel of Freeland, Washington, depriving him and his family of that income. All of his bees were left, but trays full of honey were taken and empty trays were left in their place, leaving authorities to believe that another experienced bee keeper stole the honey. The honey will most likely be sold under another label, making it difficult to track the thief.

The loss of honey bees could have an enormous horticultural and economic affect on the world’s food supply.

In a related situation, bats have been disappearing, with a similar mysterious type of colony collapse. Bats eat tons of insects that can cause extensive damage to agricultural crops.

According to a 2010 study by the British Beekeepers Association, 80% of the bee population in their region made it through the severe winter, which offers some good news, but many experts agree that if the bees and bats were to disappear--the impact on the human race would be catastrophic.