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Twelve yearsafterthe“waronterror”began, 150 Fils AUDY A 5 03 RJB1,13 HNo:15819 SATURDAY, 1434 AH MAY RAJAB 15, 25,2013 Obama seeksendto US ‘waronterror’ Cautious welcometodronesspeech as talksloom seeks tounify Syria opposition Airlines flightPK709boundforManchesterfromLahore,wasdivertedtoStanstedfollowinganincidentonboard. — AP LONDON: PoliceandrescueservicevehiclesyesterdayatStanstedAirport,Essex,England,afterPakistanInternational Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV).—Reuters which hascalled ittheMiddleEastRespiratory deaths worldwide, accordingtotheWHO, killing 17.Theyareamong44 casesand22 year andhasbeenfoundin33 peoplethere, and pneumonia,emergedinSaudi Arabialast WHO director-generalMargaretChan said. ond teamofexpertsinthecoming weeks, gers atairportsorentrypoints,willsentasec- travel tothekingdomorscreeningofpassen- currently recommendinganyrestrictionson lions ofMuslims.TheUNagency,whichisnot the annualhajpilgrimage,whichattractsmil- new SARS-likevirustodrawupadviceaheadof Arabia digdeeperintodeadlyoutbreaksofa (WHO) saidyesterdaythatitwouldhelpSaudi GENEVA: UK-bound Pakistanplanediverted virus beforeHajj Saudi probenew The virus,whichcancausecoughing, fever WHO tohelp The WorldHealthOrganization Two menarrested,Britainstillinshock 9 were launched to investigateaninci- Defense confirmed thatTyphoonjets Stansted Airport.TheUKMinistry of was divertedbythefighter jets to Pakistan, toManchesterAirportwhen it P709 wastravelingfromLahore, ized todiscusstheinvestigation. Flight anonymity becausehewasnotauthor- a suspectedterrorattack. soldier waskilledonaLondonstreetin further rattledtheUKjustdaysaftera were stillinvestigating,buttheincident appear terror-related,thoughpolice International Airlinesflightdidnot said thesituationinvolvingPakistan the aircraft.ABritishsecurityofficial sengers onsuspicionofendangering London andarrestingtwoBritishpas- runway atanairportontheoutskirtsof from Pakistan,divertingittoanisolated liner carryingmorethan300people yesterday tointerceptacommercialair- LONDON: The securityofficialrequested Britain scrambledfighterjets 62 atColonial control witha Palmer takes 45 recovered sofar, policeadded.—AP but nosuspicious itemshavebeen will beexaminedbyforensicspecialists police saidinastatement.The plane tion wheretheyfacequestioning, the The suspectsweretakentoapolice sta- two Britishnationals,aged30and 41. armed officersentereditandarrested the Boeing777landedat2:15 p.m., to anaircraft.Theforcesaidthatafter a.m. EDT)thatathreathadbeenmade at 1:20pmlocaltime(12:20GMT,8:20 that thepilothadraisedanalarm. there hadbeenaterroristthreatand away, theflightcrewtoldpassengers said thatafterthemenweretaken arrested oncetheplanelanded.Rizvi during theflightwerehandcuffedand had triedtomovetowardthecockpit Pakistan’s GEOTVthattwomenwho gave nofurtherdetails. dent involvingacivilianaircraftbut Essex Policesaidtheywerenotified Passenger NaumanRizvitold Min Max 29º 42º LOCAL SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

Kuwaiti researcher Laila Bastaki wins WHO prize

GENEVA: Kuwaiti researcher Dr Laila Bastaki won the World Health Organization (WHO) prize, granted by the United Arab Emirates Health Foundation 2013, which constitutes a significant source of pride to Kuwait, stressed Kuwait’s Minister of Health, Dr Mohammad Al- Haifi here yesterday. In a statement to KUNA, the minister praised Dr Bastaki’s efforts and her leading role in scientific researching in genetic diseases that have a great impact on several aspects, espe- cially the social sphere. Bastaki’s achievement reflects the State of Kuwait’s interest in KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad seen greeting a youth before the start of pearl diving trip. scientific researching that is fos- (Right) A youth taking part in the competition. tered by the constitution as it is significant in all natural and human sciences, said Dr. Al-Haifi. Kuwaiti youths prepare for “Dr. Bastaki’s choice stems from her belief in con- tributing to the genetic research and disorders as well as expanding the provision of such services in Kuwait,” said annual pearl diving trip Mahmoud Fekri, Assistant Undersecretary for Health Policies at the Health Ministry, in a speech during the award ceremony Thursday evening. He pointed out the KUWAIT: Chairman of the Kuwaiti Marine Sports Club Lt. the marine life and the linkage of the current generation multi-achievements of Dr. Bastaki, which include reestab- General Fahad Al-Fahad said that His Highness the Amir with this heritage. The club has organized the 7th trip in lishing newborn screening program to detect genetic Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad has sponsored the revival of the 1995 with the participation of all Gulf States and the 21st disorders, establishing registration units for metabolic, 25th annual pearls diving trip which is organized by trip which was organized to visit Bahrain pearl fishing genetic and neurological muscle disorders in Kuwait, in Marine Heritage Committee during the period 15th - 22nd areas and was documented by UNESCO in 2009. addition to the discovery of three new genes. August, with the participation of pearl diving ships which Al-Fahad said that all previous trips were made in such He explained, before the Director-General of WHO, was given as a gift from the late Amir Sheikh Jaber Al- a way to focus and achieve the national goals and this Margaret Chan, that Bastaki’s choices were not only limit- Ahmad. year’s trip shall be a special one with the participation of a ed to that achievement, but her cooperation with genet- Al-Fahad expressed honour to the club and apprecia- number of young divers, especially that heritage commit- ic research centers in the US and Europe has a major role tion for the kindness and care of His Highness the Amir. tee has started its preparations early through a training in the development of these programs in Kuwait.—KUNA Pointing that this sponsor is an honor to the club and its camp to qualify them for this trip. divers and the pearl diving trip has become an attraction which represent the national activities in reviving marine heritage at the local and GCC level. June 6 official day off This event was given special care from His Highness the Late Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad and now being cared by His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad in addition to the KUWAIT: The Civil services Commission (CSC) recently issued a directive pertaining considering Thursday, June 6 special care given by Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- a day off in various governmental establishments and Ahmad to emphasize the importance of reviving this her- organizations on the occasion of celebrating the Isra’ and itage in addition that it concentrates on the fore fathers in Me’raj anniversary. Kuwaiti diplomatic mission in Cairo honors students

CAIRO: Under the auspices of Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Dr Nayef Al- Hajraf and Kuwaiti Ambassador to Cairo Rashid Al-Hamad, Kuwait’s Cultural office held here a celebra- tion to honor outstanding Kuwaiti students and graduates. Ambassador Al-Hamad, Kuwait Ministry of Higher Education’s Undersecretary Rashed Al- Nuwaihed, and Cultural Attache at the Kuwaiti Embassy in Cairo Dr Fareeh Al-Enizi attended the event. In their statements to KUNA on the sideline of the event, each offi- cial expressed joy towards the accomplishments of the Kuwaiti students, wishing them well in their future endeavors. The officials also lauded rela- tions between Egypt and Kuwait specifically within the educational domain. There are around 12,000 Kuwaiti students pursuing educa- A group photo of outstanding Kuwaiti students and graduates of Egyptian Universities tion in Egypt on all levels. — KUNA honored at Kuwaitís cultural office in Cairo. —KUNA LOCAL SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 Separating citizens, expats clinic timing Organization or discrimination! KUWAIT: The health minister’s decision to limit providing morning Citizen Mariam, said that the experiment would succeed in reducing medical services to citizens only at various outpatients clinics and allo- crowds by half on both shifts. She also believed that afternoon clinics cating the evening period for expats starting June 1, has had its impact were best for expatriates because they all have to go to work in the on the public opinion as people were divided between supporters and morning. “As for us citizens, and even though we have morning jobs, objectors. Commenting on the decision, the manager of Kuwait Society but we can take leaves to go to hospitals and rest in the afternoon”, she for Human Rights, lawyer, Mohammed Al-Humaidi told the BBC that it said. was against all human rights, the Kuwaiti constitution and the entire Bo Nasser described the decision as a ‘right one’ and hoped it could international anti discrimination treaties. be extended to include all public hospitals in Kuwait. “It will help organ- Some people condemned the decision noting that it was a clear ize things until special hospitals were built for various manifestation of discrimination between citizens and expatriates. communities...... the afternoon period used to be allocated for citizens in On the other hand, others believed it would be a step forward the past...... nothing is changed except the timing”, he underlined. towards improving the health services provided in public hospitals On the other hand, citizen Musaed Al-Thafeiri condemned the deci- Coast guards through reducing pressure on medical and technical staffs which had sion noting that it would be a clear embodiment of racial discrimination. been undergoing due to overcrowding, especially at Jahra Hospital. “People are all equal before Allah....the decision will serve neither citi- Some citizens argued that the best solution would be by building zens nor expatriates”, he stressed urging MOH officials to remember rescue four at sea another hospital in Jahra or by imposing health insurance on citizens, as that diseases cannot tell the deference between citizens and expatriates. By Hanan Al-Saadoun well. Interviewing some patients at the Jahra Hospital, Fahad Al-Muttairi More moderately, and though he applauds the decision, citizen said that the separation would help reduce waiting times before Faisal Ibrahim stressed that need to exempt human and urgent cases KUWAIT: Coast guards patrols at the Northern Area and patients could be seen by doctors or undergo certain tests or even oper- from the timing separation. Conservatively speaking, expatriate Sayyed based on a report from one citizen that he saw a boat carrying ations. “However, this solution is only temporary. What we really need is Rezq stressed that he was for providing good health care regardless of four persons was sinking at Khor Al-Sabiya Area. Coast guards to build an alternative hospital in Jahra or impose health insurance on the timing or nationality. patrol immediately proceeded to the site and rescued the four citizens”, he stressed. However, expatriate Shah Islam was more decisive and stressed that persons from the sea and gave them necessary first aid and Um Abdullah, a citizen, hailed the decision noting that it would help the decision has to be reconsidered. “We all live in the same place. took them to Al-Sabiya coast guards center. The coast guards organize work in the hospital and that she was sure doctors would do Categorizing patients is forbidden in any religion..We all work in and called upon all those who go into the sea to abide by safety their best on both shifts. “I’m sure Jahra hospital management will pro- serve Kuwait, we spend our lives here....is this what we get for it? This regulations for their own safety. vide the best services around the clock”, she said. discrimination is Haram?”, he cried out. LOCAL SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

Zain offers 50% on SMS& 20% on International calls to Jordan

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecom- International calls to Jordan as they cel- the embassy and Jordan expatriates’ Zain added that the offer is extend- munications company in Kuwait, has ebrate the National Day today. residing in Kuwait. The company ed to all SMS & International calls sent announced that it will offer a 50% per- Zain, expressed its congratulations stressed that Zain is a global company to Jordan only today, 25th of May for cent discount on all SMS messages to on this occasion to the people of which is always keen to participate in both post-paid and pre-paid cus- Jordan and 20% discount on Jordan, represented in its leadership, the celebrations of nations. tomers. Criminal court Women held for ATMs, acquits citizen jewellery thefts KUWAIT: The criminal court recently acquitted a citizen and sentenced another to four years Man assaults woman in her apartment with labor, a KD 1,000 By Hanan Al-Saadoun needs products. They confessed to their ment and broke the toilet door and fine and withdrawing his thefts at different places. They were began beating her with a piece of wood driver’s license for a year. KUWAIT: Security sources revealed that handed over to concerned authorities and fled the scene. Police have taken Case details show that by accident four Kuwaiti women wanted along with the other two women to the man details in order to call him and a police patrol had for more than 14 theft cases were arrest- complete the investigations. listen to his side of the story. stopped the second sus- ed. pect’s vehicle and found Sources said that a Kuwaiti woman Wife beats husband Maid steals KD 220 him driving while drunk. reported to Riqqa police that her ATM KUWAIT: Security sources revealed A Kuwaiti man reported to the police On searching him, police card was stolen and KD 300 has disap- that a Kuwaiti man reported to Al-Zahra against his Ethiopian maid and accused peared from her account. After the case police station against his wife, who is a her of stealing. He told Abdullah Al- officers found some Mohammed Kamal hashish. On asking for the was filed another report was received Kuwaiti teacher in one of the govern- Salem police station that he discovered ID of the first suspect (who was sitting in the passenger’s from a shop in a commercial complex at ment schools. He claimed that he was the disappearance of KD 220 and at the seat), he refused showing any and resisted arrest till he Al-Eqaila area stating that the two beaten by her. A case was registered same time, the maid disappeared. Police was tied up and searched to find some Tramadol pills on women who stole the bank card were in and police asked his wife to report to have taken details of the maid in order him. his shop. Riqqa head police station the police station to hear her side of the to circulate her name and prevent her On his part, the first defendant’s attorney, Colonel Hmoud Misbah Al-Azemi and story. departure. Mohammed Kamal refuted the accusations and ques- other officers proceeded to the shop at tioned all evidence that mainly relied on witness’s tes- the instruction of the area commander Man assaults woman Fire department visit injured fireman timony, which eventually led to the aforementioned Colonel Ali Mohammad Al-Mirri. A Kuwaiti woman aged 23 year General Director of Fire Department As soon they arrived at the shop the reported to Abu Halifa police station along with his Deputy Brig Khalid Al- verdict. thieves ran away to the parking lot and against a Kuwaiti man who assaulted Mikrad paid a visit to Al-Adan hospital to threw some bags on the ground. The her. She told police that she lives with inquire on Sergeant Khalid Hajaj Al- officers chased them and were arrested her sister in an apartment in Abu Halifa Dawsary who was injured while on duty Traffic dept ready to and taken to police station. The police and that she was having relations with at Shuaiba Industrial Center. Al-Ansari searched their bags and recovered jew- the man who is 30 year old. He called said that the efforts of my colleague check cars on roads ellery and women accessories of high her and asked her out, but she refused, from the fire department are always value and some medicine and special which made him break into the apart- appreciated. KUWAIT: Assistant Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs Lt General Abdulfattah Al-Ali announced about forming sev- en technical committees to check cars on the roads. The sources added that Al-Ali ordered all committees’ members to be professional and to withdraw and confis- cate invalid vehicles even if they were of recent models. “This measure will help ease traffic flows along various streets as bad vehicle condition is behind much of the delay on the roads”, stressed the sources urging all vehi- cles owners to take very good care of their vehicles’ condi- tions including the paint. Al-Ali warned citizens and expats not to drive vehicles without getting official driving licenses issued by traffic department. Pointing that the campaigns carried lately resulted in the arrest of a large number of people who UNITED NATIONS: Suad Al-Otaibi spouse of Kuwaiti ambassador to UN at Kuwait Heritage Expo 1. — KUNA were caught driving without licenses. 17 under-age were sent to traffic court including a policeman for driving with- out license. Kuwait heritage portrayed in NY In the meantime, Lt. General Abdulfattah Al-Ali released UNITED NATIONS: The spouse of the top Kuwaiti diplomat here a surgeon doctor after has was detained for 24 hours in joined hands with other eminent Kuwaiti women in holding “the traffic detention room. Security source revealed that a Kuwaiti soire” late on Thursday, promoting the national culture Oil minister check point during the campaigns held on the different and heritage. roads arrested an Egyptian doctor for driving without Mrs Suad Al-Otaibi, wife of the Kuwaiti Permanent Delegate faces grilling license, Al-Ali was informed about that and ordered to at the UN, Ambassador Mansour Ayyad Al-Otaibi, organized the KUWAIT: The Cabinet postponed a meeting that was sched- detain him for 24 hours. Thereafter he was called to the night-time gathering at headquarters of the Kuwaiti diplomatic uled Thursday till sometime next week to discuss the govern- Assistant Undersecretary office and when asked for rea- mission, drawing a large number of dignitaries and prominent ment’s final decision about the two grilling motions filed on sons to drive without license. He replied that work condi- guests, including spouses of ambassadors of brotherly and the coming parliamentary session’s agenda. tions has prevented him from having the license, after friendly nations as well as the wife of the UN Secretary General. In this regard, a parliamentary source said that the govern- checking the doctor’s papers and found that he had a valid The activity that coincided with the 50th anniversary of ment intends to face the grilling motion filed against the oil driving license from his country and that he was qualified Kuwait’s joining of the UN, included a documentary about histo- minister, Hani Hussein and to demand referring another filed against the interior minister to either the legislative or consti- to get a Kuwaiti driving license. After reviewing all neces- ry of Kuwait, its achievements in various sectors, role of the Kuwaiti woman in development of Kuwait, in addition to photo- tutional parliamentary committees. sary documents Al-Ali signed the necessary papers for the graphs showing tourist landmarks in the Gulf country. Meanwhile, MP, Adel Al-Kharafi said that the Independent doctor which allowed him to get a Kuwaiti driving license. Kuwaiti costume designer Muntaha Al-Ajeel displayed old Bloc would support MP, Nasser Al-Marri in his grilling motion Further, the sources justified Al-Ali’s decision to condi- and modern Kuwaiti costumes and dresses and Nora Al-Ajmi against the oil minister concerning the Dow issue. tion a minimum wage of KD 400 for those applying for dri- contributed with photos of the national costumes. At a corner, a He added that the bloc had held a meeting during which ver’s licenses by those applicants’ need to be capable to tent was pitched with displayed items symbolizing the Kuwaiti’s Al-Marri briefed the members on the documents he had to purchase good or modern vehicles. — Al Qabas old life-style. — KUNA back up his motion. — Al Qabas LOCAL SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

