Wisconsin Sikh temple gunman named as Wade Michael Page

The gunman suspected of shooting six people dead at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin on Sunday was a US Army veteran, according to US media.

The attacker, shot dead by police during the attack in a Milwaukee suburb, was Wade Michael Page, 40, law enforcement sources reportedly said.
US officials said Page had been discharged from the military after being demoted.
Police will hold a press conference at 11:00 EDT (15:00 GMT).
The gunman, described by witnesses as a bald, white man, entered the Wisconsin Sikh Temple temple in Oak Creek on Sunday morning and opened fire.
He killed six people and critically injured three people, including a policeman, before another officer shot the attacker dead.
'Tattoos investigated' The wounded police officer was shot eight or nine times in the face and extremities at close range with a handgun. But he was expected to make a full recovery, police said.
Authorities said the gunman had used a 9mm semi-automatic pistol, which was recovered at the scene.

Wade Michael Page reportedly served in the US Army between April 1992 and October 1998, ending his career at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

A federal official told the Associated Press news agency that Page was discharged after being reduced in rank from sergeant to specialist, although the official did not give a reason for the demotion.
According to US media, Page was a psychological operations specialist.
He was reportedly disciplined in June 1998 Page for being drunk on duty, and discharged for "patterns of misconduct".
Police said on Sunday they were treating the attack as an act of domestic terrorism.
But FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Milwaukee division, Teresa Carlson, said on Sunday night: "While the FBI is investigating whether this matter might be an act of domestic terrorism, no motive has been determined at this time."
On Sunday night a warrant was issued allowing the authorities to search Page's house in the town of Cudahy, a few miles from the temple.
Special Agent Thomas Ahern, of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, told ABC News that Page had tattoos which might suggest the attack was a hate crime.
But a member of the temple told CNN the attacker had a 9/11 tattoo on one arm.
The names of the victims have not yet been made public, although the president of the congregation and a priest were reportedly among the victims.
The temple in Oak creek was founded in 1997 and is said to have a congregation of about 400 worshippers.
Wisconsin, which passed a law in 2011 allowing citizens to carry a concealed weapon, has some of the most permissive gun laws in the US.

NASA Keingintahuan: berhasil mendarat di Mars

The US space agency has just landed a huge new robot rover on Mars.

The one-tonne vehicle, known as Curiosity, was reported to have landed in a deep crater near the planet's equator at 06:32 BST (05:32 GMT).
It will now embark on a mission of at least two years to look for evidence that Mars may once have supported life.
A signal confirming the rover was on the ground safely was relayed to Earth via Nasa's Odyssey satellite, which is in orbit around the Red Planet.
The success was greeted with a roar of approval here at mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

The first pictures from Mars began to be fed back immediately; high-resolution images will come later

Within minutes, the robot was returning its first low-resolution images - showing us its wheels and views to the horizon. A first colour image of Curiosity's surroundings should be returned in the next couple of days.
Engineers and scientists who have worked on this project for the best part of 10 years punched the air and hugged each other.
The rover's Twitter feed announced: "I'm safely on the surface of Mars. GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU!!!"
The descent through the atmosphere after a 570-million-km journey from Earth had been billed as the "seven minutes of terror" - the time it would take to complete a series of high-risk, automated manoeuvres that would slow the rover from an entry speed of 20,000km/h to allow its wheels to set down softly.

The Curiosity team had to wait 13 tense minutes for the signals from Odyssey and the lander to make their way back to Earth.

Data suggested the vehicle had hit the surface of Mars at a gentle 0.6m/s.
"It looked at least with my eyeball that we landed in a nice flat spot. Beautiful," said Adam Steltzner, who led the descent operation.
The JPL director, Charles Elachi, added: "Tonight was a great drama that was played. I felt like I was in an adventure movie but I kept telling myself this is real; and what a fantastic demonstration of what our nation and our agency can do."
That sense of national pride was picked up by US President Barack Obama's chief science adviser, John Holdren.
"Landing the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity on the Red Planet was by any measure the most challenging mission ever attempted in the history of planetary exploration," he said.
"And if anyone has been harbouring doubts about the status of US leadership in space, well there's a one tonne automobile-sized piece of American ingenuity sitting on the surface of the Red Planet right now."

This is the fourth rover Nasa has put on Mars, but its scale and sophistication dwarf all previous projects.