Policeman gets death State of Kuwait Prize for 2013 for killing colleague awarded to Chinese laureate GENEVA: The 2013’s State of Kuwait Prize for Chairman of the Executive Board. Other Panel Immigration detective arrested Research in Health Promotion was awarded to Dr members present were Dr Saleh Ali Al-Marri mem- Guiqi Wang, from China, for his work on early ber of the Executive Board for Qatar, and Haider KUWAIT: detection of oesophagel cancer. The State of Abulhasan, representing the Founder of the Prize. The criminal court recently sen- getting out of the pantry room after finish- Kuwait Health Promotion Foundation is a founda- The Panel members studied the curricula vitae and tenced a police officer to death for shoot- ing his diner. The shooter then escaped till tion established within the framework of the World the background of the five candidates, together ing a police man working with him at he was arrested later on. Moreover, upon Health Organization (WHO). Its purpose is to award with the Administrator’s technical comments on the Qadisiya police station last September, said the First Deputy PM and Interior Minister, a prize (the State of Kuwait Prize for Research in candidatures. Bearing in mind the Statutes and security sources. Sheikh Ahmed Al-Humoud, the victim was Health Promotion) to a person or persons, an insti- guidelines governing the award of the Prize, the The sources added that the officer was considered a martyr who fell in the line of tution or institutions or a non-governmental Panel unanimously decided to propose to the accused of premeditated murder as he had duty. organization or organizations, that have made an Executive Board that the State of Kuwait Prize for prepared his gun and shot the victim to the Meanwhile, an immigration detectives outstanding contribution to research in health pro- Research in Health Promotion for 2013 be awarded head, which means he shot to kill. arrested a Kuwaiti man who told Asians motion. to Dr Guiqi Wang (China). On his part, the victim’s family lawyer that he works in immigration detectives Following the announcement of Wang’s win- Dr Wang is being honoured for his significant stressed that he had taken the case volun- and can release those detained for depor- ning the prize, Kuwaiti Health Minister Dr contribution to early detection and treatment of tarily and free of charge because the tation in exchange of financial payment. Mohammad Al-Haifi told KUNA, yesterday, that the oesophageal cancer, one of the most common deceased had a lot of patriotic attitudes. He Security sources said that director of prize reflects the gulf country’s keenness on encour- forms of cancer in China, particularly in high-risk also stressed that the killer was, unlike what immigrations detective Brig. Ghazi Al-Mai aging all kinds of scientific and health research and rural areas. Dr Wang and his colleagues have pro- his lawyers claimed, completely sane. received information about this man and initiatives. It also projects the Kuwaiti leadership vided training courses for local and voluntary health On the other hand, the defendant’s that an Asian expat reported to police that a commitment to support efforts that lead to fighting professionals. At least 2100 health professionals lawyer demanded acquitting his client on person offered him to release his relative and preventing chronic communicable diseases. On from 28 provinces have been trained in endoscopy, grounds that his mental powers were dis- who is detained for deportation in his part, the Chinese laureate expressed, through a pathology, epidemiology, and treatment for early turbed when he shot the victim. exchange of KD 150. The Asian who is Sri statement to KUNA, his appreciation to Kuwait and oesophageal cancer. WHO for granting him this outstanding reward. He This increased screening capacity has optimized Notably, the murder took place when Lankan was told to go ahead and give the also pledged to donate prize money to the sick and the primary health care system for cancer preven- the shooter returned to the police station man the money. As they met at one cafÈ at underprivileged people. The prize’s academic tion and control in rural areas, including for the dis- after the victim, upon the station comman- Abu Hlaifa, he was caught red handed and worth will be given to cancer researchers in China advantaged population. Dr Wang recommends an der’s orders, filed a ‘desertion’ note against was having the numbered notes. During to motivate them for finding new mean of diagno- integrated strategy to cover cancer control and him for not showing up to work. investigations he told police that he made sis and treatment of this chronic disease. chronic disease screening, and the involvement of Eyewitnesses said that the officer found the use of the situation and offered his services The State of Kuwait Health Promotion communities in planning, management, and evalu- victim having dinner with a colleague and to expats. Adding after he receives the Foundation Selection Panel met on January 23, ation of health promotion in the control of chronic that he went to the weapons room, picked money he disappears the moves between 2013. It was chaired by Dr Joy St John (Barbados), disease. —KUNA up a gun and shot the victim just as he was cafes to look for new victims. — Al-Watan LOCAL SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 GCC faces threats, makes great accomplishments

KUWAIT: Thirty-two years ago, leaders of the regional countries ty to withstand challenges and determine a single destiny. Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, on August 2, held a summit conference in Abu Dhabi, the UAE, where they Credit for establishment of the GCC, particularly, goes to the 1990, the GCC condemned the offensive in strong terms and approved constituent law of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). late Amir of Kuwait, HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, and the demanded the occupiers withdraw from Kuwait immediately and On that day, May 25, 1981, birth of the GCC was officially pro- late UAE President, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nuhayyan. without conditions. claimed, an event that coincided with overshadowing regional Preparatory meetings were held ahead of the summit that Moreover, the GCC states put all their resources at Kuwait’s crises and problems, namely a war between Iran and Iraq. The grouped top leaders of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, disposal, in defense of legitimacy of its leadership at various lev- eventful declaration meant that these six countries joined hands Qatar and Oman. The bloc proved effective in fending off external els. Moreover, they hosted Kuwaitis who sought safe haven and to set up a bloc to pool their resources and strengthen their abili- challenges and aggression. Only hours after forces of the ousted took part in military operations that evicted the occupiers in 1991. On August 3, 1990, GCC foreign ministers held an emergency meeting in Cairo, calling for an urgent meeting of the Arab League on the 10th of the same month to discuss the Iraqi National Guard holds religious lecture aggression. On December 22, 1990, the 11th session of the GCC was held in Doha, Qatar, where the member states re-affirmed their firm support for Kuwait in its quest to reclaim sovereignty. At the diplomatic level, the GCC defended the Kuwaiti cause at international quarters, namely the Security Council of the United Nations. Due to the GCC efforts, the UNSC issued Resolution 660, stipulating immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the occu- pation forces and Resolution 678 that affirmed usage of all means to restore peace and security to the Gulf region. Observers acquainted with march of the GCC noted that the member states made large steps on the path for integration, par- ticularly at the economic level. Banks were allowed to open branches in the GCC countries to facilitate inter-Gulf trade, pro- ceeds of which grew from USD 32 billion to USD 100 billion between 2005 and 2012. In 2011, the GCC posted USD 1.2 billion in commercial income, KUWAIT: Public Relations Dept at National Guard organized a religious lecture about prayers for its members in ranking fifth after China, the US, Germany and Japan. The GCC order to improve the spiritual side for them. The lecture was given by preacher Ahmad Thaiq Dghaiman who talked Custom Treaty, that came into effect on January 1, 2003, was a about importance of prayers and its spiritual effects in individual life. He supported his argument with a number of qualitative leap in the right direction, for it contributed to free verses from Holy Quran and Sunna. Thereafter door was open to queries and questions from audience about a num- flow of commodities among the council member countries. ber of things that concerns them. Custom fees were unified, at five percent for imported goods from outside the GCC, and transit was cancelled among the GCC member states. In 2007, GCC leaders adopted establishment of the common Gulf market that secured free movement of labor and capitals among the countries. GCC citizens were also granted economic and business privileges in each of the member states. The former GCC secretary general, Abdul-Rahman Al-Attiah, affirmed that the bloc was formed genuinely to furnish GCC citi- zens with equal and identical treatment in all the GCC states. In 2000, the top leaders affirmed a plan to issue the single GCC currency. In their 30th summit, held in Kuwait in 2009, they inau- gurated the joint power grid. During the same meeting, they approved completion of the GCC railway network. One of the most tangible and major steps for sake of unifica- tion was allowing the GCC citizens to cross borders of any mem- ber state without passport. Turning to the regional level, the GCC acted as a bloc in the face of Iran’s occupation of the three UAE islands, Greater and Lesser Tonbs and Abu Moussa, affirming Abu Dhabi’s sovereignty on these islands. Moreover, the GCC has urged Iran to respect international charters, abstain from meddling in internal affairs of the countries of the region, seek to resolve problems with peaceful means, abstain from using force, cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency on the nuclear issues and for proliferation of deadly arms in the Middle East. Also in this regard, the council urged Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities. In 2011, when the Kingdom of Bahrain witnessed a major crisis that threatened its security and stability, the GCC affirmed its role and keenness on maintaining security and sovereignty of the council member countries and foiling any conspiracy intended to sow seeds of discords among natives and countries of the GCC. Regarding the Palestinian question, the GCC has maintained support for establishing just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East on basis of full Israeli pullout from occupied Arab ter- ritories to the June 4, 1967, border line. As to Yemen, the GCC had taken a major initiative to resolve the internal crisis and cooperate with the international communi- ty to secure aid to stricken natives of the Gulf country. The GCC maintained the principle of maintaining sovereignty and territorial sanctity of Iraq and backed conciliation efforts to resolve differences among the Iraqis. On Syria, the bloc called on the international community to take firm and decisive action to realize aspirations of the natives. Furthermore, the council has been following up on developments and issues in other Arab countries, namely Sudan and Somalia. — KUNA SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 Syria opposition seeks Taleban attack UN Massive quake felt in to unify as talks loom 9 compound in Kabul 12 Moscow, no casualties 11

STOCKHOLM: Firemen extinguish a blaze at a nursery school in the Stockholm suburb of Kista after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm, Sweden for a fourth consecutive night yesterday. — AFP Kerry: Hard choices for Palestine, Israel Iran slammed for barring election candidates

TEL AVIV: US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israeli and ment building in the Palestinian territories, one of the principal Palestinian leaders yesterday to take “hard decisions” to revive the issues over which the 2010 talks stalled. “The US position on settle- Middle East peace process, which has stalled for almost three years. ments is clear and has not changed... we believe they should stop,” Kerry has been pressing Israel and the Palestinians to resume direct he said. “Some things are beyond control... but certainly the peace talks that broke down in September 2010, notably over the (Israeli) government has the ability to make a difference here in issue of Jewish settlement building. the next months. It is my hope that they will.” “We’re getting toward a time now when hard decisions need to Israel has come under mounting international criticism for be made,” he told a news conference in Tel Aviv at the end of his ramping up construction in the settlements. Settlements in the fourth visit to the region since he took office in February. He said West Bank, including annexed Arab east Jerusalem, are illegal there was “one way” to make peace a reality, “and that is through under international law. Palestinians demand a freeze on settle- direct negotiations. “Ultimately it is the Israeli and Palestinian people ment construction before they will return to the negotiating table. who both decide the outcome... and who will get the greatest bene- But Kerry stressed the priority was for talks “without precondi- fits” from a resumption of talks, he said. tions.” Meeting Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Ramallah in the Kerry slammed Iran yesterday for its barring of would-be candi- West Bank and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in dates for a presidential election next month. “I cannot think of any- Jerusalem on Thursday, Kerry admitted there was skepticism and one in the world... who would not be amazed by a process in cynicism about his bid to broker new talks. “I know this region well which an unelected Guardian Council, which is unaccountable to enough to know there is skepticism, in some quarters there is cyni- John Kerry the Iranian people, has disqualified... hundreds of potential candi- cism, and there are reasons for it. There have been bitter years of dis- frustration that there has been little sign of a shift in the long-held dates according to vague criteria,” he said at a news conference in appointment,” he said. positions of the two sides. Complicating efforts is the new Israeli Tel Aviv. “The council narrowed a list of almost 700 candidates But he insisted: “It is our hope that by being methodical, careful, government, which has moved more towards the right and down to... officials of their choice, based solely on who represents patient, but detailed and tenacious, that we can lay on a path ahead includes some ministers who oppose a two-state solution. Kerry the regime’s interests, rather than who might represent some dif- that can conceivably surprise people and certainly exhaust the pos- also warned on Friday that there was a time limit on the possibility ferent point of view among the Iranian people,” Kerry said. “The sibilities for peace.” And in a powerful message to Palestinians, who of peace, after Thursday comments from British Foreign Secretary lack of transparency makes it highly unlikely that that slate of can- are used to just seeing American motorcades sweep by into Abbas’s William Hague also on a visit to the region-that the prospects of a didates is either going to represent the broad will of the Iranian high-walled headquarters compound, Kerry went for a stroll along a two-state solution “cannot be kept alive forever.” “It is clear that in people or represent a change,” the top US diplomat added. Kerry Ramallah street. the long run the status quo is not sustainable,” Kerry said. The sec- spoke at the end of a visit to meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Despite public pronouncements of support, there is growing retary of state also touched on the sensitive issue of Jewish settle- Jerusalem and Ramallah respectively. — Agencies International SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 Iran denies its forces fighting for Assad US imposes further sanctions on Tehran

DUBAI: Iran denied yesterday it had forces in Syria supporting President Bashar Al-Assad’s army, one day after foreign backers of his rebel foes demanded Tehran withdraw its fight- ers from Syrian territory. “The true TUNIS: The 5 Fishes, a 32-meter yacht that belonged to enemies of Syria make up these accu- Belhassen Trabelsi, the brother-in-law of former sations to provoke the people of this Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, is anchored country,” Foreign Ministry spokesman in Goulette harbor, outside Tunis, yesterday. The boat Abbas Araqchi said, quoted by Iranian was shown to media after being returned to Tunisia by state television. the government of Spain, where it was seized in At a meeting in Jordan on February. It is valued at $5 million. —AP Thursday, the Friends of Syria group- ing of Western and Arab governments called for the immediate withdrawal from Syria of Iranian fighters and US, Turkey, Qatar Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas. They were reported to be fighting along- seek UN rights side the Syrian army and militias loyal to Assad in the town of Qusair, near debate on Syria the Lebanese border. “In response to a question about GENEVA: The United States, Turkey and Qatar called accusations that Iranian and yesterday for an urgent debate on Syria at the UN’s Hezbollah forces were present in top human rights body next week, citing the escalat- TEHRAN: Iranian presidential candidate and lead nuclear negotiator Saeed Syria, Abbas Araqchi said Iranian Jalili waves to supporters during a campaign rally in Tehran yesterday. —AFP ing conflict and the regime’s assault on the central forces have never been and are not town of Qusayr. “We ... request the Human Rights present in Syria,” the state television curbs against 20 individuals and enti- sile program in defiance of multiple Council to hold an urgent debate on the deteriorating report said. Iran, a Shiite Muslim ties for their involvement in Iran’s UN Security Council Resolutions, the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic, nation, is Assad’s closest ally and has nuclear activities. The US Department US will target and disrupt those and the recent killings in Al Qusayr,” the ambassadors provided money, weapons, intelli- of the Treasury said in a statement, involved in Iran’s illicit activities.” “We of the three countries wrote in their request to council gence and training for his forces released late on Thursday, “that it is will continue to work with our interna- president Remigiusz Henczel. against a mainly Sunni Muslim upris- taking action today against 20 individ- tional partners to intensify this pres- The UN human rights council is due to open its ing in which more than 80,000 people uals and entities for their involvement sure and tighten sanctions on Iran’s next three-week session on Monday, and the three have been killed in two years. in Iran’s nuclear and missile prolifera- energy sector as it provides much countries called for the urgent debate to be held dur- Russia and the United States are tion networks and Iran’s continued needed financial support for the ing the first week, lamenting “the escalating grave trying to arrange an international attempts to circumvent sanctions.” Iranian regime’s proliferation activity,” human rights violations” in Syria. Council spokesman peace conference to end the war. It added that “these networks are he remarked. Rolando Gomez told AFP that president Henczel and Moscow has said Iran should attend responsible for moving supplies and According to the Treasury, 14 of other administrators would now examine a possible but Western reservations about a role providing essential services to Iran’s the entities and individuals being des- date for the debate, adding that Tuesday or for Tehran already threaten to derail clandestine nuclear and weapons pro- ignated today are part of Iran’s inter- Wednesday looked likely. the conference. Iran has called for grams.” “These actions are designed national procurement and prolifera- This would not be the first time the UN’s top rights elections and reforms in Syria but to increase pressure on the Iranian tion operations. Today’s designations body meets to discuss the spiralling violence in Syria. does not accept Assad’s removal, say- regime by tightening sanctions include companies supporting IRGC The council has previously held one urgent debate on ing a solution to the crisis cannot be against Iran’s energy sector and attempts to clandestinely ship illicit Syria and four special sessions outside its usual four imposed from outside. Tehran has exposing key proliferation related net- cargo around the world, including to annual meetings and is already set to hear during the also accused Western and Arab works that span the globe from Syria. They also target the Deputy coming session a report from UN investigators into nations of arming opposition groups. Europe to Asia,” it stressed. Defense Minister and Dean of Malek the human rights situation in the war-torn country. Analysts say that losing its Syrian In this regard, Treasury Under Ashtar University, who is responsible That report will be presented on June 3. The ally would weaken Iran’s ability to Secretary for Terrorism and Financial for significant contributions to Iran’s request for an urgent debate on the situation in Syria threaten its foe Israel through Intelligence David Cohen affirmed in a missile program, as well as companies comes after the Friends of Syria group of governments Hezbollah. statement “as long as Iran continues and individuals supporting Iran’s that back the rebels met in Amman this week as part The United States has imposed to pursue a nuclear and ballistic mis- nuclear program. — Agencies of the diplomatic efforts to convene a peace confer- ence in Geneva next month. — AFP Three Qaeda men, two soldiers dead in Yemen SANAA: A security official says Al-Qaeda gunmen industry sources said. “Subversive elements” in Serwah in attacked a military position in a southern province, central Maarib province had blown up the pipeline, touching off fighting that left three militants and two sol- which leads to the Red Sea, at dawn yesterday, the diers dead. The official said the Friday attack in the Defense Ministry said in a statement. mountainous Al-Thalib region in the militant stronghold The Arabian Peninsula state, which relies on crude of Al-Bayda province was repulsed, and nearby army exports to replenish its reserves and finance up to 70 positions responded with heavy artillery shelling. The percent of budget spending, has suffered frequent official, speaking on condition of anonymity according to bombings of its main oil pipeline since an uprising broke regulations, said the attack was part of an al-Qaida bid to out in 2011. take positions near Radda, the province capital, which Sabotage of oil pipelines and transmission towers in the militants briefly occupied last year but were driven Maarib had increased dramatically in recent days, the out by government forces. ministry said. The pipeline had been pumping around Al-Qaeda overran much of the south in 2011, taking 125,000 barrels per day (bpd), an industry source told advantage of the turmoil caused by a popular uprising. Reuters. Yemen’s stability is a priority for the United The army supported by US military experts pushed them States and its Gulf Arab allies because of its strategic CAIRO: Egyptian Salafists demonstrate in front of the back, but clashes continue. position next to oil exporter Saudi Arabia and shipping Tunisian Embassy in Cairo against the Tunisian govern- Attackers blew up Yemen’s main oil export pipeline lanes, and because is home to one of Al-Qaeda’s most ment clamp down on the islamist group Ansar Al- yesterday, halting the flow of crude, the government and active wings. — Reuters Sharia yesterday. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 Syria opposition seeks to unify as talks loom Russia says regime agrees to talks

ISTANBUL: Syria’s fractious opposition scrambled to agree a new leadership yesterday in a bid to present a coherent front at peace talks which the United States and Russia are convening to seek an end to more than two years of civil BEIRUT: Lebanese President Michel Sleiman delivering a war. A major assault by President Bashar statement during a tour at the Defense ministry in Yarze, Al-Assad’s forces on a rebel held town east of Beirut, yesterday. Sleiman cautioned Shiite Muslim over the past week is shaping into a piv- group Hezbollah over its militants’ intervention on the otal battle. It has drawn in fighters from side of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in the conflict in neigh- Assad’s Lebanese allies Hezbollah, justi- boring Syria. — AFP fying worry that a war that has killed 80,000 people would cross borders at Lebanon president the heart of the Middle East. Washington and Moscow have been cautions Hezbollah compelled to revive diplomacy by developments in recent months, which over Syria role include new reports of atrocities, accu- QUSAIR: An image grab taken from a video uploaded on Youtube yesterday sations chemical weapons were used shows smoke billowing from buildings in the city of Qusayr, in Syria’s central BEIRUT: Lebanese President Michel Sleiman cautioned Shiite and the rise of Al-Qaeda-linked fighters Homs province, following an alleged missile strike by Hezbollah. — AFP Muslim group Hezbollah yesterday over its militants’ interven- among rebels. tion on the side of the regime in the conflict in neighboring has to show a minimum of will that it is tration of its backers, the coalition has US Secretary of State John Kerry and ready to stop the bloodshed,” said struggled to agree on a leader since the Syria. “The resistance is more noble and more important than Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov anything, and should not get bogged down in the sands of Haitham Al-Maleh, an elder statesman of resignation in March of respected cleric will meet privately in Paris on Monday to the coalition. Moaz Alkhatib, who had floated two ini- dissension, whether in Syria or Lebanon,” he said in a state- discuss their efforts to bring Syria’s war- ment, referring to Hezbollah’s traditional focus on fighting There was more heavy fighting yes- tiatives for Assad to leave power peace- ring parties together, US and Russian terday in Qusair, a town controlling fully. Alkhatib’s latest proposal - a 16- Israel. officials said. Russia said the Syrian gov- “The resistance has fought and liberated (Israeli-occupied access to the coast which Assad’s forces point plan which foresees Assad hand- ernment had agreed in principle to southern Lebanon) because it acts for a national cause and and Hezbollah allies have tried to take in ing power to his deputy or prime minis- attend the planned peace conference, not a confessional one,” Sleiman added. The statement came a battle that could prove an important ter then going abroad with 500 mem- which could take part in Geneva in the as the militant group battled Syrian rebel fighters in the cen- test of Assad’s ability to withstand the bers of his entourage - won little sup- tral town of Qusayr near the border, where Syrian troops coming weeks, and had “expressed revolt. Assad wants to secure the coastal port in Istanbul, highlighting the obsta- launched an assault tomorrow. readiness” to find a political solution. region which is the homeland of his cles to wider negotiations. The fighting has left dozens of Hezbollah fighters dead, Under intense international pressure Alawite minority sect, an offshoot of “He has the right to submit papers to according the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and to resolve internal divisions so it can Shiite Islam. He is backed by Shiite Iran the meeting like any other member but sources close to the group. Lebanon is officially neutral in the play a meaningful role in the talks, and Hezbollah against mainly Sunni his paper is heading directly to the dust- conflict, but the fighting has exacerbated tensions among its Syria’s Western-backed opposition rebels supported by Saudi Arabia and bin of history. It is a repeat of his previ- myriad of religious and ethnic communities. National Coalition met in Istanbul to Qatar. The Syrian Observatory for ous initiative which went nowhere,” a Hezbollah and its allies have backed the regime of elect new leaders and broaden its mem- Human Rights, a pro-opposition senior coalition official said. Washington President Bashar Al-Assad in its efforts to crush the uprising bership. Senior opposition figures said London-based monitoring group, said threatened on Wednesday to increase that began in March 2011. But Lebanon’s opposition parties the coalition was likely to attend the Syrian army and Hezbollah forces at support for the rebels if Assad refused to Qusair were trying to cut off rebels in largely support the Sunni-led rebellion against the Syrian conference, but doubted it would pro- discuss a political end to the violence, a the nearby village of Hamidiya. State regime. Hezbollah has acknowledged that its fighters are duce any immediate deal for Assad to sentiment echoed yesterday by British media said the army had destroyed “ter- inside Syria, and several Lebanese Sunni clerics have urged leave power - their central demand. Foreign Secretary William Hague, who rorist dens” in Hamidiya and also killed members of their community to join the conflict on the side of “We are faced with a situation where has been pressing the European Union eight “terrorists” in another village, the rebels. everyone thinks there will be a marriage to amend a weapons embargo to allow Daba, close to Qusair. Much to the frus- Sleiman, elected in 2008, is seen as a neutral figure who when the bride is refusing. The regime arming the rebels. — Reuters sides with neither camp. His comments yesterday were his first on Hezbollah’s role in Syria. They come on the eve of Liberation Day, which marks the Israeli army’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000 after 22 years of occupation. Peace efforts leave Syrian Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is expected to deliver an anniversary speech yesterday. refugees in Jordan cold The Shiite group’s intervention in the conflict has drawn international criticism, particularly from the United States, ZAATARI CAMP: International efforts to organize a Syria journalists ask about the possibility of a conference to dis- which blacklists Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. On peace conference are at fever pitch, but in Jordan’s Zaatari cuss a political solution to the conflict which has left more Tuesday, President Barack Obama called Sleiman to discuss camp, Syrian refugees are more concerned with the misery than 94,000 dead since March 2011. “Why another confer- Hezbollah’s intervention. —AFP of their daily lives than diplomatic manoeuvring. “To be hon- ence? To agree deals that ignore the blood that is shed by est, we’re fed up with these conferences, there have been the children? We have no hope for anything,” says Adel, a many... without results. We want a radical solution,” said former car dealer who lost everything when he left Daraa. Saleh, a former laborer from Syria’s southern Daraa province. For the last year he has tried to earn money by manning a The efforts by Washington and Moscow to organize a miserable kiosk in the camp, selling coffee, tamarind juice peace conference next month mean little to the 120,000 res- and soft drinks to his fellow refugees. “They’re holding this idents of the dusty camp, where daytime temperatures hov- conference because they’ve reached the point where nei- er around 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). “We ther side (the regime or rebels) can win,” adds Adel, who was either want to go back or to know what is going to happen detained by the regime after the uprising against President to us, we’ve been waiting for so long,” Saleh says. Zaatari is Bashar Al-Assad began. located in the middle of the desert, not far from the Syrian For most of the camp’s residents, peace remains nothing border, and residents complain of shortages of water and more than a dream, and the overriding sentiment is one of electricity and describe the food as “something even ani- abandonment by the international community. mals wouldn’t eat.” “If they had wanted to do something, they would have To collect their rations, men queue up under the blazing done it from the beginning,” says another resident, Aziz. sun in front of a distribution centre, where chickens are Mohammed, a Syrian who was living in the United Arab roasting in the open air, surrounded by clouds of flies and Emirates, says he came to Zaatari to open a shop to help his dust. The camp has become a city of sorts, with its main road countrymen. “People are in the process of building their ISTANBUL: Turkish protestors hold placards which read transformed into a marketplace, complete with makeshift lives here, they’re settling in,” he says. “Day by day, they’re “Killer Esad and his collaborators will pay the given lives” cafes, shops of all kinds and even hairdressers. Fatigue is losing hope,” he adds. “People here are waiting, but it seems and chant slogans during a demonstration held in front of written across the faces of the4 residents, particularly when that things will drag on.” —AFP the Fatih mosque in Istanbul yesterday. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

Africa backs Kenya call for Hague court to drop Kenyatta case ADDIS ABABA: African nations have backed a request by Kenya for charges of crimes against humanity by its president to be referred back to the east African coun- try, African Union documents show. President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, are both facing trial in the International Criminal Court (ICC), accused of masterminding ethnic bloodshed in post-election violence five years ago that killed more than 1,200 people. Both deny the charges. One minister, who asked to remain anonymous, told Reuters that the African Union specifically avoid- ed calling on the war crimes tribunal to drop its prose- cution, but he acknowledged that the request for a local process amounted to the same thing. The docu- ment seen by Reuters yesterday said: “(The Assembly) supports and endorses the eastern Africa region’s Part of the uranium mine of Arlit, in northern Niger. Suicide bombers in request for a referral of the ICC investigations and Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously, one inside a military prosecutions.” The proposal, drafted after foreign min- camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit. isters had debated the issue late on Thursday, now (Inset) Former Al-Qaeda chief Mokhtar Belmokhtar — AP has to be voted on by heads of state, which diplomats say is typically a rubber-stamping exercise. Kenya told the assembly that the ICC trials risked destabilizing east Africa’s biggest economy when it French troops raid Niger was undertaking reforms to avoid a repeat of the vio- lence after the election in December 2007. The African Union said that a referral of the cases to end hostage seizure would “allow for a national mechanism to investigate and prosecute the cases under a reformed judiciary ... to prevent the resumption of conflict and violence in Jihadists threaten new attacks Kenya.” —Reuters NIAMEY: French special forces and “terrorists” and three hostages had extremist had been killed in fighting local troops raided an army base yes- been killed, as well as a civilian caught with Chadian troops in northeastern terday in northern Niger, ending a in the cross-fire. Niger’s government Mali. But Belmokhtar’s group said he hostage seizure by Islamist fighters did not confirm those numbers, while had personally overseen the Niger who had staged twin suicide bomb- the French official said the toll was pre- attacks. “It was Belmokhtar himself ings that killed at least 20 people. liminary. Nigerien authorities would who supervised the operational plans,” The dawn raid came after not say how many hostages had been spokesman El-Hassen Ould Khalil was Signatories in Blood, a jihadist group taken. quoted as saying by a Mauritanian that claimed Thursday’s blasts, threat- French Defence Minister Jean-Yves news agency. The group also warned ened to continue attacking Niger until Le Drian confirmed France had taken of “further operations” in Niger and the country withdraws its forces from part in the raid. “The situation has sta- threatened France and other countries neighboring Mali, where they are part bilized as we speak, especially in involved in what it called the “Crusader of a French-led military campaign Agadez, where our special forces inter- campaign” in Mali. against Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists. vened to back the Niger forces,” he said It said the attacks were its “first A French defense ministry official on France’s BFMTV. Signatories in response” and threatened to “bring the said two “terrorists” had been killed in Blood, founded by veteran Algerian fight to the interior of his country the raid on a building at the Agadez jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, first unless (Niger President Mahamadou Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni (left) welcomes army base, where Islamist fighters had grabbed worldwide attention in Issoufou) withdraws his mercenary United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, right, holed up after the bombings and were January when it seized an Algerian gas army” from Mali. Thursday’s attacks at to the State House in Entebbe, Uganda yesterday. —AP holding a group of trainee soldiers plant in a brazen attack that left 38 the Agadez army base and a uranium hostage. hostages dead. mine majority-owned by French Ban challenges African An elected official in Agadez, the Belmokhtar had been reported nuclear group Areva killed 18 soldiers, main city in Niger’s mostly desert dead in April by Chad’s President Idriss two civilians and four attackers in all, leaders over Congo north, gave a higher toll, saying three Deby Itno, who said the one-eyed officials said. —AFP KAMPALA: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday urged African leaders to implement a peace plan that the UN hopes will stabilize eastern Congo, a region WikiLeaks releases transcript long plagued by violence and which now is back on edge. Ban told a news conference in Uganda that he expects regional leaders to try to find solutions as eastern Congo of critical US film once again descends into another phase of hostilities sparked partly by the UN’s deployment of a brigade of WASHINGTON: WikiLeaks has WikiLeaks, faces possible life impris- peacekeepers with a mandate to attack rebel groups. Ban released an annotated version of a onment in a military trial to resume said the deployment would become fully operational “in a leaked transcript of a documentary June 3. in a bid to counter a film that takes Assange, the Australian hacker matter of weeks,” although only about 100 members of a a critical look at the anti-secrecy who founded the site, has been planned brigade of 3,000 have arrived there so far. group and which opened yesterday. holed up in Ecuador’s London Along with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Ban met WikiLeaks said it had not partici- embassy for nearly a year, seeking this week with some influential leaders in East and Central pated in the making of “We Steal to avoid extradition to Sweden, Africa in hopes of keeping alive a treaty signed in February Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,” a where he is wanted for questioning by the UN and 11 African countries. That treaty, also known film by Alex Gibney that focuses on in a sexual assault case. WikiLeaks as the UN’s peace and security cooperation framework for the website’s controversial founder said late Thursday that the film These file two photos show Wikileaks Congo, has been overshadowed by renewed hostilities Julian Assange and its chief inform- “portrays Manning’s alleged acts as founder Julian Assange (left) looking on at between the Congolese army and the M23, the most ant Bradley Manning. Manning, a a failure of character rather than a the media and his supporters from the bal- prominent rebel group currently operating in eastern US Army intelligence analyst who triumph of conscience” and said cony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Congo. Peace talks under the banner of a regional bloc admitted to leaking hundreds of the film’s portrayal of his relation- and US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning being chaired by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni have hit a thousands of secret military logs ship with Assange was “grossly irre- escorted following a motions hearing in the dead end amid fears of a return to war. —AP and confidential embassy cables to sponsible.” —AFP case US vs Manning. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

Massive quake felt in Moscow, no casualties

MOSCOW: A massive undersea earthquake yesterday in lifted with no reports of casualties. The huge magnitude and ters away, the quake was felt to a magnitude of up to 5 but Russia’s Far East prompted a tsunami warning and unleashed great depth of the quake meant that its echoes were felt across there were no casualties or damage, the emergency situations tremors across Russia including in Moscow around 10,000 kilo- the Eurasian continent including in the Russian capital itself. ministry said. “Aftershocks of a magnitude of up to 2 were meters away, but caused no casualties or damage. The USGS “The whole plate-on which the continent stands-shook,” recorded in Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk and Novosibirsk regions [of estimated the quake at 8.3 magnitude and placed its epicenter Anatoly Tsygankov of the state Rosgidromet environmental Siberia] as well as several others,” the emergency situations min- in the Sea of Okhotsk off the shore of the Kamchatka Peninsula monitoring service told AFP. “And this movement of the conti- istry said. The emergencies ministry in Moscow, which is eight at a depth of more than 600 kilometers (370 miles). Russia nental plate was felt all over Russia-not just in Moscow, we time zones away from the region hit by the quake, said it had issued a tsunami warning for Sakhalin island and its region, urg- received calls from Nizhny Novgorod and other cities,” In the received reports of chandeliers swinging and water in aquari- ing residents to seek higher ground. But the warning was later nearest city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, around 350 kilome- ums shaking as a result of the quake. — AP

PARIS: French anti-gay marriage activist Virginie Tellene (cen- ter), aka Frigide Barjot, speaks to journalists at Denfert- Rochereau square in Paris yesterday two days ahead of a demonstration of the movement “La Manif Pour Tous” (Demonstration for all !), opposed to same-sex marriage. — AFP Berlusconi’s call-girl ‘lied to investigators’ ROME: The alleged call-girl at the centre of a trial against Silvio Berlusconi told a courtroom yesterday that she had previously lied to investigators about raunchy parties hosted by the billionaire tycoon. “I am sorry I talked rubbish when I spoke to prosecutors,” Karima El- Mahroug, a dancer nicknamed “Ruby the Heart Stealer”, said at a sepa- rate trial against three friends of Berlusconi’s accused of pimping for him. “The majority of the things I said were not true,” she said. The Moroccan-born 21-year-old, who is alleged to have had sex for money with the then-prime minis- ter several times in 2010 when she was 17, had said that Berlusconi and his accountant gave her 187,000 euros ($243,000) in cash. But yetserday she said she had “made up” the sum just to show off. She also went back on testimo- ny that Berlusconi had hosted strip shows for his “bodily stimulation” at his villa, saying that the girls who took part only stripped to their lingerie and there had been “no contact” with Berlusconi. Several other young women have come forward with details of Berlusconi orgies. Berlusconi is accused of having sex with an underage prostitute, El-Mahroug, Karima El-Mahroug and of abuse of office when he called up a police station in May 2010 to have El-Mahroug released from custody when she was arrested for petty theft. A verdict in that trial, which began two years ago, is expected in June. The main prosecutor at the trial, Ilda Boccassini, on Thursday received a death threat that referred to the trial and an envelope with two bullets in it. Boccassini earlier this month requested a six-year prison sentence against the 76-year-old Berlusconi, as well as a lifetime ban from politics. Also on Thursday a judge who upheld Berlusconi’s conviction for tax fraud related to his television empire said that the media magnate had continued managing the fraudulent business scheme even when he was prime minister. A verdict on Berlusconi’s final appeal in the fraud case is expected later this year. The sentence, which has been frozen pending the appeal, is a year in prison although even if definitively convicted, he may not serve time because sentencing guidelines for over-70s are very lenient in Italy. - AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

Sri Lanka monk tries to self-immolate

COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan monk set he shouted that his action was to to secure a ban on meat eating in Sri this year staged rallies and cam- himself on fire yesterday to protest the protest the slaughter of cattle.” The Lanka. An animal rights activist said paigned to boycott halal-slaughtered slaughter of cattle, in the country’s first monk was in a critical condition in a she did not condone the monk’s meat as well as other products that attempt at self-immolation by a monk, Colombo hospital, police said. The action, but she added that the carry a halal certificate. police said. The monk doused himself protest came as the country celebrated unprecedented move demonstrated The monks argue that Buddhists with a flammable liquid and set him- Wesak, the commemoration of the the anger towards the inhuman treat- should not be forced to consume food self ablaze near a temple in the central birth, enlightenment and the death of ment of animals. “Taking one’s life (for that is prepared according to Islamic town of Kandy during an important the Buddha, in the Buddhist-majority this cause) is also wrong,” said Sagarika rites, saying it demonstrates the undue Buddhist festival, police said. country which marks the occasion with Rajakarunanayake of Sathva Mithra, or influence of Muslims in Sri Lanka. More “Policemen near the temple doused two days of holidays. friends of animals, movement. “But this than 110 Tibetans have set themselves the flames and rushed the monk to Eating meat is common in Buddhist also shows that many people are frus- alight since 2009, with most dying of hospital,” police spokesman Buddhika Sri Lanka, although according to the trated over the cruelty to animals.” The their injuries, in demonstrations Siriwardena told AFP. religion killing animals is a sin. Animal protest came after thousands of against what they view as Chinese “Just before setting himself alight, rights groups have tried unsuccessfully Buddhists and their supporters earlier oppression in their homeland. — AFP Taleban attack UN compound in Kabul Two militants killed in fights

KABUL: Taleban militants launched a coordinated attack on a UN compound in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul, yesterday setting off explosions and battling the security forces. A PESHAWAR: A Pakistani police officer examines a badly plume of smoke hung over the city cen- damaged vehicle at the site of a suicide bomb attack in tre after the attack was launched, eight Peshawar yesterday. — AFP days after six Americans, soldiers and civilians, and nine Afghans were killed Three dead in northwest in a suicide car bombing in Kabul. Pakistan suicide attack The Taleban, fighting to expel Western forces and establish Islamist PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber yesterday hit a vehicle rule, claimed responsibility, saying a belonging to an Afghan Muslim scholar in northwest compound used by the US Central Pakistan, killing three people including the cleric’s guard Intelligence Agency (CIA), had been and driver, officials said. attacked. Concern is mounting about The bomber detonated his explosive jacket close to how the 352,000 members of the Hajji Hayatullah’s car as worshippers were leaving a Afghan security forces will cope with mosque following Friday prayers in the city’s congested the militants after most foreign NATO- KABUL: Afghan police aim their weapons after a suicide attack in Kabul Faqirabad neighborhood, local police chief Liaquat Ali led combat troops leave by the end of yesterday. A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital yes- said. “The bomber blasted Haji Hayatullah’s car from the next year. Kabul police chief Ayoub terday. —AP right side, killing the driver and Hayatullah’s guard,” he Salangi said four attackers had entered said adding that a third person died of his injuries in hospi- a UN compound. “Our security forces pound at the time of the attack. There bomb blast at about 4 pm (1130 GMT) tal and three others were wounded. Senior police officer have already killed two of them and were at least four large blasts and near a main intersection, said Kabul Khalid Hamdani confirmed the attack and the casualties. two are still on the second floor and exchanges of fire were going on police chief spokesman Hashmatullah “It was a suicide attack, the target seems to be fighting with Afghan security forces,” between the attackers and Afghan Stanikzai. A Taleban spokesman, Hayatullah who had not yet boarded the vehicle,” he said. Salangi said. forces, supported by Norwegian special Zabihullah Mujahid, speaking to The bomber carried about six kilograms of explosives, he There was no information about forces, at 6.20 p.m. (1350 GMT), witness Reuters by telephone, claimed respon- said adding that the vehicle was badly damaged. —AFP anyone who had been inside the com- said. The first blast was a suicide car- sibility. —Reuters Militants kill four soldiers in Kashmir