Its biggest instrument alone is nearly four times the mass of the very first robot rover deployed on the planet back in 1997.
Curiosity has been sent to investigate the central mountain inside Gale Crater that is more than 5km high.
It will climb the rise, and, as it does so, study rocks that were laid down billions of years ago in the presence of liquid water.
The vehicle will be scouring Mount Sharp in the crater's centre looking for evidence that past environments could have favoured microbial life.
It is a region that Curiosity project scientist John Grotzinger told the BBC's Horizon programme reads like a "book about the early environmental history of Mars".
Scientists warn, however, that this will be a slow mission - Curiosity is in no hurry.
For one thing, the rover has a plutonium battery that should give it far greater longevity than the solar-panelled power systems fitted to previous vehicles.
"People have got to realise this mission will be different," commented Steve Squyres, the lead scientist of the Opportunity and Spirit rovers put on the surface in 2004.
"When we landed we only thought we'd get 30 sols (Martian days) on the surface, so we had to hit the ground running. Curiosity has plenty of time," he told the BBC.
Initially, the rover is funded for two Earth years of operations. But many expect this mission to roll and roll for perhaps a decade or more.
Join Jonathan Amos for a special Discovery programme on Curiosity from JPL on the BBC World Service at 19:30 BST, Monday. The programme will be available for download after broadcast.

• (A) Curiosity will trundle around its landing site looking for interesting rock features to study. Its top speed is about 4cm/s
• (B) This mission has 17 cameras. They will identify particular targets, and a laser will zap those rocks to probe their chemistry
• (C) If the signal is significant, Curiosity will swing over instruments on its arm for close-up investigation. These include a microscope
• (D) Samples drilled from rock, or scooped from the soil, can be delivered to two hi-tech analysis labs inside the rover body
• (E) The results are sent to Earth through antennas on the rover deck. Return commands tell the rover where it should drive next

Suriah Biaya D'Affaires

 
 Syrian Charge D'Affaires in London resigns
Khaled al-Ayoubi, diplomat paling senior Suriah melayani di London telah mengundurkan diri, karena ia "tidak lagi bersedia untuk mewakili" rezim Bashar al-Assad

Pengunduran diri Khaled al-Ayoubi yang membuatnya salah satu diplomat Suriah yang paling menonjol untuk mereka kembali pada Presiden Suriah selama pemberontakan 16-bulan yang telah menelan lebih dari 15.000 jiwa. Dia belum membelot - resmi mengubah dukungannya dengan kaum oposisi Suriah - meskipun dipahami untuk mempertimbangkan langkah berikutnya.

Sebuah pernyataan dari Kementerian Luar Negeri kata Ayoubi telah memberitahu keputusannya itu pada Senin pagi. 
Bunyinya: "Bapak al-Ayoubi telah memberitahu kita bahwa ia tidak lagi bersedia untuk mewakili sebuah rezim yang telah melakukan tindakan kekerasan dan menindas tersebut terhadap rakyatnya sendiri, dan karena itu tidak dapat melanjutkan dalam posisinya.

"Bapak al-Ayoubi adalah diplomat paling senior Suriah melayani Tugas di London. Kepergiannya merupakan pukulan bagi rezim Assad. Ini menggambarkan rasa jijik dan putus asa tindakan rezim memprovokasi antara Aram dari semua lapisan masyarakat, dalam negeri dan luar negeri.

"Kami mendesak orang lain di sekitar Bashar Al-Assad untuk mengikuti teladan Bapak Al-Ayoubi itu, untuk memisahkan diri dari kejahatan kemanusiaan yang dilakukan terhadap rakyat Suriah dan untuk mendukung masa depan yang damai dan gratis untuk Suriah." 

German : Krisis Hutang

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble urge quick reforms to end a crisis of confidence in the euro, as markets rise on hopes of imminent ECB action to tackle the crisis.
17.25 That's where we leave our live coverage for today. We'll be back first thing in the morning to pick up where we left off. Until then you can visit our finance page for the latest economic and business news. Thanks for reading.

16.47 The European markets have drawn to a close for the day.

The FTSE 100 has rose 1.22pc, the DAX is up 1.37pc and the CAC climbed 1.17pc.

Angus Campbell, head of market analysis at Capital Spreads, said:

Investors continued to gorge themselves on equities as the prospects of further central bank stimulus in the very near term increased today. Even if they don’t get anything this week, the likelihood of something happening soon will only increase. It’s all eyes on the euro at the moment as European politicians made the right noises to compliment the comments made by the ECB President last week that he will do whatever it takes to protect the single currency.
Meanwhile, on Wall Street, markets have slid in early trading as investors await fresh employment data.
The Dow Jones is off by 0.16pc, the S&P 500 has lost 0.17pc and the Nasdaq is 0.47pc lower.