SRINAGAR: Militants killed four soldiers ture them. Three soldiers were killed in the yesterday in an ambush outside Srinagar, ambush and a soldier injured in the ensu- the main city of Kashmir, sparking a gun ing gun battle later died, a police official battle in which one rebel also died, local said. “One militant involved in the attack officials said. The soldiers were searching was also killed during the encounter. We for militants during a patrol when they are ascertaining his identity,” Abdul Gani were ambushed in the village of Hardu Mir, Kashmir’s police chief, said. Buchoo, 30 kilometres (19 miles) southeast The ambush comes a day after govern- of Srinagar near the forested area of Tral, ment forces killed a top militant from out- an army spokesman said. lawed group Lashkar-E-Taiba (LeT) in “The militants fired at the soldiers from Srinagar during an early morning gun bat- outside the village, when the cordon was tle. Armed rebels have fought Indian secu- laid,” Lieutenant Colonel Ankur Vashist told rity forces in Kashmir since 1989 in an effort RANCHI: Indian farmers lie on the ground with sticks as they pray for rain during the AFP in Srinagar. “Four of our soldiers were to secure the independence of the region killed,” Vashist said. The rebels fled into the or its merger with Pakistan. The conflict Manda Festival at a temple on the outskirts of Ranchi, the capital of India’s Jharkhand forest and the army called in reinforce- has left tens of thousands, mostly civilians, state, yesterday. The festival takes place during the hot summer months as farmers ments to encircle the area and try to cap- dead so far. —AFP pray for rain, prosperity and good health. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 N Korea will take ‘positive steps’ for peace: Envoy Envoy meets Xi, Chinese officials

BEIJING: A North Korean envoy told China’s president yes- collapsed in 2008 when the North walked away from the terday that his reclusive country was willing to take “posi- deal. China, North Korea’s only real ally, has been pushing tive actions” to ensure peace and stability on the Korean for a return to talks after weeks of bellicose words from peninsula, as China steps up diplomatic efforts to bring Pyongyang following new United Nations sanctions after Pyongyang back to talks. the North’s third nuclear test in February. However, with- Choe Ryong-hae, a special envoy of North Korean leader out an offer from North Korea to abandon its nuclear pro- Kim Jong-un, met Chinese officials, including President Xi gram, talks with South Korea and the United States look OSAKA: Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto (right) speaks Jinping, in the highest-ranking visit by an official from unlikely. The United States insists North Korea must take during a news conference at Osaka City Hall in Osaka, Pyongyang in about six months. But Choe made no new meaningful steps on denuclearization before there can be western Japan yesterday. — AP offer to abandon the North Korea’s nuclear program. talks. China has looked on nervously at the ratcheting up of Chinese state media said Choe presented a hand-writ- tension, fearful a misstep could plunge the peninsula into Two ex-sex slaves want ten letter from Kim to Xi at Beijing’s Great Hall of the war which could envelop northeastern China. — Reuters Japan mayor to quit People. Media provided no details of its contents. “North Korea is willing to make joint efforts with all parties to OSAKA: Two Korean former sex slaves demanded the res- appropriately resolve related issues through multilateral ignation of an outspoken Japanese mayor and canceled a dialogue and consultations like the six-party talks, and meeting with him yesterday for justifying Japan’s wartime maintain peace and stability on the peninsula,” the official practice of forcing tens of thousands of Asian women into Xinhua news service cited Choe as telling Xi. “To this end, prostitution for its military. Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, North Korea is willing to take positive actions,” Choe also co-leader of a nationalist party, enraged Japanese added. Xi told Choe that the denuclearization of the penin- neighbors last week by saying the use of so-called comfort sula was an aspiration of all peoples and an inevitable women, mainly from South Korea, China and the trend, saying problems should be resolved through talks. Philippines, in frontline brothels before and during World “China hopes all sides exercise calm and restraint, push War II was considered necessary then to maintain military for a lessening of tensions, restart the six-party talks discipline and give soldiers relief. process and make unremitting efforts ... for long-lasting Hashimoto told reporters later yesterday that the cancel- peace and stability,” Xi said. lation was “very unfortunate” but that he respects their China has repeatedly urged North Korea to return to the feelings. He said he had hoped to show his sympathy over so-called six party talks process, aimed at denuclearization. their wartime sufferings as sex slaves, and would have apol- The United States and its allies believe the North violat- ogized for hurting their feelings because of his remarks that ed a 2005 aid-for-denuclearization deal by conducting a he said were misrepresented by the media. Supporters of nuclear test in 2006 and pursuing a uranium enrichment the two women in their 80s, Kim Bok-dong and Kil Won-ok, program that would give it a second path to a nuclear said there would be nothing to talk about because weapon in addition to its plutonium-based program. he BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) greets Hashimoto has showed no remorse over his remarks. They six-party aid-for-disarmament talks, involving the two North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae in Beijing suspected he may have wanted to use the meeting - to be Koreas, the United States, Japan, Russia and host China, yesterday. — AP broadcast live on TV - to appear friendly with them and calm public criticism, the supporters told journalists. The women, who did not appear in public, said in a statement they were heartbroken by Hashimoto’s “outra- Amnesty urges Malaysia to geous comments” and didn’t want to be seen contributing to a less-than-sincere apology. Instead, they demanded that Hashimoto, 43, apologize end post-poll crackdown and resign as mayor of Japan’s second-biggest city. “We cannot compromise our painful past as victims and the KUALA LUMPUR: Global rights group the Sedition Act-which Prime Minister elected lawmaker, and two activists reality that we still live today for Mayor Hashimoto’s apolo- Amnesty International urged Malaysia Najib Razak pledged last year to were arrested under the “repressive gy performance,” the women said in a statement. “We don’t yesterday to end its “post-election repeal-comes amid opposition claims law... solely for peacefully expressing need to be trampled on again.” crackdown” which has seen four critics that fraud marred the May 5 general their political beliefs”. “Rather than Hashimoto also angered the US by suggesting American arrested in the aftermath of the gov- election and cost them victory. abolishing the repressive sedition law troops based in southern Japan should patronize legal ernment’s worst electoral result. The London-based Amnesty International as promised, the government is now adult entertainment establishments as a way to reduce sex arrests made in the past week under said the two politicians, including an using it against peaceful protestors,” crimes there. said its Asia-Pacific deputy director The women, regulars at a weekly protest outside the Isabelle Arradon in a statement. Senior Japanese Embassy in Seoul, and their supporters originally opposition politician Chua Tian Chang, requested a meeting with Hashimoto last year, which was his colleague Tamrin Ghafar, and rejected. Hashimoto suddenly told them they could meet activist Haris Ibrahim were detained with him the day he made the inflammatory comments on Thursday, Kuala Lumpur police chief May 13, Japanese supporters said. They said the timing Mohmad Salleh said in a statement. seemed odd, and were skeptical about his motive. The three were held overnight for Both women have said in past accounts of their ordeals what police said were statements that they were deceived into becoming sex slaves to made during a public post-election Japanese soldiers. Kim was recruited to work at a military forum on May 13 “inciting” people. uniform factory when she was 15, but ended up at a mili- They were released yesterday after a tary-run brothel in Guangdong in southern China. She was further remand application was dragged across Asia, from Hong Kong to Singapore and denied by a local judge. Earlier Indonesia until the end of war. She had to take an average Thursday student activist Adam Adli of 15 soldiers per day during the week, and dozens over the Halim was also charged under the weekend. She and other girls were closely watched by Sedition Act over a statement made at guards and could not escape. Hoping to help her poor fam- the same forum, and then released on ily, Kil took a factory job in 1940 when she was only 13. But bail. The clampdown shows no sign of she was sent to China, where she was repeatedly raped YANGON: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (center) waves as he arrives slowing down. Opposition MP Thomas until the war’s end in 1945. Historians say up to 200,000 with his wife (2R) at Yangon International Airport in Yangon yesterday. Su said yesterday he has been ordered women from across Asia were forced to provide sex for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe flew to Myanmar yesterday bearing almost one to appear in court Monday to face a Japanese soldiers. While some other World War II armies billion dollars in development aid and a plan for a nationwide electricity charge under the Peaceful Assembly had military brothels, Japan is the only country accused of grid as Japan tries to grab the box seats in the country’s quickening devel- Act for allegedly organising an “illegal” such widespread, organized sexual slavery. —AP opment. —AFP post-election rally. —AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 How is US drone policy changing? WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama defended collected data on the CIA drone strikes. The best estimates drone program derives from the president’s constitutional America’s drone attacks as legal, effective and necessary in are that the CIA has conducted more than 350 drone strikes power to protect the US from imminent attack. The admin- America’s campaign to counter terrorism. But he acknowl- in Pakistan since 2004 and fewer than 100 total in Yemen istration has also cited the Authorization for Use of Military edged the targeted strikes are no “cure-all” and said and Somali. US officials have only rarely referred to the Force, which Congress approved shortly after the Sept. 11, Thursday he was haunted by the civilians unintentionally agency’s secret drone program publicly, but there is now a 2001, attacks, as legal backing for strikes against Al-Qaeda killed. He said he had signed new policy guidelines for the shift to transfer authority for drone strikes to the military for and its affiliates. use of drones and said he wanted to find ways to allow all but those conducted in Pakistan and Yemen. Estimates Q: Does Obama have the authority to kill an American additional oversight of the program. suggest that as many as 3,000 people have been killed by citizen on US soil? Some questions and answers about the program: US drones since 2004, the majority in Pakistan. The group A: Attorney General Eric Holder, testifying on Capitol Q: What are they? New America Foundation estimates that roughly 21 per- Hill, did not rule out such a possibility but said he could only A: The US has an extensive fleet of remotely piloted cent of those killed are believed to be non-militants. foresee that happening in an extraordinary circumstance, vehicles, known as drones, but it relies most heavily for tar- Q: How will US drone policy change? such as the 9/11 attack or the bombing of Pearl Harbor. geted strikes on the Predators and Reapers, which are A: Obama said the administration has routinely briefed Obama said he does not believe it would be constitutional armed with Hellfire missiles. They are controlled from as far Congress on drone strikes, but that information is often for the government to target and kill any US citizen - with a away as the US, but also from bases closer to the war zones, classified, so is not available to the public. Obama pledged drone or a shotgun - without due process. He added, “Nor including Djibouti and Sicily. Thursday to consider ways to try to increase the oversight should any president deploy armed drones over US soil.” Q: Who conducts drone strikes? of drone strikes outside war zones. And he said he has Q: What does the American public think of the drone A: The US military has routinely conducted drone strikes signed new policy guidance that spells out the guidelines program? in war zones, including a bit more than 500 in Afghanistan for the use of drones. The policy calls for drone strikes only A: Most polls show Americans broadly support the use last year, an increase over the 2011 number of nearly 300. when the target poses a “continuing and imminent” threat of drones to target suspected terrorists in foreign countries, Those drone strikes are largely known and are part of the to the American people and when there is no other way to though support drops somewhat if the target is a US citizen military’s warfighting effort. The CIA, meanwhile, conducts effectively address the threat. The president also said that and drops dramatically if they were to be used in the its own, more secret drone war, mainly concentrating on before any strike is carried out, there must be “near certain- United States. A CBS News/New York Times poll in April strikes in Pakistan’s border region, as well as in Yemen and ty that no civilians will be killed or injured.” found that 70 percent of Americans favor using drones to Somalia. Q: What is the administration’s legal rationale for using attack suspected terrorists in foreign countries, while 20 Q: How big is the CIA program? drones to kill terror suspects, including US citizens, percent opposed it. Republicans were most supportive of A: While the government does not disclose details overseas? drones - 79 percent favor, compared with 70 percent of about the classified program, independent groups have A: Administration officials say the basis for the armed independents and 64 percent of Democrats. — AP US lifts ban on Gitmo transfers to Yemen A step toward closing military prison WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama is lifting his self-imposed ban on transferring WASHINGTON: Crews survey the scene of a bridge col- Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen, a step lapse on Interstate 5 on Thursday near Mt Vernon, toward his goal of closing the US military-run Washington. — AFP prison that he said “has become a symbol around the world for an America that flouts US bridge collapse the rule of law.” Nearly 100 of the 166 terrorist suspects sends cars, people held at the prison in Cuba are from Yemen and have had nowhere to go even if they into river had been cleared for transfer. Obama would- n’t send them home, and no other country LOS ANGELES: A highway bridge over a river in the northwest- was welcoming them. Their hopelessness ern US state of Washington partially collapsed Thursday, sending after a decade or more of imprisonment has cars and people plunging into the water below without causing contributed to a hunger strike at the deten- any fatalities. Three people were fished out but there were no tion facility that helped reignite the long- reports of serious injuries or fatalities in the incident, which offi- stalled effort to close it. cials said appeared to have been caused by a high-sided truck A leadership upheaval in Yemen has hitting a bridge span. Pictures showed a large mangled section of improved the country’s security but not elim- the bridge, which carries the Interstate 5 highway over the Skagit inated a terrorist organization trying to river north of Seattle, collapsed into the water, with traffic and recruit jihadists. But Obama’s decision WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama listens as a protester shouts crowds of people visible on the end nearest land. announced Thursday is not without risk. Detainees who have been released to Yemen during a speech about his administration’s drone and counterterrorism The four-lane road bridge, built in 1955 according to reports, policies, as well as the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, at the National is some 60 miles north of Seattle. The I-5 freeway runs up the US in the past have joined terrorist fighters in the Arab nation. The security concerns Defense University in Washington.—AFP West Coast, from the Mexican border all the way to Canada. year. Al-Qaeda had been on the upswing rehabilitation center to help reintegrate “The good news is, it appears there have been no fatalities,” prompted Obama to suspend transfers to Yemen in January 2010 after a Nigerian man under Saleh, but his successor, Abed Rabbo detainees with the support of the US and oth- Washington Governor Jay Inslee told reporters during a visit to attempted to blow up a US-bound flight on Mansour Hadi, has made fighting terrorism a er Arab nations. Rageh Badi, an adviser to the scene. Christmas Day 2009 with explosives hidden top goal and restored cooperation with the Yemen’s prime minister, said in an interview “There were three people who were rescued from the river” in his underwear on instructions from al- United States in the effort. that the transfer ban had cast a shadow on and taken to local hospitals, he said, adding “there were some Qaida operatives in Yemen. Sen. Saxby Obama announced that he was lifting the the relations with the United States. Badi said injuries,” without providing further details. Authorities called off Chambliss, an opposition Republican, was moratorium on Yemeni transfers in a speech lifting the ban is a “welcome step, a progres- the search and rescue operation later Thursday night. “It appears among those on Capitol Hill criticizing at the National Defense University in which sive one that removes much of the ambiguity as though there was only the three victims and there is nobody Obama’s change in policy. “Between he also defended targeted killings by US aeri- and confusion between the US administra- else in the water. We’ve discontinued our search,” Skagit County December 2009 and today, has Yemen al drones and pushed Congress anew to tion and the Yemeni government.” Yemeni Sheriff Will Reichardt told reporters. A law enforcement source shown any indication that they are more authorize Guantanamo’s closure. The presi- authorities previously had a system to moni- cited by the Seattle Times said about 150 yards (140 meters) of capable of looking after those individuals? dent did not explain his rationale behind the tor returned detainees, but it ceased to func- freeway collapsed, sending a car, a truck and a trailer into the Absolutely not,” Chambliss said. “And If we change in Yemen policy, but senior adminis- tion after massive anti-government protests water some 120 feet (40 meters) below. were to transfer those individuals to Yemen, tration officials cited Hadi’s leadership as an swept most of the country, starting in early “It’s a hell of a ride,” the source was quoted as saying. The gov- it would be just like turning them loose.” increasingly able partner to the US. 2011. Of the estimated 30 Yemenis who ernor said a full investigation had been launched but that the col- Yemeni watchers in the US say there is A Yemeni official told The AP that a dele- returned from Guantanamo, only a handful lapse-which took place at 7:00 pm (0200 GMT yesterday) — reason to hope security has improved since gation, including the country’s human rights had stayed in Sanaa, the capital, while the rest appeared to have been triggered by a large truck hitting some longtime authoritarian leader Ali Abdullah minister, returned this week after a trip to moved to remote areas where government part of the bridge structure. — AFP Saleh was ousted after mass uprisings last Washington, where they agreed to set up of a authority is minimal, or nonexistent. — AP Orascom Telecom is closer IMF chief grilled for 2nd Wall Street Businessto delisting after tender 16 day in corruption probe 17slips on anxiety 20

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MADRID: A man wearing a Spiderman outfit performs for money as tourists look at the main square. Spanish savers vented their fury against bailed-out Bankia yesterday after the already- diminished value of their stock investments in the bank plummeted by more than half in a single day. —AP (See Page 17) Germany builds up steam for growth Govt hopes firms will start investing, economists doubtful

FRANKFURT: The German economy, after starting the year weakly, And on the consumer front, too, German households are not allow- But she believed the Ifo index “has long painted an overly optimistic looks set to gather momentum later with consumer and business confi- ing forecasts of a euro-zone-wide recession sour their optimism and the picture of the German economy.” “We still expect only a modest pick-up dence on the rise, data indicated yesterday. Final data published by the GfK institute said its monthly consumer confidence index is forecast to in German GDP growth, which will not be strong enough to ensure a federal statistics office Destatis showed that Germany’s gross domestic rise to 6.5 points in June from 6.2 points in May. That would be its highest recovery in the euro-zone as a whole,” McKeown concluded. “Today’s Ifo product (GDP) notched up anaemic growth of 0.1 percent from January level since September 2007. “Firms are clearly more satisfied with their data really provide a lot of relief,” said UniCredit economist Andreas Rees. to March, with only consumer spending in positive territory. While weak, current business situation than in the previous month. The outlook for It was not necessarily the jump in the current business assessment the numbers meant the German economy has successfully skirted a future business is unchanged and slightly positive,” said Ifo economist that was most reassuring, but the stabilisation in German companies’ recession following a sharp contraction of 0.7 percent in the previous Kai Carstensen. “The German economy remains on track in a challenging business expectations, he said. Taking the Ifo data at face value, “our quarter, since a recession is technically defined as two quarters running European environment,” he insisted. GDP tracker signals a plus of 0.3-0.4 percent in the third quarter,” Rees of economic contraction. said. “Indeed, we think that both companies and consumers have a cou- But a breakdown of the figures appeared to offer little cheer, since Consumers “Riding to the rescue” ple of aces in their sleeves which will make the economy running at a among the different GDP components only private consumer spending GfK attributed the robustness of consumer confidence to “the decent pace in the further course of 2013,” he argued. was positive, growing by 0.8 percent. Public-sector spending slipped by favourable and stable framework conditions in Germany. The high level There would be a rebound in construction activity following the 0.1 percent, investment tumbled 2.4 percent, imports were down 2.1 of employment, favourable wage agreements and slowing inflation are unusually harsh winter weather. And “there are reasons to believe that percent and exports contracted by 1.8 percent, the statisticians calculat- buoying sentiment,” it said. “Germany’s consumers are riding to the res- some of the positive fundamental momentum will carry over into the ed. Destatis blamed the unexpectedly weak start to the year to the cue,” said Berenberg Bank economist Christian Schulz. “With the euro cri- second half of the year,” Rees said. Schulz at Berenberg Bank warned that “extreme winter weather conditions.” sis fading from the headlines, strong fundamentals such as low unem- the outlook for German exports would “likely remain clouded for a while, Nevertheless, the government, economic think-tanks and analysts ployment, rising wages and low inflation are starting to have their ‘nor- but as the US economic recovery gathers strength and the euro-zone is are all convinced the economy will start picking up speed soon. Two mal’ effect. And more growth is in store,” he said. stabilising, the outlook should be improving for German exporters, too, new key confidence surveys also published yesterday fed such opti- “In 2013, Germany will have to rely largely on domestic demand for despite tough competition from Japan.” IHS Global Insight economist mism. German business confidence rose unexpectedly in May, with the growth,” Schulz said. Capital Economics economist Jennifer McKeown Timo Klein said he is predicting full-year GDP growth of 0.6 percent in Ifo economic institute’s closely watched business climate index rising to said that the renewed rise in the Ifo index and the increase in the GfK 2013 and 1.5 percent in 2014, warning that the debt crisis “remains a 105.7 points in May from 104.4 points in April. barometer “will add to hopes that the economy is recovering.” restraining factor due to lingering uncertainty.” —AFP BUSINESS SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

Egypt’s cash-strapped rulers woo ex-tycoons

CAIRO: Almost three years after an Authorities are now negotiating with The reconciliation deals are rooted in covers an important part of the budget, uprising fuelled by the old regime’s Hussein Salem, on trial in absentia along a decision by the former military rulers, social security payments,” said Ahmed venality, Egypt’s cash-strapped Islamist with the toppled president Hosni who took charge of the country after Al-Sayyed Al-Naggar. Naggar, an analyst government is making amends with Mubarak on corruption charges. Salem, Mubarak’s overthrow and before with the Al-Ahram Centre for Political businessmen who offer to pay their way once a close associate of Mubarak, fled President Mohamed Morsi’s election last and Strategic back into the fold. The presidency, to Spain after the early 2011 uprising June. The military’s decree allows for rec- Studies, a government-funded think strapped to a free falling economy, has that overthrew Mubarak. He has already onciliation as long as court sentences tank, believes there could also be a said it encourages reconciliation with been sentenced to 15 years in prison in against the businessmen convicted of political aspect to the reconciliation the businessmen. The presidency has another corruption trial. The prosecution corruption under Mubarak can be deals. Morsi’s movement, the Muslim sent “a positive message to business- announced that Salem has offered to appealed. Brotherhood, “believes that Mubarak’s men to encourage them to settle their forego 75 percent of his family’s wealth Economic analysts say the overtures businessmen are capable of funding situation legally, and the state strongly in Egypt, and more than half of its prop- to the businessmen aim at scraping in election campaigns against them,” he welcomes them to participate,” said erties and fortune abroad. funds to cushion the economy, which said. presidential spokesman Ihab Fahmy. The prosecution said it was still in has sharply declined since the 18-day Egypt is expected to hold a parlia- Fahmy’s statement came after the talks with Salem’s lawyer. It demands uprising that ousted Mubarak. The upris- mentary election later this year to country’s tax authority reconciled with Salem’s former business partners abroad ing ushered almost two years of political replace the Islamist-dominated house the multi-billionaire Sawiris family, to drop their claims against Egypt after instability, punctuated with often deadly annulled by a court before Morsi’s elec- accused of tax evasion through a com- the cancellation of contracts with protests and a deadlock between the tion. Abdul Hafiz Al-Sawi, who sits on pany in their Orascom conglomerate. Salem’s former company, East Islamist Morsi and his secular leaning the economic committee of the The dispute was settled with an agree- Mediterranean Gas. Salem’s lawyer, opposition. Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice ment to pay a little over $1 billion dollars Tareq Abdel Aziz, has been quoted in “The deal the government made with Party, defends the controversial deals as over a five year period, with an immedi- Egyptian press estimating his client’s the Sawiris family which brings in 2.5 bil- long as “the state’s funds are not lost ate payment of $357 million. worth at $1.6 billion. lion pounds (357 million dollars) almost and they are done legally.” —AFP Orascom Telecom is closer to delisting after tender 10% of shares tendered in buyout offer

CAIRO/MOSCOW: Egypt’s Orascom such as Bangladesh. ty over the fate of Orascom’s most lucra- Telecom (OTH) is closer to being delisted, Some analysts have warned the delist- tive asset, Algeria’s Djezzy. sources said yesterday, after holders of ing could expose low corporate gover- Algeria wants to nationalise Djezzy and around 10 percent of its stock agreed to nance standards as OTH minority share- has pushed Vimpelcom into discussing a be bought out. Russia’s Altimo, the holders are being forced to sell their sale of 51 percent. The talks are at a deli- biggest owner of OTH’s parent shares at a set price or be left holding an cate stage, a source has told Reuters. A MUMBAI: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Vimpelcom , made a $1.8 billion offer in untraded stock. To approve the delisting, positive resolution may boost the stock (right) and Finance Minister P Chidambaram arrive for March to buy out OTH minorities and 75 percent of shareholders present at a well above the offer price, the analyst said. the function to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Securities sources said Vimpelcom wanted to delist meeting should vote for it, said Ivan Kim, “So far I just can’t imagine on what OTH from both the Cairo and London an analyst at VTB Capital. assumptions minority shareholders and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) yesterday. —AFP stock exchanges. But as it is rare that 100 percent of should act,” he said, with speculation that Delisting should allow Vimpelcom to shareholders show up, Altimo and Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika US lauds India for cut the costs of its Egyptian office, avoid Vimpelcom will likely need to own less was seriously ill clouding prospects for a regulatory risks and political instability as than 75 percent of shares between them resolution to the talks. “The offer has not well as improve efficiency by placing OTH to have it passed, analysts said. One ana- yet closed so we cannot comment on any reducing Iran oil assets under direct management by lyst, who asked not to be named, said the numbers,” Altimo told Reuters when con- NEW DELHI: A senior American official yesterday praised Vimpelcom. OTH management last week OTH shareholders may be reluctant to ten- tacted for comment. Orascom could not advised shareholders to reject the offer, der their shares due to ongoing uncertain- be reached for comment. —Reuters India for reducing oil imports from Iran and said the US gov- saying it was too low. But Altimo on ernment will decide soon on New Delhi’s request to renew a Tuesday confirmed the offer price at $0.70 waiver from sanctions on Tehran. US Under Secretary for per share. Political Affairs Wendy Sherman said that India’s reduction of A source close to advisers on the offer oil imports was supporting US and European Union sanc- said that in addition to the 10 percent tions against Iran, which are aimed at deterring the country tendered by holders of London-listed from developing nuclear weapons. global depositary shares, three funds India slashed imports of Iranian crude by nearly 27 per- holding another 3 percent of OTH shares cent in the financial year that ended March 31, according to in the form of GDSs between them had the Press Trust of India news agency. However, India is reliant expressed interest after the offer expired on imported crude and is reluctant to completely stop on May 22. They may convert their GDSs imports from Iran. India’s waiver from the sanctions runs out into common shares to qualify for the next month. offer made to holders of Cairo-traded “I think that India has really made a tremendous progress stock who have until May 27 to accept in reducing the level of its importation of Iranian oil,” the offer, the source said, adding there is Sherman told reporters. “All of the data is certainly in a posi- a possibility it will be extended by up to tive direction.” She also said India had stood with the interna- five days. tional community in telling Iran that that it should not The source could not provide informa- acquire nuclear weapons. Iran insists its nuclear program is tion on the amount of shares tendered in for peaceful purposes Sherman was in New Delhi to prepare the Egyptian part of the offer. “If 10 per- cent tendered in London, you would nor- for US Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to India next mally expect more in Cairo where the month. She said that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh forex component is more important and was expected to visit Washington in the near future. Energy- liquidity is lower,” another source familiar starved India imports around 75 percent of its oil to power its with the deal said. economic growth. India’s junior minister for petroleum, “Most people tender on the last day ATHENS: An elderly man looks in his wallet during a protest organ- Panabakka Lakshmi, told Parliament in March that Saudi which is Monday,” the source added. Arabia was India’s main supplier of crude oil, followed by Together with subsidiaries, Vimpelcom ized by a pro-communist union PAME, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Iraq, Venezuela, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and owns 51.92 percent of OTH which has About 10,000 people joined a peaceful protest march in central Nigeria. Iran was seventh, down from its earlier position as mobile businesses in Canada, Algeria, Athens to demand the renewal of collective labor agreements that India’s third-largest supplier of crude oil in 2011. —AP Pakistan and other emerging markets expire this year. —AP BUSINESS SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 IMF chief grilled for 2nd day in corruption probe Stakes high for Lagarde, IMF

PARIS: French prosecutors began ques- Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential would not have been able to pursue the tioning IMF chief Christine Lagarde for a election. case through the courts. second day yesterday to decide if she They have suggested Lagarde-who at The payment Tapie received enabled should be charged over a state payout to the time was finance minister-was partly him to clear his huge debts and tax liabil- a disgraced tycoon during her time as responsible for “numerous anomalies ities and, according to media reports, left finance minister. Lagarde was grilled for and irregularities” which could lead to him with 20 million to 40 million euros 12 hours on Thursday over her 2007 han- charges for complicity in fraud and mis- which he has used to relaunch his busi- dling of a row that resulted in 400 million appropriation of public funds. The inves- ness career. Tapie, who recently pur- euros ($515 million) being paid to con- tigation centres on her 2007 move to ask chased a newspaper group in the south troversial business figure Bernard Tapie. a panel of judges to arbitrate in a dispute of France, said he “is not at all worried” Trade event combines The chic Lagarde, considered one of the KSA’s top energy-related world’s most powerful women, won respect as France’s first female finance trade shows minister for her no-nonsense style, intel- lect and style. She greeted journalists RIYADH: Saudi Energy 2013 - The 16th International Trade but did not make any statements upon Exhibition for Electricity Power Generation, Alternative her arrival at the courthouse yesterday. Energy, Water Technology, Lighting & HVAC, will open Lagarde has downplayed the investi- tomorrow with over 200 local and foreign energy compa- gation, but the stakes are high for both nies confirming their participation. Saudi Energy 2013 will her and the International Monetary be held at the Riyadh Fund, which has expressed confidence in its first woman leader. She could eventu- International Convention ally be named an assisted witness, and Exhibition Centre and whose status falls between that of sim- will run until May 29, 2013. ple witness and formal investigation and Exhibitors from Austria, implies there is some evidence against Bahrain, China, Germany, the person questioned, or placed under India, Ireland, Italy, Korea, investigation-the closest equivalent in Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, French law to being charged. Thailand, Turkey and the Criminal charges against Lagarde would mark the second straight scandal UAE will be attending the for an IMF chief, after her predecessor four-day trade event, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, also from PARIS: International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde (center) while there will be nation- France, resigned in disgrace in 2011 over arrives for a second day of the court hearing at a special court house al pavilions from China, an alleged assault on a New York hotel yesterday. —AP Khalid Daou Korea, Turkey, Romania, maid. The IMF reiterated its support on Saudi Arabia and the Thursday, with a spokesman saying: “The UAE. Organized by Riyadh Exhibitions Company under the executive board has been briefed on between Tapie and Credit Lyonnais, the and that the arbitrage was transparent. patronage of the Ministry of Water and Electricity, Saudi that matter, including recently, and con- collapsed, partly state-owned bank, over Lagarde has said the arbitration was Energy 2013 comprises four of Saudi Arabia’s top energy- tinues to express its confidence in the his 1993 sale of sports group Adidas. necessary to put an end to a costly dis- managing director’s ability to effectively Tapie had accused Credit Lyonnais of pute, and has always denied having act- related shows: SAUDI ELENEX 2013: The 16th International carry out her duties.” defrauding him by consciously under- ed under orders from Sarkozy. Lagarde, Electrical Engineering, Power Generation & Distribution The investigation concerns Tapie, a valuing Adidas at the time of the sale who was France’s first female finance Exhibition; SAUDI LUMINEX 2013: The 13th International former politician, who went to prison for and argued that the state, as the former minister from 2007 to 2011 after rising to Lighting Equipment Show; SAUDI AIRCON 2013: The 14th match-fixing during his time as president principal shareholder in the bank, should the executive board of US legal giant International Exhibition on Air-Conditioning Heating, of French football club Olympique de compensate him. His arguments were Baker & McKenzie, would not automati- Ventilation & Refrigeration; and SAUDI WATER TECH: The Marseille. Prosecutors working for the upheld by the arbitration panel but crit- cally be forced to resign as IMF chief if 10th International Exhibition for Water Technology. Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR), ics claimed the state should not have she is charged. But such a ruling would Khaled Daou, Project Manager of Saudi Energy at which probes cases of ministerial mis- taken the risk of being forced to pay certainly weaken her position and under- conduct, suspect he received favourable compensation to a convicted criminal mine her future ambitions on the world Riyadh Exhibitions Company, said: “Saudi Energy contin- treatment in return for supporting who, as he was bankrupt at the time, stage. —AFP ues to attract the most influential energy-related compa- nies, decision makers and market leaders from all over the world, creating an ideal networking platform to identify new projects, generate business leads and learn about the Spaniards rail at Bankia latest advances in energy technology. We therefore invite all specialists in the energy field to take part and benefit from the wide array of learning, business and networking as savings evaporate opportunities that Saudi Energy has to offer. The show has MADRID: consistently attracted a growing number of visitors over Spanish savers vented their fury against bailed-out investors called their bank branches wanting to sell their Bankia the years and we are confident of setting a new record Bankia yesterday after the already-diminished value of their stock shares, but were told they had to wait until Tuesday, Spanish investments in the bank plummeted by more than half in a single media said. In theory individual investors could have sold their because of the growing dynamism and aggressive expan- day. The stock market regulator, the CNMV, said it would exam- shares on Thursday, said Soledad Pellon, strategist at brokerage sion across KSA’s vast energy sector.” ine trading in Bankia shares on Thursday, when the value of the house IG Markets. Saudi Energy 2013 will be providing a comprehensive stock plunged 51.4 percent to just 0.68 euros ($0.88) in brisk “But they don’t know these practices. Institutional investors technology showcase covering all energy sectors from trade. By coincidence, the market rout came a day before chiefs are much better informed about all the possibilities,” Pellon said, electricity generation and distribution to alternative and of Spain’s biggest banks came to testify as witnesses at the adding that she believed the trade was legal. Another brokerage renewable energy technologies; modern lighting products National Court in Madrid about Bankia’s ill-fated listing in July house, Link Securities, said it believed the short-selling flouted and technologies; water and water resources management 2011. Spanish regulations. “These sharp drop puts small shareholders technologies; and HVAC. Complementing the unprece- “Thieves”, cried a group of protesters who gathered outside in a weaker position because they can’t sell and now face heavy the court as the bank chiefs arrived. Bankia president Jose Ignacio losses,” the group said. dented growth of KSA’s energy sector, Saudi Energy serves Goirigolzarri told radio Cope he welcomed the regulator’s inquiry On Tuesday, Bankia will boost its share capital by 15.54 billion as the destination of choice for all stakeholders in the ener- into Thursday’s trading, which he could not explain. “It is difficult euros, which had been expected to lead to an average loss of 36-38 gy sector including government officials, investors and to understand, I don’t understand it,” he said. The Bankia boss percent for existing shareholders. Thursday’s slump makes those buyers. Saudi Energy is certified by the UFI - The Global said he suspected institutions had engaged in short-selling, in losses much greater, however. The investigation into the share Association of the Exhibition Industry - in recognition of its which traders bet that a stock price will fall. trading comes as the courts investigate the original listing of Bankia world-class activities prepared and managed under inter- The Spanish daily El Mundo also reported several banks had nearly two years ago, with 33 bank officials suspected of fraud, national standards. engaged in short selling. As the price collapsed, many small embezzlement and providing false annual accounts. —AFP BUSINESS SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 Luxury brands positioned for giant US boom China second to US in 2012 luxury retail growth

PARIS: Most men might balk at spending $600 French fashion house Christian Dior, part of on a pair of Dior sneakers but for US shoppers like LVMH. Ephraim, an upbeat 30-year-old, such indul- gences are becoming increasingly commonplace. Growth spurt Ephraim is the kind of man who gives luxury Major brands like Prada, Hermes, Burberry, goods makers high hopes that the US market can and Hugo Boss are opening shops or expanding fuel future growth, as China runs out of steam existing ones in the United States, and are step- and demand in Europe sags. “There is a cultural ping up their advertising spend. In July, shift,” Ephraim says while browsing at Saks Inc’s Alexander McQueen will open a 3,900-foot store New York City flagship. “Men are becoming more on New York’s Madison Avenue. Next year, fashion forward.” The growing appeal of luxury Burberry plans to launch a new flagship on goods to men and increased confidence among Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. LVMH and PPR, soon affluent spenders as the US economy and asset to be renamed Kering, are also expanding in the prices recover have boosted sales and encour- United States while putting the brakes on China, aged luxury brands to step up their investments which had been the major driver for luxury sales in the United States.More foreign shoppers are until last year. “I think the US holds a lot more also thronging stores as the US government eas- potential than people believe while the focus has es visa restrictions to attract more tourists. Luxury very much been on the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, spending in the United States collapsed after the China) countries,” said Robert Chavez, head of US PARIS: David Bricaud, a valet at the luxuryhotel “Prince de Galles” (Prince of Wales), is pic- 2008 financial crisis but roared back to pre-crisis operations at Hermes. tured. The Prince de Galles, on the Avenue George V in Paris reopened under the “Luxury levels by 2012. Last year, the world’s No.1 and The French group, which opened its only Collection” brand after two years of renovation. — AFP No.3 luxury groups LVMH and PPR saw higher shop dedicated to men on Madison Avenue in growth rates in the United States than in China 2010, now makes about 15 percent of its sales in Tourists are coming 2.6 million to the United States. Travel agents say for the first time in years. the United States, up from 10 percent five years PPR boss Francois-Henri Pinault reckons US visa approvals require more proof of employ- Sales in the Americas are expected to grow 5- ago. China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao that rising numbers of tourists to the United ment history and finances than for France or 7 percent this year, compared to 6-8 percent in account for 20 percent. “We have noticed a rise in States will enable it to narrow the gap with Italy. The United States would earn $20 billion mainland China and 0-2 percent in Europe, men’s purchases, particularly in the last two Europe, where visitors account for about half more from luxury sales if it had as many tourists according to consultancy Bain & Co. Evidence is years,” said Chavez. Ties, shoes and $8,000 cus- of luxury sales. That contrasts with 15-20 per- from emerging markets as Europe, New York- already showing through. Ralph Lauren this week tom-made three-piece cashmere suits are all cent in the United States. “We will never have based brokerage International Strategy & forecast US sales growth of 4-7 percent while doing equally well. In the 212 billion euro luxury as many tourists as in Europe but I think that Investment Group (ISI) estimates. The US State high-end department store Saks reported quar- as a whole, the United States outguns China, ratio could reach 30 percent over the next Department says it has cut the wait for a visa- terly sales up 5.9 percent, almost double what even before the new growth spurt. Bain & Co val- few years,” said Milton Predaza, chief execu- related interview in Brazil, where most US luxury analysts had forecast. “(There is) renewed confi- ues the US market at 59 billion euros, Europe at tive of Luxury Institute, a US consultancy. shopping tourists come from, to two days. Clerks dence, a genuine rebound in fashion and luxury 74.2 billion and China-Hong Kong around 22 bil- In 2010, 6 million tourists from Brazil, India at Saks said they had noticed an increase in consumption”, said Sidney Toledano, head of lion. and China flew to Western Europe compared to Brazilian tourists. —Reuters Market turbulence poses first test for Abenomics Bond market stability ‘extremely desirable’