16.26 We now have the full statement issued this afternoon by Timothy Geithner and Wolfgang Schaeuble.
Both expressed confidence in Euro area member states' efforts to reform and move towards greater integration. They welcomed the Irish example of placing successfully longer term bonds last week and Portugal's continued success in meeting program commitments.
They discussed the considerable efforts undertaken by Spain and Italy, to pursue far-reaching fiscal and structural reforms. The US and Germany will continue to cooperate closely with their partners when advancing the policy agenda in autumn to further stabilize global and European economies.
15.51 The finance ministers also praised Spain and Italy's "considerable efforts" to "pursue far-reaching fiscal and structural reforms." It added:
Secretary Geithner and Minister Schaeuble also took note of statements from European leaders last week to take whatever steps are necessary to safeguard financial stability in the euro area.
15.45 Timothy Geithner and Wolfgang Schaeuble have issued a statement following their meeting today. It said that the pair had discussed:
the need for ongoing international co-operation and coordination to achieve sustainable public finances, reduce global macroeconomic imbalances and restore growth.
15.18 Spain has not, and will not, ask the EU to buy Spanish government debt to ease its borrowing costs, the head of the Spanish Treasury has insisted. Inigo Fernandez de Mesa told Spanish daily Expansion:
It is not on Spain's agenda to ask for help from the fund and to ask that it buy debt. Far from it [...] This has not happened and I can assure you that it is not going to.
14.49 The ECB did not buy any bonds on the secondary market last week, data from the central bank show. We hope to get more clarity on whether the ECB plans to buy any debt and when at Mario Draghi's interest rate press conference on Thursday.
...or not. Here's how "clear" former ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet was when the central bank started buying peripheral debt last year:
[On] the SMP: don’t expect me to say anything more than what I have said before. Since the very beginning of the SMP, I have never said anything, except that, if we intervene, we intervene. You will see what we will have done, and we will publish this information. I will not say any more on that [...]everything is driven by the consideration of the fact that we are the central bank for 17 countries and that we have to observe monetary policy transmission in this very vast area, which is the size of the United States of America. All we are doing in this domain is helping to restore better monetary policy transmission, obviously in exceptionally difficult circumstances.
14.16 US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has arrived in Germany for "informal talks" with Wolfgang Schaeuble, Germany's finance minister. The pair were due to hold a press briefing after their meeting, but due to time constraints, will issue a statement instead:

14.01 The EU must press ahead with proposals to issue joint debt "one way or another," according to the EU's commissioner for social affairs.
László Andor told German newswire DPA:
The EU member states try to muddle through by various solutions. The European Central Bank - I think luckily - has been very innovative. Some of its measures gave us some extra time to think about proper sustainable solutions [...] But what I have always said: Either this crisis - or the next - will bring about the eurobonds as they are mostly called [...] The point is the mutualisation of the public debt, one way or another.
13.43 Meanwhile, European debt inspectors continue to scrutinise the country's finances under the watchful eye of Greek police...

_{European Commission director Matthias Morse, flanked by Greek police, leaves the country's finance ministry in Athens (Photo: Reuters).}
13.31 The coalition government in Greece will meet this evening to try to agree on an €11.5bn package of cuts that will unlock the next tranche of its EU/IMF bail-out.
Junior coalition partners have so far refused to sign off on the new proposals, and a government spokesman refused to rule out new pension and salary cuts. The meeting will begin at around 4pm UK time.
The uncertainty in Greece comes amid rolling strikes by ATEBank employees, who were protesting the state-run bank's takeover by Piraeus Bank.
Separately, members of Greek bank union OTOE are also on strike today over austerity cuts.

_{A woman leaves a branch of the National Bank of Greece during a 24-hour strike by bank employees in Athens. The sign reads: "24-hour strike" (Photo: Reuters).}
12.46 Stock markets are trading higher this lunchtime. The FTSE 100 in London is still up 0.5pc at 5,657.09. The FTSE Mib in Milan is up 2pc, at 13,869.54, while the IBEX 35 in Madrid is up 1.5pc at 6,717.90.
Italian borrowing costs have edged up following this morning's bond auction. The yield on 10-year debt is back above 6pc, at 6.03pc, while Spanish 10-year yields have remained steady, at 6.6pc.
12.03 As German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble prepares to meet US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on the island of Sylt today, Rachel Cooper reports on the growing number of embattled eurozone leaders holidaying in their own country or fairly close by:
The North Sea island, famed for its 40km sandy beach, might seem an unusual location for a pow-wow to discuss the spiralling debt crisis, but it is Mr Schaeuble's traditional holiday destination. Just off the German coast, near the Danish border, Sylt is the northernmost island of Germany and is known for its tourist resorts, particularly Westerland and Kampen.
Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, has left Berlin for her usual two-to-three-week break. She has been spotted at the Bayreuth Festival, the annual month-long celebration of Richard Wagner, and Bild reported that she will then travel with her husband to the Italian alpine region of South Tyrol, where she holidayed in the past two years.
In a nod to austerity, Mrs Merkel sported the same dress - a petrol-blue full-length gown - to the Bayreuth Festival that she wore to the same event four years ago.