TOKYO: This week’s turbulence in Tokyo markets exposes Federated InterContinental Fund who has increased the a key risk of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s all-in strategy to Japan weighting in her fund to 20 percent from 15 percent revive Japan’s economy - if investor confidence falters, the at end-March. “The economic conditions in Japan are sub- government and the Bank of Japan may be left with few stantially better than they were a few months ago. That will options to turn the tide. Yesterday, the Nikkei share aver- support the market.” age had another tumultuous session, traversing a 7.1 per- But one challenge for Abe and his hand-picked BOJ SYDNEY: Ford cars sit on the forecourt at a Ford dealership after Ford cent range between positive and negative territory before chief, Haruhiko Kuroda, is that the positive wave of investor announced it will cease making vehicles at its unprofitable Australian plants ending up 0.9 percent. The violent moves kept investors on and consumer sentiment has run far ahead of sustainable in 2016 and axe 1,200 jobs, having produced its first car in the country in edge after a 7.3-percent slide on Thursday, the sharpest gains in the world’s third-largest economy in key measures 1925.— AFP drop for the Japanese stock market since the 2011 earth- such as income or corporate spending, analysts say. quake and tsunami. At the same time, the 10-year-bond Australia economy strong yield, a key interest rate linked to home mortgages and ‘The market effect’ business loans, has almost tripled from the 0.315 percent Consumption has picked up and exports have stabilised despite end to Ford-making record low it plumbed in early April just after the central on Abenomics, especially the unprecedented easing by the bank announced its plans for a massive increase in asset BOJ, which has vowed to end 15 years of entrenched defla- SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard told reporters the Australian purchases. tion and tepid growth by doubling the supply of money to Gillard moved to allay fears about the economy was in transition as the invest- The wild market gyrations represent the first serious test generate 2 percent inflation over the coming two years. economy yesterday saying it had strong ment boom in the mining and resources for Abe, who has become a popular figure at home and on Supporters of Abenomics say it’s the best chance Japan has fundamentals, after US carmaker Ford sector wound down, and there would be Wall Street for pro-growth policies featuring massive mon- of escaping the liquidity trap as changing perceptions will announced an end to production in the a loss of jobs as a result. “We do need etary easing, a big burst of government spending and a create a virtuous circle of consumption, bigger company country. Ford said Thursday it will stop other sectors of our economy to step up promised “growth strategy” centred on deregulation and profits, investment and higher wages that ultimately revi- making vehicles at its unprofitable and grow more strongly,” she said, trade liberalisation. talizes growth. Australian plants in 2016, prompting adding that Australia’s proximity to Asia Another issue is the danger of the debilitating side- In his first response to the market turbulence, Kuroda, concern for the manufacturing industry and its rapidly growing middle class effects on asset markets stemming from the eventual roll- largely unruffled, told a seminar that bond market stability which is struggling due to the high would provide opportunities. back of the US Federal Reserve’s massive stimulus - exter- “is extremely desirable.” The BOJ chief also struck an opti- Australian dollar. But she said she was not in favour of nal risks that Tokyo could do little to overcome. In fact, mistic stance on the bank’s policies. “What’s most impor- Gillard admitted the Ford decision to increasing tariffs on imported cars, a Thursday’s Nikkei rout was triggered by weak factory activi- tant is that the effect (of our monetary easing) creates a halt production and cut 1,200 jobs had measure suggested by several back- ty data in China, Japan’s second-biggest export market, positive cycle of production, income and expenditure in made people anxious. But she said: benchers within her centre-left Labor and on concerns sparked by Fed chief Ben Bernanke’s sug- the economy, leading to a gradual rise in prices. That’s our “Even with Ford’s decision yesterday we government to counteract the high gestion that its bond-buying could be tapered this year. hope and something that’s achievable. We’re in the can be reassured that the Australian Australian currency. “I would rule that Most analysts and many overseas investors seemed process of this taking shape,” Kuroda said. economy is resilient and it has strong out, I don’t think that that’s going to ready to write off the Nikkei’s tumble as an inevitable wave The yen is down more than 20 percent against the dol- fundamentals. “Our economy has come assist our manufacturers in the long of profit-taking. The average has only slipped back to its lar and interest rates have remained relatively low, cheer- out of the global financial crisis strong. term,” she said. “I don’t believe that levels as of early May and remains up nearly 70 percent ing investors and Japanese exporters. Japan’s seven We’ve got economic growth, we’ve got imposing tariffs and getting in the way of since mid-November when it became clear Abe was likely automakers, one of the main beneficiaries of the weaker low inflation, low interest rates, relatively us being able to be an exporting nation to be become premier and implement his reflationary poli- yen, have outlined plans to increase capital spending by low unemployment and strong public by potentially sparking trade reprisals is cies. “It’s just a speed bump, in my view,” said New York- almost 15 percent this financial year on a global basis but finances.” the right strategy for Australia.”—AFP based fund manager Audrey Kaplan at the $656 million those plans will take time to play out.—Reuters BUSINESS SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 Latin America’s free trade bloc eyes Asia Pacific Alliance advocates foreign investment

BOGOTA: A Latin American bloc that includes a combined population of 210 million and their dependent on avid Chinese demand for their Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Chile on Thursday total gross domestic product accounts for more products. agreed to eliminate tariffs on most goods to than a third of Latin America’s GDP, said Santos, promote free trade between the countries and dubbing the Alliance the “new economic and Mesh of blocs increase exports to Asia. The members of the development motor” of the region. Despite recent moves by Latin American nascent Pacific Alliance group also aim to pro- Latin America is broadly divided between the nations toward “regional integration,” there are mote free market policies as the key to econom- Pacific countries that are free-trade advocates, bitter internal differences over trade policy. The ic growth, attract more foreign investment and and the Mercosur states on the Atlantic side that Pacific Alliance will aim to gain more clout in Latin integrate their capital markets and energy net- have been more reluctant to drop barriers to America by promoting free trade and focusing on works. At a meeting in the city of Cali, Colombia, trade. Robust economic growth, high commodi- fast-growing Asian economies as an alternative to Zain Kuwait the presidents of the four member countries ty prices and explosive domestic demand have the protectionist policies championed by agreed to remove tariffs on 90 percent of the lured high levels of capital to much of Latin Mercosur members such as Argentina and introduces new goods traded between them, and to eliminate America in the past decade. Venezuela. Even though it is only a year old, the duties on the remaining 10 percent in the medi- According to the United Nations, the Pacific Alliance seems to be gaining momentum. HTC One smartphone um term. The tariffs will be lifted in July, region’s economy is seen growing 3.5 percent Costa Rica, Panama and Guatemala have already Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos told a this year, up from 3 percent in 2012, boosted expressed a desire to become members. The KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications company in Kuwait, press conference after the summit. by strong growth in Brazil and Argentina, surg- group’s progress may be helped by the death of announced yesterday the launch of the new flagship HTC One smart- “The door to our destiny is the construction of ing domestic demand, as well as agriculture Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who spear- phone. HTC is a global leader in mobile device innovation and design, and an area of deep integration that will allow us to and investment. However, the shaky global headed a batch of leftist nations that rejected US its latest product benefits from Zain’s 4G LTE nationwide network in become part of the global economy more suc- scenario, characterized by persistent uncer- “imperialism” and free trade. His death in March Kuwait. The HTC One smartphone is crafted with a distinct zero-gap alu- cessfully and more forcefully - particularly in the tainty and low growth, will likely dampen after a long battle with cancer left Latin America minum unibody and introduces HTC BlinkFeed, HTC Zoe and HTC Asia Pacific region,” Santos told reporters. The demand for commodities produced in Latin without one of its most influential presidents, BoomSound, key new HTC Sense innovations that reinvent the mobile cluster of nations includes some of Latin America. Many countries in the region, whose leading to a power vacuum that could be filled by experience and set a new standard for smartphones. America’s fastest-growing economies. They have exports include soy, copper and oil, are more pragmatic leaders. —Reuters Omar Soud Al-Omar, Zain’s Chief Executive Officer commented: “Zain is always interested in launching the latest and most up-to-date technolo- gies to its customers, and by introducing the new HTC One smartphone we are confirming just that. The unveiling of the new device mirrors the company’s belief in satisfying a customer’s passion for high-tech telecom- 4 tips on managing your munications apparatus.” Jon French, Vice President, HTC MEA said: “The HTC One smartphone is the beginning of a journey that will revolutionize the smartphone space. 401(k) plan effectively We are introducing game-changing technologies that push the bound- aries of smartphone accomplishments further than ever before. The new The run-up in stock prices this year could tempt have that covered, save as much as you can, as ear- “If you’re behind saving or want to retire at an HTC One gives our consumers what they want: easy access to everything even the most hands-off investor to wade into ly in your working years as you can. How much? earlier age, you may find when you crunch the that’s important to them. Every aspect of the HTC One, from its aesthetics their 401(k) and make some changes. The Dow Experts vary on this, but a common benchmark is numbers that to reach your goal you should be to its user interface and ground-breaking technology, was designed Jones industrial average, Nasdaq and Standard & to set aside 15 percent of your pay, including any saving 15 or even 20 percent,” Tyson says. “If you’re because we listened to our consumers, and to the market.” Poor’s 500 indexes are each up more than 20 per- matching funds from your employer. Under IRS at a point in your earnings career where your earn- The new HTC One introduces HTC BlinkFeed, HTC UltraPixels Camera cent over the past 12 months. But experts suggest rules, the maximum contribution is $17,500 this ings are relatively high but you don’t think it’s with HTC Zoe and HTC BoomSound - all new HTC innovations that rein- investors tread cautiously and avoid major year. That means, if your employer is matching up going to last, you don’t want to keep working as vent the mobile experience and set a new standard for smartphones. With changes aimed at timing the market. “It’s a retire- to 3 percent of what you put in, you need to pitch hard, you may want to save 20 percent to 25 per- a zero-gap aluminium unibody, 4.7” Full HD screen, and the latest Android ment account. You are investing for not months or in another 12 percent. If your employer’s match is cent of your income during a certain period.” Jelly Bean operating system with LTE network technology, the new HTC even years, but decades into the future,” says Eric more generous, you can put in less, says Beth Fortunately, there are a bevy of online calculators One packs a real punch through premium design with breakthrough build Tyson, author of “Personal Finance for Dummies.” McHugh, a vice president of market insights at that can help craft an estimate for how much you’ll quality. The new HTC One smartphone was named winner in the Best New He adds: “Most people, including most profes- Fidelity. need to put away for retirement. Look for these on Mobile Handset, Device or Tablet category at the GSMA Awards, held at sional investors, are not very good at market tim- the websites for large 401(k) plan managers such the Mobile World Congress. ing.” Even if you’re a set-it-and-forget-it investor, 2. Don’t bank entirely on as Vanguard, Fidelity or T Rowe Price. A couple of HTC BlinkFeed is a personalised live stream right on the home screen, unless you’ve pulled out of stocks altogether - as winning investments alternatives: The AARP’s calculator and giving you all of your relevant updates - social, entertainment, lifestyle, some investors did right after the 2008 financial The market rises and falls, and timing may not Bankrate.com’s. news, photos and more - in one easy-access place. HTC UltraPixel Camera crisis - it’s likely the stock portion of your 401(k) be on your side - just ask folks who began relying with HTC Zoe takes breakthrough smartphone camera technology to the account has grown significantly in the last few on their retirement savings as the market hit the 4. Rebalance your asset mix next level. By focusing on UltraPixels, which gather more than 300 percent years. Data released Thursday from Fidelity skids in 2008. One good way to maximize your sav- Experts recommend taking a look at your asset more light than traditional smartphone cameras, the HTC One takes Investments show that the average balance of its ings is to put more money into the plan. “Those mix - how much you have invested in certain funds astounding pictures no matter where you are or what you’re doing. HTC 401(k) accounts hit a record high in the first quarter who continued to not just remain invested, but of varying risk, or say, the proportion of your 401(k) BoomSound introduces front-facing stereo speakers with a dedicated of $80,000. That’s up 8.4 percent from the same remained committed to making contributions, are invested in stocks versus bonds or other invest- amplifier to smartphones for the very first time, making the new HTC One period last year, and represents an increase of 75 the ones that were able to come out ahead in the ments - and tweak them occasionally. “Whether the the best audio experience of any mobile phone available today. percent since the stock market hit bottom in the end,” McHugh says. Since the first quarter of 2009, market is up or the market is down, it’s always a first three months of 2009, the company said. In Fidelity’s 401(k) accountholders have, on average, good time,” says Philip Rousseaux, president of contrast, some 1.6 percent of investors age 55 or contributed 8 percent of their pay to their plan. It Everest Wealth Management Inc. “It’s kind of an Austrian bank chief older who eliminated stocks from their portfolios was slightly higher before that. automatic way of always selling high and buying when stocks collapsed in 2008, and never rebal- low.” Simply put, if you’re heavily invested in a seg- quits under cloud anced their holdings, saw their portfolios grow just 3. Periodically assess retirement costs ment of stocks that have gone up sharply, you bring VIENNA: The chief executive of one of Austria’s biggest banks, under 26 percent since the first quarter of 2009, Making sure you’re financial needs are met in down your position on that a bit and shift the funds Herbert Stepic of Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), tendered his sur- Fidelity said. Still, making periodic adjustments to retirement requires having a sense of what those over to a segment that’s undervalued. Rousseaux prise resignation yesterday after magazine revelations about personal your plan’s asset allocation is a wise move, and costs will be. And not just the basics, but any travel recommends rebalancing at least on a quarterly foreign investments. Stepic, 66, credited with helping Raiffeisen part of remaining engaged with your overall retire- or other major purchases. You’ll also need to basis. Tyson, on the other hand, says every three to become a major lender in central and eastern Europe, said that his ment strategy. Here are six ways to efficiently man- update that plan, particularly as you get closer to five years is just fine, unless the market has under- decision to end his 40-year career at the bank was “to avoid any dam- age your 401(k): your post-work life. By some estimates, retirees will gone a significant downturn. As a general rule, age to Raiffeisen’s reputation”. need 85 percent of their pre-retirement income stocks are going to be more volatile and risky in the Not taking questions from reporters, Stepic said that the invest- 1. Get the basics right coming in from several sources, including Social short term, but reduced over the long-term. With ments reported by the News weekly were made in good faith on Don’t leave money on the table. If your compa- Security, 401(k) plans and other retirement bonds, it’s reversed. They’re less volatile in the near advice from Swiss bank UBS and were not “offshore” vehicles aimed ny offers to match up to a certain amount of your accounts, a pension or similar employer-sponsored term, but there’s a chance that they’re not going to at evading tax. According to News, they involved two firms based in 401(k) contribution, make sure you’re putting in plan, and personal assets, such as other invest- give enough of a return in the long term, sapping the British Virgin Islands and in Hong Kong that Stepic, a widely enough to qualify for the maximum. Once you ments, savings or real estate. your funds for retirement. —AP respected figure in the banking sector, used to buy two apartments in Singapore in 2006 and 2008. —AFP BUSINESS SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 Wall Street slips on anxiety over longevity of Fed stimulus Durable goods orders rise more than expected

NEW YORK: US stocks fell for a third day long positions. of the approach moving forward, specif- yesterday amid lingering concern the US Since Wednesday, the markets have ically the time frame” of the unwinding central bank may scale back its support been focused on the possibility of Fed of the Fed’s stimulus efforts. The Dow to the economy. Trading has been chop- purchases being scaled back later this Jones industrial average fell 79.56 points py in the second half of the week as year, in the wake of recent congression- or 0.52 percent, to 15,214.94, the S&P market participants assess the Federal al testimony by Fed Chairman Ben 500 lost 11.95 points or 0.72 percent, to Reserve’s evolving stance towards mar- Bernanke and the minutes from the lat- 1,638.56 and the Nasdaq Composite kets. Fed support has been instrumental est Federal Open Market Committee dropped 25.28 points or 0.73 percent, to in a rally that has boosted US stocks to meeting. “Markets are looking for a reset 3,434.13. Major indexes were on track to post their first negative week in five. Futures briefly pared losses earlier after the Commerce Department said durable goods orders rose 3.3 percent last month, exceeding expectations for an increase of 1.5 percent. Prior readings for orders were revised to show a small- er decline in March than previously esti- mated. Procter & Gamble shares rose 3.9 per- cent to $81.77 after the world’s largest household products maker brought AG Lafley back AG Lafley as chief executive Thursday, replacing Bob McDonald in the midst of a major restructuring. P&G brings Abercrombie & Fitch shares dropped 11.2 percent to $48.28 after the teen clothing retailer said quarterly compara- back ex CEO ble sales fell 15 percent, which it blamed in part on inventory shortages. NEW YORK: Household products giant Procter & Gamble Co is hoping its for- NEW YORK: Trader David O’Day works on the floor of the New York Shares of Sears Holdings tumbled 18 mer CEO can work his magic once again. The Cincinnati company said late Stock Exchange at the close of trading. —AP percent to $47.66 after the US retailer Thursday that former CEO AG Lafley, a 33-year industry veteran, is returning reported a bigger-than-expected quar- its top post. The surprise move comes as the world’s largest consumer-prod- record highs this year. and a retracement lower, closer to more terly loss on Thursday, hurt by cooler ucts maker tries to spur growth in the face of stiff global competition. However, many analysts say the compelling valuations,” said Peter spring weather. Pandora Media shares Lafley, 65, replaces CEO Bob McDonald, effective immediately. McDonald, eventual tapering of Fed stimulus will Kenny, chief market strategist at Knight jumped 8.1 percent to $18.55 after the who will retire June 30 after a transition period, has served as CEO since 2009. come with an expansion in the econo- Capital in Jersey City, New Jersey. streaming music service said Thursday Lafley, who led P&G from 2000 to 2009, also is taking the president and chair- my and corporate earnings, which will He said on Wednesday there was a first-quarter revenue grew on the man titles. The 175-year-old company’s Tide detergent, Crest toothpaste and continue to support equities. Market shift that “reintroduced a sense of cau- strength of mobile advertising. At least other products can be found in 98 percent of American households. But it is pullbacks have been short and shallow tion that has long been absent” in mar- five research firms raised their price tar- struggling to grow. since November as traders take any kets. The minutes, Kenny said, showed a get on the stock, which earlier hit $19.36 In his first stint at the helm, Lafley helped right an ailing P&G, emphasizing weakness as an opportunity to increase degree of fracture in the FOMC “in terms -its highest since July 2011. —Reuters innovation and a “consumer-is-boss” focus. That included spending more time in personal observation and interviews with consumers. He also pulled off the blockbuster $57 million acquisition of the Gillette Co. in 2005, expand- ing P&G’s reach into male-oriented products with Gillette’s shavers and razors. “A.G.’s track record and his depth of experience at P&G make him 3i hopes to raise new uniquely qualified to lead the company forward at this important time,” said board director Jim McNerney. P&G is known for its premium products that cost more than competitors but are perceived by customers to be of higher quality. But growth for the company has slowed in developed markets like infrastructure funds North America and Europe. Like many of its rivals, P&G has been expanding into rapidly growing emerging markets such as Latin America, India and Russia. But there, it has LONDON: 3i Group PLC is to buy the business, moving away from just pri- government. faced tough competition from already entrenched smaller rivals such as European infrastructure fund manage- vate equity to balance this better with Barclays has been weighing up Dutch consumer-products maker Unilever and Colgate-Palmolive. In order to ment business of British bank Barclays its infrastructure and debt-manage- options for its future involvement in spur growth, P&G has been cutting costs and rolling out new products. The as part of a drive to boost its fee ment businesses. “This is in our view a BIFM for about a year since it became company is in the middle of a belt-tightening plan aimed at saving $10 billion income from public-private partner- transformational deal for the existing clear that new regulation on bank capi- by 2016. And it has introduced new products or brand expansions including ships and renewable energy projects. infrastructure business line. Not only tal reserves would render its risk- Tide Pods single-use laundry pellets, Downy Unstopables, a washer sheet that The private equity firm, aiming to does it improve its profitability, but it weighted returns less attractive than adds scent to clothes, and a stronger version of Secret deodorant called become one of Europe’s biggest will result in improved deal flow and before, one industry source, who Clinical Strength. But investors have been frustrated by the company’s slow revenue investors in the infrastructure sector, provide a platform for future fund rais- declined to be named, told Reuters. growth and stagnant market-share gains globally. The pressure stepped up said yesterday the deal would help it to ing opportunities,” JP Morgan analyst The bank is currently a limited partner last July, when activist investor William Ackman took a 1 percent stake. He raise new funds and source new invest- Christopher Brown said in a note. in the funds managed by BIFM and is has been vocal about the company’s need to streamline operations and ment opportunities for its 3i Barclays Infrastructure Funds keen to retain an interest in their per- improve results. “It sounds like the board needed a change at the top,” said Infrastructure business. Financial terms Management Limited (BIFM) has formance following the proposed sale Bernstein analyst Ali Dibadj. “We thought maybe there would be a little bit of the transaction were not disclosed. around 780 million pounds ($1.2 bil- to 3i, which has more cost-effective more of a test runway for current management, but clearly, frustration was With yields on staple investments like lion) of assets under management and access to capital for new buys, the very high.” P&G last year acknowledged that it had made missteps in some UK Gilts and German Bunds hovering is run by an investment team based in source said. emerging markets - which make up nearly 40 percent of its sales - when it around record lows, pension funds are London and Paris. Since its launch in Both 3i and Barclays declined to expanded in some product areas too quickly. And it introduced a plan to bankrolling more government-backed 1996, the business has invested 1.7 bil- comment on the financial terms of the focus on its 20 biggest new products and its 10 most-profitable emerging projects to build new roads, bridges lion pounds across six funds. The deal but the annual asset management markets, which has led to improving market share. The moves seemed to and public buildings in the hope these assets include hospitals, schools, water fees earned by BIFM are expected to be working. In P&G’s most recent January-to-March quarter, net income will deliver higher, inflation-protected treatment facilities, local government cover its operating costs, 3i said. At rose 6 percent to $2.57 billion, as revenue inched up 2 percent to $20.6 bil- returns. buildings and transport schemes, 1045 GMT, 3i shares were down 1.3 lion. But that fell slightly short of analysts’ expectations of $20.72 billion. It 3i has been undergoing a restruc- which typically generate inflation- percent at 357.9 pence, while Barclays’ had also begun to gain market share in North America. But fourth-quarter turing following shareholder frustra- linked cash flows based on 25-30 year were down 0.9 percent at 318.65 pence guidance was below expectations as the company spent more to market tion at weak results from its buyout operating concessions offered by the in a lower overall UK market. —Reuters new products. —AP the fallofUSSR. —AFP Kouklatchev, shortly before famous RussianclownYuri founded byhisfather, the MoscowCatTheatre, with adogduringshowin Kouklatchev performing This pictureshowsVladimir