11.39 The ECB announces the amount of debt it bought on the secondary market on its website every Monday at around 2.30pm. The last time it used the SMP was back in March.
11.36 More from JP Morgan:
We expect no long-term positive impact on peripheral spreads from a resumption of SMP. This reflects several factors.
• First, we expect ECB implementation to remain half-hearted and reactive.
• Second, the impact on peripheral sovereign yields will likely be smaller this time due to the issue of private sector subordination, a point which was hammered home by the preferential treatment given to the ECB during Greek PSI.
• Third, Spain needs to significantly ramp up its issuance pace in order to cover its funding needs for the rest of the year. We estimate that Spain needs to nearly double its issuance pace going forward. These figures do not include potential funding needs due to support facilities announced for the Spanish regions.
• Fourth, secondary market selling pressure from non-domestic holders of Spanish debt will continue, as investors sell into the SMP bid due to lack of market demand elsewhere. Net, we expect these factors to outweigh the positive impact from ECB bond-buying over the long-term, especially if Spain gets downgraded to sub-investment grade later in the year, which is our base case.
11.31 Analysts at JP Morgan have also examined how much impact the ECB's bond buying programme would have if it was re-activated. Its conclusion? Not much:
Since 2010, the ECB has accumulated a total portfolio of peripheral sovereign debt of around €225bn, dominated by Italy, Greece and Spain (Exhibit 4). However, previous ECB attempts have been mainly reactive. That is, the ECB wants to defuse a crisis but also wants the fiscal authorities to ultimately bear the load. Thus, prior bouts of SMP buying have started out with a bang but tapered off significantly after 3-6 weeks. In late 2011 the ECB had to pick up the pace again when Italian and Spanish yields approached new highs; this also led to the introduction of 3Y LTROs in December.

11.08 The German government has "full confidence" in the ECB and sees no reason for legal action against the central bank.
Spokeswoman Georg Streiter was responding to comments made by German MP Joerg-Uwe Hahn this morning (see 09.21) that the government should sue the central bank over its purchases of peripheral debt.
Mr Streiter also said that the government's position on eurobonds remained unchanged, and shared debt liability was not in the country's interest.
10.49 Meanwhile, confidence across the eurozone slipped again in July, according to a monthly survey by the European Commission.
A fall in confidence across "all sectors" saw the EC's Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) for the eurozone fall to 87.9 in July (from 89.9), while the EU reading fell to 89.0 (from 90.4). This compares with a long run average of 100.
A "loss of confidence in the services sector" was the main driver of the fall in the EU, the EC said, while the euro area saw the biggest declines in industry and among consumers.
10.33 Commenting on the Italian auction, Annalisa Piazza at Newedge Strategy, said:
Lower yields are good news for the Italian Tesoro and rising borrowing costs is one of the major threat for the Italian fiscal consolidation at the current juncture. However, the relatively low bid/cover ratios remain a sign that dealers are extremely suspicious on the recent tightening of EMU periphery's spreads. ECB policymakers sounded convinced that the re-activation of the SMP was needed in the near term as spiking spreads are a clear obstacle to the smooth transmission mechanism of the ECB monetary policy. However, the ECB meeting is a few days away and market participants are still reluctant on the possible outcome of the meeting and they seem to be concerned about a possible disappointment.

10.21 Italy has managed to sell medium and long term debt this morning at lower rates than at a previous auction in June.
The Treasury sold €2.5bn of 10 year debt at average yields of 5.96pc, compared with 6.19pc at the last auction, €2.24bn of five year debt at average rates of 5.29pc (vs. 5.84pc), and €750m of three year debt at average yields of 4.49pc.
Demand remained steady, with around 1.3 bidders per bond on offer at the ten-year auction.
09.58 It's a week of meetings this week. Today, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner meets German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble and ECB president Mario Draghi.
On Thursday, Italian PM Mario Monti will meet his Spanish counterpart Mariano Rajoy in Madrid.
In between all that, we'll get interest rate decisions on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Bank of England, ECB and Federal Reserve in America are all expected to keep interest rates on hold this week, despite calls from some economists to ease monetary policy further.
09.52 The Bank of England also said that mortgage approvals and lending slumped to its lowest level since December 2010 last month, reflecting broader economic weakness due to extra public holidays and wet weather.
09.47 The amount of money swirling around the financial system has collapsed to new lows.
The Bank of England figures showed that the UK's broad money supply, M4, shrank by 5.2pc on an annual basis in June to its lowest level since records began in 1983.
Commenting on the figures, Samuel Tombs at Capital Economics, said:
Given our view that the euro-zone crisis is likely to intensify, thereby weakening UK banks, we continue to expect weak money and credit growth to undermine the pace of the economic recovery for some time to come.

09.29 Analysts at Societe Generale argue in a note this morning that even if the ECB was to restart its Securities Markets Programme (SMP), it would not lower peripheral borrowing costs over the long term:
Restarting the SMP purchases is another matter. The Bundesbank was never keen on the idea, yet this didn’t stop the ECB from relaunching the programme last August. Graph 1 shows that it was first launched in May 2010, then petering out, only to be restarted in August 2011 before petering out again. The bullish impetus only lasted a few days last August.
A repeat of August 2011 is possible, even if the Bundesbank drags its feet. Little does it matter to the investor who the official buyer is (EFSF or Eurosystem). Investors will just want to sell their holdings at prices perceived to be above market clearing levels compared to longer term prospects. So a buy programme will just result in a transfer of ownership. It will not have a durable impact on lower yields
But for now the threat of intervention can buy governments a little time, and contain spreads, or even push them tighter. Buying will at best be a palliative, not a game changer, though can still have a large near-term impact on markets, as August 2011 saw.

09.21 Not everyone is happy with the idea of the ECB going on a bond buying spree, and one member of Angela Merkel's junior coalition party has called on the German government to sue the central bank for hoovering up peripheral debt on the secondary market. Joerg-Uwe Hahn told Die Welt:
The European treaties allow member states to sue the ECB [...] It's time to open the toolbox of the (EU's) Lisbon Treaty and see how one can ensure that the ECB is brought into line to focus on its original task: monetary stability.

08.52 Today's leader column in the Financial Times argues that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should ask EU leaders for a refund on its loans to the indebted country and "confine its own role to giving open and honest assessments of the ensuing rescue attempt." More from the FT:
...the longer the IMF participates in a rescue it does not itself believe in, the greater the cost will be to its reputation and support outside the eurozone. Should any writedown on its lending even be proposed, it would enrage other shareholders, including the US and the big emerging economies. Its implementation would be a disaster, raising costs for other borrowers and in effect crippling the institution.
On balance, the fund was right to take the risk of getting involved in Greece. It has offered unrivalled technical competence and has tried to inject a sense of reality into the proceedings. But the risks to its reputation have now begun to outweigh the limited good it has been doing. The eurozone has money. It needs an impartial and outspoken adviser, not a co-opted fellow creditor. The IMF should look at how to extricate itself from further bankrolling the Greek rescue.
08.34 Reports that the ECB could take losses on Greek debt have gained traction over the weekend.
Intensive discussions are now reportedly under way among EU policy-makers that could see the European Central Bank and a number of central banks take a significant write-down on their Greek bonds as the price for avoiding a eurozone break-up and losing its weakest link.

08.24 Spanish and Italian borrowing costs have also continued to fall.
Yields on Spanish and Italian 10-year debt are currently at 6.66pc and 5.88pc respectively.
08.20 It was Monti and Merkel's turn this weekend to promise do everything to protect the eurozone. And so far this morning, the comments by the German chancellor and Italian PM have kept markets in the black.
The FTSE 100 is up 0.3pc, at 5,643.09, while the CAC 40 in Paris is up 0.5pc at 3,296.64 and Frankfurt's DAX is up 0.7pc at 6,734.40. The IBEX 35 in Madrid is flat, at 6,619.10.
08.12 The eurozone has "no time to lose" (sound familiar?), and leaders "must make extremely clear with all available means that we are determined to ensure the financial stability of the currency union," Jean-Claude Juncker has said.
Mr Juncker, who leads the Eurogroup of finance ministers in the 17-nation bloc, told German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung (translation by AP):
I don't want to raise expectations, but I must say that we have arrived at a decisive point [...] the euro countries have arrived a point where we must make extremely clear with all available means that we are determined to ensure the financial stability of the currency union.
I have no doubt that we will implement the decisions of the last summit [...] It still has to be decided what exactly we will do when. That depends on the developments of the coming days and how fast we have to react [...] and we will, as Draghi says, see results.
08.03 We wake to news this morning that the Spanish economy contracted by 0.4pc in the second quarter. This follows a 0.3pc contraction in the previous quarter. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by 1pc.
The figures affirm the Bank of Spain's forecasts earlier this month.