research for AIDS million raises $25 amfAR Glitzy SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 www.kuwaittimes.net PAGE 28 Fast &TheFurious’ can learnfrom‘The Lessons Hollywood PAGE 26 SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

he pair were married from 2000 to 2005 was unhappy during his marriage to Jennifer, Tand although both have moved on - Brad 43, because of his drug use. He said: “For a long has six children with his fiancee Angelina time I thought I did too much damage - drug Jolie while Jennifer is engaged to Justin Theroux damage. I was a bit of a drifter. “A guy who felt - they are still close. Brad’s make-up artist Jean he grew up in something of a vacuum and Black told Esquire magazine: “I think Brad was wanted to see things, wanted to be inspired. I ready to soar when he met Angie. This is not to followed that other thing. “But then I got burnt say anything negative about Jennifer. I was part out and felt that I was wasting my opportunity. of that and I know that he and Jennifer are very “About a decade ago [I made a] a conscious good friends and he cared deeply for her “But in change... It was an epiphany - a decision not to Angie, he saw a very adventurous person who squander my opportunities. “It was a feeling of, was grabbing on to life and taking it to its nth ‘Get up.’ Because otherwise, what’s the point?” degree. It was intriguing because I felt Brad had that in him and wanted to unleash it.” While they are close now, Brad, 49, recently hinted he

he 75-year-old actor was meant to be promoting his Tnew movie ‘Now You See Me’ but his busy schedule has clearly taken its toll after he was spotted dozing off on air during a talk with US television show, FOX affili- ate Q13. The show hosts Kaci Aitchinson and Bill Wixey were firing questions at the ‘The Olympus Has Fallen’ star and actor, Sir Michael Caine about their current film when Morgan began to catnap on camera, but instead of wak- ing the movie star, they just continued to interview Michael, who was oblivious to the awkward situation. At one point, Morgan appeared to slump into a deep sleep before shaking himself awake, blinking a few times and attempting to follow the discussion. Speaking after the he JLS hunk and proud new dad - who wel- footage went viral, Morgan jokingly said: “I wasn’t actually he 33-year-old singer will open up about Tcomed his first child with The Saturdays sleeping. I’m a beta tester for Google Eyelids. I was merely his life in the Backstreet Boys, his struggles singer Rochelle Humes - was beaming with updating my Facebook page!” Bill and Kaci were quick to T pride as he shared a snap of him holding his with substance abuse and his family make a joke out of the stars’ brief sleep on air and took to tragedies, including the death of his sister Leslie newborn on Instagram. Marvin, 28, is seen smil- Twitter almost immediately to share the funny news with from a suspected overdose last year, in ‘Facing ing from ear-to-ear while looking down at little fans. Kaci tweeted: “Morgan Freeman just fell asleep to the Music and Living to Talk About It’. The tome Alaia in the photo, which is captioned: “Daddy’s the sound of our soothing voices.” will be published by Bird Street Books on Girl...?” The adorable picture also gives a glimpse September 24. Nick proposed to his girlfriend of into what appears to be the newborn’s nursery, four years Lauren Kitt, in the Florida Keys with a which features a dedication to each member of seven-carat diamond ring from XIV KARATS in the family emblazoned on the wall. The letters February and admitted he was desperate to pop ‘M’, ‘R’ and ‘A’ - representing Marvin, Rochelle the question. He said: “I was like, ‘I don’t want and Alaia respectfully - can be seen patterned [the ring] anymore!’ It was driving me insane. I diagonally in the background of the snap, with just wanted to get it out of my hands and on to the letter ‘M’ in blue and the other two letters in hers. “She said, ‘Yes,’ and I’m, like, ‘I don’t know pink. In her first public comments since giving what to do. She said, ‘You’re supposed to put it birth, Rochelle, 24, said she was “blessed” to wel- on my finger.’ So I did. I was in shock.” Fitness come “little angel” and revealed that Alaia has expert and actress Lauren, 29, admitted she was already developed a bond with her father. She shocked by the proposal and acknowledged wrote on Twitter: “Thanks so much for all of your wedding dates will have to be worked around lovely messages. I feel so so blessed. Alaia-Mai is the upcoming Backstreet Boys tour. She said: “I just a little angel. We’re all very happy. Thanks wasn’t expecting it. It just felt very surreal. We again. “Marvin is a great daddy. Absolutely in both are just so happy in love right now and on love with his princess. Definitely a daddy’s girl cloud nine. “Our first thought was, ‘We need to situation already started. So beautiful x. (sic)” contact the Backstreet Boys and find out when their schedule will permit. “It’s not up to us. It’s up to the schedule. We’re just excited and look- ing forward to the next chapter of our lives.” SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

he 31-year-old singer is currently in the midst of her T‘Mrs. Carter Show’ tour and her devoted husband - with whom she has 16-month-old daughter Blue Ivy - is planning a lavish bash to coincide with the French Riviera’s Formula One Grand Prix as a celebration of his wife’s hard work, inviting along various celebrity friends who are visiting to join in the fun. A source told the Daily Star newspaper: “Jay’s having a gold and black-themed do for celebrity pals such as Lewis Hamilton, Nicole Scherzinger, Gwyneth Paltrow and Naomi Campbell, who will be in town for the Grand Prix.” The ‘Grown Woman’ hit- maker is rumoured to be pregnant and was forced to can- cel her gig in Antwerp, Belgium, on May 14 but promised to reschedule the show for “disappointed” fans who missed out on seeing their idol live. In a handwritten letter posted on her Facebook the following day of the cancella- tion, Beyonce said: “To my dearest fans in Antwerp. I’ve never postponed a show in my life. It was very hard for me. I promise I will make it up very soon. I’m sorry if I disap- pointed you.”

he 31-year-old actress says her ‘Star Trek TInto Darkness’ director JJ Abrams was he reality TV star hopes when she and her husband, wives- they have girls too and they do the same thing. So I once told by an astronaut that he had TLA Clippers basketball star Lamar Odom, eventually don’t know, but I just think it would be SO CUTE [to have a come across extra terrestrials in space and JJ start a family they will have a son because she wants boy].” Khloe, 28, recently embarked on a strict fitness plan revealed all during a Skype chat with other a future ball player. She told Hollyscoop: “They always say in a bid to lose 25 pounds and get bikini ready in time for astronauts aboard the International Space you don’t care, and I really don’t know if I do care...But I summer and says she feels more positive after her health Station. She told chat show host Jimmy think it would be fun to have a boy because Lamar is a bas- kick. She explained: “I’ve been on a workout kick and even Kimmel: “JJ said he sat next to an astronaut ketball player. “[I want] to take him to the games and dress if it’s not necessarily to lose weight, I just think what it does once who had told him that he had seen ‘forms him and up and be like ‘oh, lets cheer.’ A lot of their players for my mind, it makes me feel like I’ve released so much or shapes’ that make him believe in alien life will like take their kids to practice with them on certain stress, and I do think that makes me then feel like I’m ready which you know is really scary. And exciting. days, they allow players to do that, to take on the world today. “I’ve been trying to have a “And so the response the NASA base gave us which I think is so good for the lifestyle change and just work out consistently and try to when JJ asked this question, ‘Have you seen team, so I would love for make that a way of my life.” alien life?’ was so rehearsed and so clear that my son to do that. they have seen [aliens].” Alice previously “But I guess girls could revealed she feels “incredibly lucky” to have do [basketball] landed a part in the ‘Star Trek’ sequel. She said: too.... I always see “I feel incredibly lucky. I would say it’s a once- basketball in-a-lifetime opportunity. It’s not once-in-a-life- players and their time, but it is rare. “It’s one of life’s great pleas- ures to enjoy the group you work with, because we all know what it’s like when you don’t.” — Bangshowbiz

he country singer pledged the generous sum to provide was devastating and the road to recovery Thelp for people affected by the brutal tornado which will be long for many families. “Through swept through her native state of Oklahoma earlier this the generosity of Carrie, the American week. She said: “I have watched the devastation in my home Red Cross can quickly respond with shel- state of Oklahoma over the past several days with great sadness. ter, food and comfort now and with last- “With the help of my fans who attended my concerts over the ing help as they move toward recovery.” past year, we can offer the Red Cross a little extra help in com- The cause has also been supported by US forting those affected by the recent tornados.” Former celebrities like actor David Spade, who ‘American Idol’ winner Carrie, 30, grew up on a farm in donated $200,000 to the hurricane relief Muskogee, Oklahoma, and was an active member of her local fund, and Oklahoma City Thunder basketball play- community growing up, so decided to donate all the proceeds er Kevin Durant, who also gave $1 million. from her recent tour to the charity. Neal Litvack, chief develop- ment officer for the Red Cross, praised Carrie’s involvement, say- ing: “The impact of the tornadoes in Oklahoma and the Midwest SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

The Opera House is lit up by a projection during Vivid Sydney, the annual festival of light, music and ideas, in Sydney yesterday. More than 60 interactive and immersive light sculptures and installations across Circular Quay, The Rocks, Walsh Bay, Darling Harbour and North Sydney took part in the festival. — AFP

ith two cars, foreign holidays and a cook iPhone alarm rings to signal that it is time for the Wfor their apartment, one Beijing family girl’s first lesson. epitomises the new middle class creat- She steers her Chevrolet Epica sedan past ed by China’s decades of rapid economic growth- forests of near-identical apartment blocks to the and its resulting worries. Li Na, 42, a caterer at the Haidian Youth Palace, a relic of Maoist-era China capital’s zoo, and her husband Chi Shubo, 48, which now holds classes aimed at boosting chil- who works for a state-owned investment compa- dren’s creativity. At weekends Nancy has sessions ny, have seen their fortunes transformed since in traditional Chinese calligraphy, and a bad- she arrived in Beijing 20 years ago from minton class “with a private coach”, Li said. In the Shandong, a coastal province. Then, she cycled past year, the young girl swapped learning the for hours from a shared dormitory to visit her piano for a new instrument, the ocarina, a pock- husband’s workplace. Now she commutes in a et-sized flute. Nancy has only three or four hours car made by an American firm and they holiday of free time a day on weekends, Li said, as she with their 11-year-old daughter in Japan, South seeks to hold her position in China’s highly com- Korea and the United States. petitive education system. Tens of millions of others have made a similar transition. About 10 percent of China’s 1.35 bil- What you know, and who you know lion people now count as middle class, according A glut of graduates created by the expansion to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation of China’s university system means the graduate and Development, a figure set to rise to 40 per- unemployment rate is higher than for the general cent by 2020. But their concerns about air pollu- population making winning a place at the very tion, food safety and China’s education system best colleges ever more crucial. Getting into a top show the challenges facing the country’s newly school is also not always about ability, Li said, appointed leaders, who have promised a shift with cash donations sometimes involved. away from the model of growth at all costs. “Sometimes parents need to do extra work, give Every year, Li and her husband set a goal to out red envelopes, and even then success can improve their lives. “We always have a plan,” Li depend on your contacts,” she said. said. “For example, this year I might want a new This year has bought some more worrying les- This photo shows cave paintings found in the San Carlos camera, and my husband will help make that sons. When thick smog blanketed northern mountain range in the Burgos municipality of the Tamaulipas come true.” The family’s four-bedroom apart- China, sending pollution levels soaring in the State, Mexico. —AFP ment in a Beijing suburb was the most important capital, Nancy learned about PM 2.5, the name purchase of their lives. “We struggled half our given to invisible pollutants which can damage rcheologists have found nearly 5,000 cave paintings made by lives to buy it,” Li said, over a breakfast of fried children’s lungs. She reached into the pocket of Ahunter-gatherers in a northeastern Mexico mountain range eggs and bacon. her mother’s car seat and pulled out a face mask. where pre-Hispanic groups were not known to have existed. In a picture of comfortable suburban living, “My mum made me wear this every day in The yellow, red, white and black paintings depict humans, deers, their daughter, who goes by the English name January and February because the PM 2.5 was lizards and centipedes, suggesting that the groups hunted, fished Nancy, sprawls on a vast sofa opposite a huge very bad,” she said.—AFP and gathered food, according to the National Anthropology and flat-screen Sony television, nuzzling the family’s History Institute (INAH). fluffy brown dog. Li says her top priority is They also painted religious, astronomical and abstract scenes and Nancy’s education. It is not a school day, but her most of the images are very well preserved. The archeologists were not able to date the 4,926 paintings, but they could conduct chemi- cal and radiocarbon analyses to try to determine how old they are. The ancient artwork was discovered in 11 different sites in the caves and mountain gaps of the municipality of Burgos in the state of Tamaulipas, which borders the United States. More than 1,550 images were painted in one location dubbed “The Cave of Horses.” “It’s important because with this we were able to document the presence of pre-Hispanic groups in Burgos, where before we said there were none,” said archeologist Martha Garcia Sanchez of the Autonomous University of Zacatecas. The paintings were made by at least three groups known as the Guajolotes, Iconoplos and Pintos. There is evidence that other groups moved around the San Carlos mountain range, such as the Cadimas, Conaynenes, Mediquillos, Mezquites, Cometunas and Canaimes. “These groups escaped Spanish control for almost 200 years,” Garcia Sanchez said. “They fled to the San Carlos mountain range where they had water, plants and animals to eat. The Spaniards didn’t go into the mountain and its val- leys.” — AFP

Two men play Chinese chess at a park in Beijing yesterday. — AFP SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

This photo shows Coast Guard Beach in Cape Cod, Mass.

his may be hard to believe in the aftermath of Superstorm Hawaii; Barefoot Beach Preserve County Park, Bonita Springs, Fla.; TSandy, but an annual list of the best beaches in the country Cape Florida State Park, Key Biscayne, Fla; Cape Hatteras, Outer has a New York beach ranked No. 1. Less surprisingly, that Banks, NC; Coast Guard Beach, Cape Cod, Mass.; and Beachwalker beach is in East Hampton, the vacation playground for the rich Park, Kiawah Island, SC. and famous. In an announcement that coincides annually with the East Hampton village residents have free access to Main Beach, unofficial start of summer, coastal expert Stephen P Leatherman although parking permits are required from May 15 to Sept 15. on Friday released the 23rd version of his Top 10 Beach List, plac- Non-residents can buy parking passes at $25 per day but they are ing Main Beach in East Hampton at the top. limited in number, with only 40 non-resident daily parking passes “The thing about the Hamptons is that people are so proud of sold on weekends and holidays. Max Scainetti, a lifelong East their beaches out there,” Leatherman told The Associated Press in Hampton resident, said the tiny grains of tan sand and the cleanli- an interview in advance of the release of his list. “People pick up ness of the beach are two of the things that make Main Beach spe- their litter there, the bathrooms are clean; they provide good serv- cial. “This is one of the best beaches in the country and I’ve been ices.” Leatherman, who goes by the nickname Dr. Beach, visited to a lot of beaches,” Scainetti said. “I think basically it’s a lot to do Main Beach earlier this month. He said that unlike many beaches with the sand. A lot of Long Island beaches tend to be rocky where farther to the west and in New Jersey, the beaches on eastern these are more sandy beaches.” Long Island saw less erosion and flooding from the effects of Javier Baldo, an East Hampton cook, said he has visited Main Superstorm Sandy. Beach regularly for about eight years. “It’s fairly civilized. It doesn’t “Considering the magnitude of the storm, people will be very get too crowded. The water is delicious,” he said. Delicious? “It’s pleased to see that Main Beach is the way they remember it,” he really great water, it’s really clean. You just have a lot of space.” said. Leatherman, a professor at Florida International University in Baldo said celebrities are sometimes seen at the beach, but people Miami, has visited beaches around the world and uses criteria like generally keep to themselves. “It’s quiet, there’s no loud music water and sand quality, as well as safety and environmental man- playing. It’s obviously very safe; great lifeguards. There are really agement, to compile his annual list. Once a beach reaches the pin- great lifeguards. They’re actually fit and very well experienced. nacle of No. 1, it is retired from future consideration, he said. That’s a big thing, just the safety,” he said. — AP Coopers Beach in nearby Southampton, NY, was the No. 1 pick in the 2010 survey. Sarasota, Fla.’s Siesta Beach was tops in 2011 and Coronado Beach in California earned the top spot in 2012. The other nine on Leatherman’s 2013 list after Main Beach are: Kahanamoku Beach, Waikiki, Hawaii; St. George Island State Park, In this image, a woman relaxes on Waimanalo Bay Fla; Hamoa Beach, Maui, Hawaii; Waimanalo Bay State Park, Oahu, Beach Park in Oahu, Hawaii.