08.00 Good morning and welcome back to our live coverage of the European debt crisis.

Rory Stewart meninggalkan suaminya, patah hati di Afghanistan

Brad Pitt : untuk membuat sebuah film tentang Rory Stewart, anggota parlemen Tory, yang  meninggalkan kekasih, suaminya di Afghanistan.

Ketika Prof Nuh Coburn mengajukan diri untuk bekerja di Afghanistan yang dilanda perang untuk badan amal yang didirikan oleh Rory Stewart dan Pangeran Wales, istrinya, Shoshana, setuju untuk pergi bersamanya.

Dia berjanji orangtuanya bahwa ia akan tinggal tidak lebih dari sembilan bulan. Sedikit yang Prof Coburn tahu, bagaimanapun, bahwa pernikahan pasangan itu akan pendiri dan bahwa istrinya akan berakhir menjadi terpesona oleh Stewart, yang sekarang menjadi menonjol Tory MP

"Nuh benar-benar hancur ketika pernikahannya rusak," kata seorang teman dari antropolog Amerika terkemuka Mandrake. "Dia mencintai Shoshana sangat mahal."

Dalam beberapa bulan setelah tiba di Afghanistan dengan Prof Coburn, Shoshana, 31, diminta menjadi kepala eksekutif dari Yayasan Gunung Turquoise, yang Stewart mengatur dengan Pangeran Charles pada tahun 2006. Dia kemudian menjadi direktur pelaksana.

Stewart, 39, yang bekerja sebagai guru untuk Pangeran William dan Harry, didirikan badan amal untuk membantu pengrajin Afghanistan mencari nafkah. September lalu, Shoshana, yang kemudian oleh Prof Coburn bercerai, pindah ke London untuk hidup dengan MP. Dia juga memiliki rumah konstituensi di Penrith dan Perbatasan. 

Harapan Inggris

Harapan Inggris mulai Cemas dengan bersepeda yang tersisa 

Mark Cavendish's Olympic dream has been left in tatters Photo: GETTY

 

Mimpi Olimpiade Mark Cavendish telah meninggalkan compang-camping sebagai baris meletus antara BBC dan penyelenggara Olimpiade atas cakupan dari perlombaan

 

Meskipun didukung oleh tim impian Inggris, termasuk Tur Prancis pemenang Bradley Wiggins, ia gagal masuk ke posisi di mana ia bisa menang.

Tim telah berusaha untuk mengontrol ras 156-mil dari awal, naik menjelang pembentukan kelompok utama pengendara dalam lomba Jalan Olimpiade.

Tapi mereka dipukuli oleh sekelompok yang menyelinap pergi selama jangka in ke London dan, meskipun upaya Wiggins khususnya, pembalap Inggris tidak bisa kembali berhubungan untuk memungkinkan Cavendish untuk sprint untuk baris.

Sebuah Mark Cavendish kecewa mengatakan pengendara sepeda Inggris menjadi korban kesuksesan sendiri terakhir mereka. Dia berkata: "Tidak ada yang ingin membantu kita (Mereka) hanya duduk (Mereka) senang melihat kami kalah...

"Kita tidak bisa membuat excuses.Mereka melakukan segalanya yang kami katakan kami akan dan lebih Aku tidak punya medali tapi aku bisa benar-benar bangga dengan tim saya dan benar-benar bangga dengan negara saya.. 

walikota dipaksa untuk membayar £ 70 untuk taksi setelah mobil listrik kehabisan daya

Yang ramah lingkungan Renault ZE Fluence disewakan ke Brighton dan Hove tapi kiri walikota Bill Randall terdampar setelah kunjungan ke Chichester, Sussex.

Insiden itu berarti walikota harus menghabiskan sekitar £ 70 pada taksi untuk mendapatkan, (dia ) untuk acara lain tepat waktu.

Ini akan menjadi cukup uang untuk mengisi penuh mobil listrik 28 kali.

Merek baru Renault Fluence ZE biaya sekitar sebulan £ 17.500 dan £ 76 per untuk penyewaan baterai.

Mobil itu tidak akan dijual umum sampai musim gugur tahun ini, tetapi yang satu bersandar oleh Renault ke dewan secara sementara.

Ingris : Krisis Kacang Karna Cuaca Buruk

Kacang polong Inggris mungkin tidak aktif, menu musim panas ini, para ahli telah memperingatkan, setelah cuaca buruk di negara itu menghasilkan panen terburuk selama beberapa dekade.

Kekeringan kondisi diikuti oleh curah hujan rekor memiliki petani kiri di seluruh Inggris menghadapi penurunan dramatis dalam panen tanaman mereka, senilai puluhan juta pound.

Sebagai ahli memperingatkan bahwa hasil keluarga Inggris akan membayar lebih untuk yang paling klasik sayuran Inggris musim panas ini, sebagai pengecer berjuang untuk memenuhi permintaan.

Petani mengatakan bahwa tanaman kacang relatif "rumit" dan sebagai hasilnya mudah rusak oleh kondisi yang salah.

Namun kondisi kekeringan awal tahun ini diikuti oleh hujan lebat catatan, langit kusam dan suhu dingin musim panas ini telah mengakibatkan kerusakan tanaman menghancurkan.

Telah meninggalkan petani, dari East Anglia ke Skotlandia, menghadapi hasil jatuh hingga 40 persen pada tanaman yang sangat berharga, berpotensi bernilai sampai dengan £ 80million.

London : untuk menggelar upacara pembukaan Olimpiade

London (CNN) -- Few shows can claim such an audience. As the dramatic spectacle of the Olympics Games opening ceremony in London unfolds Friday night, millions of people around the world will be glued to their television sets.

Some tens of thousands more are lucky enough to have a seat inside the Olympic Stadium, the centerpiece of the Olympic Park in east London.

Dubbed Isles of Wonder, it promises to be quite a show -- but then it needs to be.

The opening ceremony, attended not only by thousands of athletes but also Queen Elizabeth II and more than 100 visiting heads of state and foreign dignitaries, sets the scene for the Games to come.

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And the organizers of the London Games are well aware they have a tough act to follow after the Beijing extravaganza four years ago, which featured thousands of drummers, acrobats, martial artists and dancers performing under a light display at the soaring "Bird's Nest" Stadium.

So what can those watching the ceremony this time around expect to see?

Some details have been released already, but many more remain a closely guarded secret.

Keeping a secret this big isn't easy, though, when there are thousands of performers and technicians involved, not to mention the audiences for two dress rehearsals this week.

A Twitter hashtag, #savethesurprise, started by Olympic organizers to appeal to those in the know not to spoil the show for others, has been embraced by many, although not all.

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Giant screens also displayed the message within the stadium during the rehearsals. Those who opted not to play along have incurred the social-media wrath of many who do want to "save the surprise."

What the organizers have revealed already is that the show, masterminded by artistic director Danny Boyle, best known for the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionare," draws its inspiration from Shakespeare's "The Tempest."

It will begin at 9 p.m. local time (4 p.m. ET) with the tolling of the largest harmonically tuned bell in Europe, cast by the nearby Whitechapel Foundry.

The show's opening scene -- dubbed "Green and Pleasant," after a line from poet William Blake's Jerusalem -- will then unfurl, presenting an idyllic view of the British countryside.

The elaborate set will comprise rolling hills, fields and rivers, complete with picnicking families, sport being played on a village green and real farmyard animals.

These will include ducks, geese, 12 horses, three cows, 70 sheep and three sheepdogs to keep them in line.

The national flower of each of the four nations that make up the United Kingdom will also be represented -- the rose of England, the Scottish thistle, Welsh daffodil and flax from Northern Ireland -- organizers say.

In case the heavens don't open for real, Boyle has lined up fake clouds to shade his pastoral scene.

It's expected that three more set-pieces will follow, including a special sequence celebrating the "best of British," featuring volunteer performers from the NHS, or National Health Service.

Then will follow the traditional elements of the ceremony, as required under the International Olympic Committee charter, the organizers say.

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The Queen will be greeted at the entrance to the stadium by IOC president Jacques Rogge.

Then the athletes -- who, after all, are the real stars of the Olympic show -- enter the stadium, team by team in alphabetical order, apart from Greece, which enters first in recognition of its status as the birthplace of the Games, and Great Britain as the host nation, which enters last.

Each team delegation will be led in the parade by a visiting head of state or dignitary -- in the case of Team USA, by Michelle Obama, who has said the honor "is truly a dream come true."

After speeches from Olympic officials -- including Sebastian Coe, head of the London organizing committee and himself a former gold medallist, the Queen will declare the Games open and the Olympic flag will be hoisted above the Stadium, to fly throughout the event.

A participating athlete, judge and coach from Britain will then take an oath vowing to compete and judge according to the rules of their respective sport, one hand holding the flag and the other held aloft.

The grand finale will see the Olympic torch enter the stadium, the last stage in a 70-day relay around the United Kingdom, and set the Olympic cauldron aflame, symbolizing the beginning of the Games.

Who the final torchbearer will be has been the subject of much speculation.

One name mentioned has been that of footballer David Beckham, although he told CNN Tuesday that the honor should go to someone who has competed at the Games. Others speculate that a group of athletes could be involved.

Whoever it turns out to be will have the eyes of the world upon them as they wrap up a spectacle that, in the words of Boyle, aims to "be as unpredictable and inventive as the British people."

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Hujan Deras Di Beijing Sampai Banjir dan Lumpur

Hong Kong (CNN) -- More rain was forecast for flood-hit Beijing Wednesday, as residents continued clearing debris from the weekend deluge amid signs government censors were doing their own mop-up job on social media.

On Saturday, the heaviest rain in 60 years overwhelmed Beijing's drainage system, submerging cars, houses and provoking online anger over the government's lack of preparation and response.

Early Wednesday, it appeared that the disaster may have claimed the jobs of two of the city's most senior officials. However, neither resignation of the Beijing mayor or vice mayor were officially linked to the flood response.

In fact, observers said the resignations could be part of routine leadership reshuffle. Media reports said the city's legislature is now in session and its agenda includes appointments and dismissals.

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However, soon after state media reported the resignation of Beijing mayor Guo Jinlong and vice mayor Ji Lin, comments about their departure on China's Sina Weibo were being blocked and deleted.

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State media gave no reason for the resignation of vice mayor Ji Lin. However, it said mayor Guo Jinlong had stepped down following his election as secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on July 3.

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Wang Anshun, the vice Party chief of Beijing, has been appointed as vice mayor and acting mayor, Xinhua said.

The departure of two of Beijing's most senior officials comes just four days after the heaviest rain in 60 years submerged large parts of the Chinese capital.

On Sunday, state media put the official death toll in Beijing at 37. However, amid the barrage of online criticism about the government's response to the disaster, speculation swirled that the figure could be much higher.

Across the country, 111 were declared dead and 47 missing. Nine million people had been affected, state media said.

On Tuesday, spokeswoman Wang Hui told reporters that the government was not concealing the true death toll and that updated figures would be released as soon as they're known.

"I want to say I hope everyone will not speculate that the Beijing government is hiding the death toll," said Wang, according to the Associated Press.

"Doing the inspection work is not easy. Do believe us that we will speak the truth," she said. "If there are new figures we will immediately tell you."

In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, comments on Weibo exposed the anger many Beijingers felt about the inability of their city's infrastructure to cope with the downpour.

The Beijing-based media group, Caixin wrote: "Why is this happening once and again? Year after year Beijing faces the same challenge, not even hosting the Olympics can provide a solution. That's how vulnerable our capital city can be."

Another user, chuntiangushi, wrote: "We can host the most luxurious Olympics and send satellites into space but can never seem to fix this drainage system. What a shame.

Others were angry that there were no emergency warnings, nor government shelters or special hotlines to offer flood advice.

Their ire was further stirred by an announcement Tuesday that Beijing would launch a "large" fundraising campaign, to which local citizens would be encouraged to donate for disaster relief.

"Donation again? I won't give them a penny. I'm already pay tax. What did you do with my money?" one user wrote. Another said: "Chinese government is wealthy enough to help Africa, the Philippines and North Korea but they don't have the money to help its own people get over the disaster."

More rain was forecast to hit Beijing late Wednesday to Thursday morning, Xinhua reported, adding that more than 50 millimeters of rain could fall on the eastern parts of the city.

A yellow alert -- the third highest on a scale of five -- had been issued for the districts of Fangshan, Mentougou, Huairou, Pinggu and Shijingshan, as well as Miyun county, which are at risk of mudslides and cave-ins, Xinhua said.

Saturday's downpour caused chaos across Beijing, submerging 84 cars along a 900-meter stretch of the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau expressway. The road reopened to traffic around midday Tuesday after hundreds of rescuers spent two days pulling the cars out.

A team of 10 divers worked for 10 hours straight to check the cars for occupants, Xinhua said, adding that they found three bodies.

Disaster relief efforts were still underway in the worst hit district of Fangshan Wednesday, according to state media Xinhua, which published images of upturned cars and mud-soaked homes.

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