This undated file photo shows Hamoa Beach in Maui, Hawaii. — AP photos This file photo shows Duke Kahanamoku Beach in Waikiki, Hawaii. SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

Kid Rock, Rolling Stones on scalping, summer tours id Rock is a scalper. The 42-year-old Pollstar reported that the average price of a tick- nate the chance of scalping the tickets, which “You can look at it like, ‘Well, no one’s mak- KGrammy winner, who is launching a et among the tour’s seven shows was $355.14. were just $20. But Mick Jagger said there isn’t ing any money except these secondary ticket summer tour where most tickets are “I’d do some free shows. I’d work my butt off much the artists can do about scalping and sec- selling companies and they’re making more priced at $20, said he’s scalping about 1,000 and I don’t care how much. But these are set up ondary sources for tickets. “The artist is totally money than anyone,’” Jagger continued. “It’s tickets from each show to make up for the above my head, man,” Richards said in a recent powerless in this. People have made a lot of fuss completely legal so until it’s illegal, there’s noth- cheaper regular price. “I’m in the scalping busi- interview. “You’re kind of locked in a thing here about it before, but on the other side, some ing much anyone can do about that.” ness, but you know what? We told everyone. A lot of artists have been doing this for years behind fans’ backs, taking all these backdoor deals,” he said. “We look at StubHub and other places and see what they’re selling them for and we just undercut them.” Kid Rock’s “$20 Best Night Ever Tour” kicks off June 28 in Bristow, Va, and the Detroit native, who released his debut album in 1990, said he likely scalped secretly on past tours. “I’m sure we have,” he said. “I can’t say for sure, but I’m not going to say that we haven’t. I wouldn’t be surprised if we did.” Kid Rock’s discount tick- et pricing is leading a change in tours where scalpers play a major role as the marketplace for secondary sources for tickets continues to grow, especially in a summer when key acts like The Rolling Stones, Beyonce, Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney —AP photos Justin Timberlake Kid Rock Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z are on the road. whether you like it or not. I wish it was five people are like, ‘We might as well participate in Ticketmaster’s North American President Jared “If I see a scalper, I’ll scalp him,” the Rolling bucks a ticket.” it.’ And you can’t really blame the artist for par- Smith said Kid Rock’s deal, which he completed Stones’ Keith Richards said, laughing. He said he The Rolling Stones did play a secret show at ticipating in it because why shouldn’t they in a with Ticketmaster partner Live Nation, is a first would like to play free shows to balance the the Echoplex club in Los Angeles last month, way?” he said. “I know we don’t participate in it, of more to come, though they might not be as high cost for tickets; The Rolling Stones’ “50 & where fans got in by winning a lottery and had but nevertheless, I don’t blame people if they risky as Kid Rock’s plan, which also includes $20 Counting Tour” has a range of ticket prices, and to be ID’d and given photo bracelets to elimi- wanted to do it.” T-shirts. —AP

Lessons Hollywood can learn from ‘The Fast & The Furious’

ast & the Furious 6” is widely expected to domi- on any big-budget confection. It’s an essential ingredient a study by the Motion Picture Association of America. In ing point of the film and “trumps” the fight between “Fnate the Memorial Day box office and potential- to making the sprawling community of moviegoers feel the case of “Fast Five,” catering to this crowd resulted in a Diesel and Dwayne Johnson that was a heavily promoted ly become the highest grossing film in the lucra- like they are watching their dreams and lives reflected monster turnout, with Latinos representing 33 percent of part of “Fast Five.” tive franchise’s history. For a franchise to keep growing as back to them on the big screen. its opening weekend U.S. audience. it enters its second decade and sixth installment is nearly The reward for this cosmopolitanism? “Fast & Furious Don’t idle at the starting line unheard of in Hollywood, where sequels tend to burn hot 6” is off to a white-hot start at the foreign box office; its ...Oh, and so do women Beginning with the fourth film in the series, 2009’s and fast, dying out quickly. Yet Universal Pictures has opening in the UK and Ireland last Friday gave Universal Casting women as more than scantily clad helpmates “The Fast & the Furious,” Universal has rigidly adhered to a adroitly managed the car racing series by tapping into the studio’s biggest opening day ever in that market with and arm candy has further broadened “The Fast & The release schedule of one “Fast” picture every two years. The international markets, catering to under-appreciated $4.6 million. “Fast Five,” the previous film in the franchise, Furious” franchise’s appeal. Women represent 51 percent studio is accelerating the schedule with “Fast & the movie-going audiences and recognizing the power of more than doubled the largest foreign gross in the fran- of the USpopulation and 52 percent of the movie-going Furious 7,” which will roar into theaters in 2014, roughly a Diesel fuel - Vin Diesel that is. Here are six takeaways from year after the sixth film was unleashed on the summer box the “Fast & the Furious” franchise’s success for rival studios office. trying to engineer their own box office Maserati’s. At CinemaCon, the annual exhibition trade show in Las Vegas, Diesel told theater owners that the studio was Vin Diesel is an A-Lister, get used to it able to rush into production on a follow-up to “Fast & the He may not wield the clout or boast the magazine Furious 6” because they had carefully mapped out a direc- covers of a Depp or a Pitt or a Smith, but make no mistake, tion for the series. In a digitally connected age where plat- Diesel is a star. After getting lost on the C-list in the mid- forms like Twitter and Facebook have intensified the rate aughts and seeing his once white-hot career fizzle out at which entertainment and media is anticipated, con- with bombs like “Find Me Guilty” or artistic embarrass- sumed and discussed, it is critical that studios move nim- ments like “The Pacifier,” Diesel cannily returned to the bly to exploit buzz before this morning’s hot thing franchise that made him a powerhouse with 2009’s “Fast become that afternoon’s tired idea. & Furious.” In the process, he helped the series consistent- ly build its audience with each new film, allowing the fran- Allow a director to grow with a franchise chise to gross nearly $1.6 billion globally. With this Justin Lin didn’t have the kind of CV that would September’s “Riddick,” Diesel will see if he can revive instantly make a studio feel comfortable about handing another of his action franchises that has run out of steam. over the keys to one of its crown jewel franchises. When If he can pull it off, that will give him two massive tentpole Universal tapped the UCLA grad to inject new life into the roles in his quiver. Few actors other than Robert Downey “Fast” series, Lin was best known for the Sundance break- Jr with “Sherlock Holmes” and “Iron Man” can match that out “Better Luck Tomorrow” and the James Franco bomb kind of track record. “Annapolis.” But whatever studio executives saw Taiwanese-born director has allowed the series to reach The US is nice, but foreign countries are king new heights. Under Lin, the four “Fast” films he has direct- Though “The Fast & The Furious” started out as a chise’s history and most box office analysts predict the lat- public, but according to a 2012 study by the Center for the ed have grown more global in scope, more financially suc- depiction of LA street racing, few franchises have done a est adventure will eclipse the last film’s $416 million inter- Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State cessful, more technically audacious and more critically better job of embracing the global marketplace. Starting national take. University, only 11 percent of the protagonists in top acclaimed. The decision to move up production on “Fast & with 2006’s “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift,” the grossing films are female. the Furious 7,” so it can open next year, means that he will third film in the franchise, the series has traipsed around Newsflash! Latinos go to movies Yes, Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are the top-billed stars have to yield the director’s chair to James Wan (“Saw”), but the globe, conveniently stopping in many of the movie Latino audiences have pushed “The Fast & The in the series, but what’s refreshing about “Fast & Furious 6” studio executives and producers tell TheWrap that after business’ most important emerging markets. Along the Furious” series into rarified blockbuster terrain. Thanks to is that Rodriguez and co-star Gina Carano have roles that the success of the “Fast” movies, Lin can write his own way, the crew of car racers and thieves have evaded the stars like Michelle Rodriguez, and a healthy amount of are integral to the action. In fact, Jeffrey Kirschenbaum, ticket. “He’s on the A-list,” a rival studio executive law in exotic settings like Brazil, Mexico and, in the latest Spanish dialog, the films have gone out of their way to Universal Pictures co-president of production, told enthused. “If he wants to do a Bond film, he can. If he iteration, Spain and the United Kingdom. court this too often neglected demographic. Pay heed TheWrap that the most recent “Fast” film is the highest wants to do a Chris Nolan-type ‘Inception’ movie or a With 70 percent of box office revenue coming from studios! Latinos represent just 17 percent of the US popu- testing among women. He added that the on-screen smaller personal movie, he can. Everyone wants to work abroad, an international flavor is no an longer exotic icing lation, yet account for 26 percent of ticket sales, according throw down between Rodriguez and Carano is a key sell- with him.” —Reuters SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

Trip into space with DiCaprio costs $1.55m

eonardo DiCaprio is going to get by Zinedine Zidane (380,000 euros). Lcloser to stars of a different kind DiCaprio, Nicole Kidman, Janet as he heads into space aboard the Jackson, Jessica Chastain, Kylie Virgin Galactic, and a well-heeled bid- Minogue, Audrey Tautou, Hollywood der at the Cannes Film Festival has paid mogul Harvey Weinstein, Kristin Scott 1.2 million euros (1.5 million) to be his Thomas and Paris Hilton were among travel buddy. The Holywood star’s sub- the 900 people who attended the char- orbital trip was among 20 goodies up ity dinner event at Antibes’ Eden Roc for grabs at the 20th amfAR bash, a hotel. A table for 10 cost 120,000 euros, gala auction that is one of the glitziest and an individual seat nearly 3,000 festival events and that this year euros. helped raise a record-breaking $25 mil- Entertainment was provided by lion for AIDS research. Duran Duran, who played their classic Other big-ticket items were a role as “Girls on Film,” Shirley Bassey, who an extra in four Hollywood movies, sang the signature Bond song including a feature starring DiCaprio “Goldfinger,” and American Music (1.5 million euros); two VIP seats for the Awards winner Hot Chelle Rae per- 2014 Oscars awards (140,000 euros); a formed their smash “Tonight, Tonight.” private acoustic concert for 45 people This year’s auction raked in more than by Simon Le Bon and John Taylor of twice the amount collected in 2012. Duran Duran (400,000 euros); and a Since 1993, the gala has raised 87 mil- This image shows Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan (right) and Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay game of six-a-side against a team led lion euros. —AFP Gatsby in a scene from “The Great Gatsby.” —AP

Iranian filmmaker At the movies, violence is the new high makes it to ex may be a turn-off for Hollywood audiences but violence is all sometimes filmmakers use violence as a way of showing off and attract- Sover the big screen, as filmmakers seek to capture the youth mar- ing a kind of notoriety because that’s the fastest way of getting written ket, industry figures at the Cannes film festival said yesterday. With about,” he said. Cannes amid secrecy online porn readily available, sex scenes are no longer prized by produc- In other cases, he added, it was just “there for the lack of a better ers who look to action sequences or special effects to fill the gap. idea”. French-born Australian filmmaker Chantal Denoux urged directors ranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, jailed in 2010 for anti-regime propa- “The Paperboy” in which Nicole Kidman played a woman attracted to to remember the power of what was not shown. “It is a bit like sex. ganda, told the Cannes Film Festival yesterday he knew his latest picture Death Row prisoners and the sex surrogate film “The Sessions” with Sometimes it is completely important to see the violence, however I Helen Hunt are examples of recent films with sex that flopped at the box sometimes now you have the feeling it is gratuitous,” she said “Hitchcock would also come under fire in his own country. Rasoulof reportedly filmed his censorship drama “Manuscripts Don’t Burn” secretly in Iran following a office. Michael Lavey, of the Los Angeles-based sales agents Taylor & never shows anything but we are terrified. If the shower scene (in ban, and the circumstances of his visit to Cannes and where he now lives Dodge, told AFP the need to pull in younger audiences was driving an “Psycho”) was made today we would see blood everywhere. I think the remain strictly confidential. Rasoulof’s wife in 2011 accepted his best director explosion of violence on our screens. “I think that young kids are just imagination is more important,” she added. —AFP award in the new talent section, Un Certain Regard, for his film “Goodbye” immune to violence. It’s video games, it’s almost (as if) you’ve got to have about a young Tehran lawyer trying to get a visa to leave Iran. At the time, he some violence for them to go (to the cinema),” he said. was unable to travel as he was on bail in Iran pending an appeal against a six- “Directors could be more restrained (in their use of with violence) but year jail sentence. Rasoulof was arrested with fellow director Jafar Panahi the smart ones are going to do what people like me say works. If they’re after they tried to make a documentary on the unrest that followed the dis- open to that feedback they’re going to make money,” he added. A num- puted 2009 re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Rasoulof was ber films screened at Cannes over the past 10 days-including China’s “A jailed in 2010 for six years for acting against national security and propagan- Touch of Sin” (Tian Zhu Ding) and Japan’s “Shield of Straw” (Wara No da against the regime and banned from making films for 20 years. The sen- Tate) — have shocked audiences with their levels of violence. tence was reduced to one year on appeal. Mexican director Amat Escalante was forced on the defensive after This year Rasoulof was able to appear in person to introduce his new film his ultra-violent film “Heli” left many critics feeling queasy. Nicolas although he said the occasion was Winding Refn’s “Only God Forgives” was equally blood-spattered with tinged with sadness because of the one critic describing it as a “sickening pornography of violence”. Many at friends who could not be there with a press screening found the Bangkok-set revenge drama starring the him. “I’m a little sad because there bankable Ryan Gosling almost unwatchable. are a lot of people who cannot be And even co-star Kristin Scott Thomas described it as “hyper violent here. It is because of the Iranian situ- and quite disturbing” adding “this kind of film is really not my thing”. ation they couldn’t come,” he told Edmee Cuttat, film critic for the Geneva Tribune daily, who has covered the audience before a screening of the festival for two decades, said she had witnessed an increase not in his film in the same section. Rasoulof the level of violence but in the level of “gratuitous violence”. said he fully expected criticism of She described “Heli” as “appalling” and said she was unable to watch the film because Iranian journalists “Only God Forgives” in which a man in one scene is pinned to an arm- at the festival might feel they had to chair with knives and then stabbed in the eye. “What I don’t like is gratu- write articles about it that would not itous violence. I don’t find it useful but perhaps the directors think it cor- Mohammad Rasoulof anger the regime. “I don’t care and I responds with the era,” she said. excuse them,” he said. Iran has in Gratuitous violence would appear to have replaced gratuitous sex as the past accused festival organisers of being political for screening movies by a marketing tool. Sex scenes were once written into scripts “no matter Iranians who backed the Islamic republic’s opposition movement, including what the plot”, Vincent Bruzzese, president of the film division of market Panahi. The secrecy surrounding Rasoulof’s appearance follows another research company Ispos, was quoted as saying earlier this year by high-profile case in 2011 when actress Marzieh Vafamehr was sentenced to a Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper. year in jail and 90 lashes for her role in a film about the limits imposed on But now producers tended to ask “do we really need the sex? Can we artists in Iran. The actress was arrested after appearing in “My Tehran for fill the space with special effects instead and keep the family-friendly rat- Sale,” which came under harsh criticism in conservative circles. The film, an ing?”, he added. Indian director Dibakar Banerjee said he preferred films Australian co-production, told the story of a young actress in Tehran whose that used only violence essential to character and plot such as Martin theatre work was banned by the authorities, forcing her to lead a secret life in Scorsese’s “Raging Bull”. order to express herself artistically. —AFP “That film is about a violent man who deals with everything in his life through one answer, one response. That violence is necessary. “(But) Actress Marion Cotillard poses for photographers. SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

US actress Sharon Stone speaks on stage, surrounded by models during the amfAR’s 20th US actress Sharon Stone (left) conducts the auction of a painting. Annual Cinema Against AIDS during the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d’Antibes, southern France. — AP/AFP photos

ith an apt rendition of “Goldfinger,” singing legend Shirley For the second time in amfAR’s history, the event’s penchant for WBassey roused celebrity revelers to dig deep into their excess translated rather well into a glimmering catwalk show, curat- pockets at the 20th amfAR gala in the Cap D’Antibes, help- ed by stylist Carine Roitfeld. It featured some 38 gold and black ing to raise an estimated $25 million for AIDS research. The British- looks from designers such as Dior, Chanel, Lanvin and Prada worn born singer was one of several performers including Duran Duran by models such as Karlie Kloss, Karolina Kurkova, Angela Lindvall who sang at the gold-themed auction event near the Cannes Film and Alessandra Ambrosio. Festival, hosted by actress Sharon Stone. The standout dresses were a custom gold embroidered long- The annual gala has for two decades attracted the film and fash- sleeved gown courtesy of Valentino, and a custom gold pleated ion industries’ rich and powerful. This year was no exception, with minidress from Givenchy. All the dresses went to a single bidder, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jessica selling in just a couple of minutes for $1.56 million. Chastain, Janet Jackson, Milla Jovovich and Goldie Hawn sitting side Though celebrities were in a generous mood, news that thieves by side. Items auctioned included an Andy Warhol lithograph of outsmarted 80 security guards and made off with a necklace that Elizabeth Taylor, a chance to have a family portrait taken by photog- creators say is worth 2 million euros ($2.6 million) - the second rapher Annie Leibovitz, a week in fashion designer’s Donna Karan’s such jewelry heist during this year’s Cannes - had celebrities cling- Caribbean hideaway and a shimmering 53-carat diamond necklace. ing more closely to their jewels. “Well yeah, I’m going to be watch- amfAR says AIDS still affects some 34 million people worldwide. ing how much champagne I drink,” said Jovovich, smiling. “Yes, you can think it’s a silly little dinner, you can deride it as full “Because you never know somebody might come up and just of celebrities dressed up,” said Leibovitz. “But that’s missing the shwoop, take it off.” — AP point. 80 million dollars amfAR has raised since it began. That’s the point. It has saved lives.” Weinstein took the mike several times to praise the film industry’s commitment to AIDS, stressing that while two decades ago the illness was a “looming plague,” a cure might US actress Sharon Stone (left) tries a necklace on US bur- well be seen within “our lifetime.” lesque dancer Dita Von Teese as they stand on stage.

US heiress and model Paris Hilton (left) amfAR Chairman Kenneth Cole (left) US model and actress Olivia Palermo Puerto Rican model Joan Italian model Bianca Balti and her partner River Viiperi pose. and his wife Catie pose. (right) and her partner US model Smalls poses. poses. Johannes Huebl pose. SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

he neon brights that peppered the 1980s are a set of dinosaur-topped jars are part of the collec- Tback, in fashion and dÈcor. Highlighter hues tion. Jones says, “I want to make color accessible to and glow-in-the-dark tints provide a shot of everyone. Painting a wall a bright color might not adrenaline after a few seasons of mellow, mush- be realistic, but people can still bring in that fun, room-y color palettes. Of course, these colors aren’t bright pop of the unexpected through home acces- for everyone. But if you’re ready to play, here are sories. I hope my work inspires people to take some fun options and expert advice on how to go chances and not take decorating too seriously.” sassy but stylish. Los Angeles-based designer Byron Samayoa’s Tanika Nayak, an interior designer and shelter- laser-cut coasters embossed with elemental infor- show host on HGTV and the Food Network, loves mation were not initially intended to be neon bright hues. She says the key is to make them look acrylic. “The coasters found their way to neon via up-to-the-minute and not circa 1983. “Use neon in the creative process - my original Idea was to start small doses,” she advises. “You don’t want to blind with a wood set and a clear acrylic set, but every anyone. My favorite use of neon is against a crisp time I went back to my samples, the neon ones white backdrop. In a dining room, start with a glass always stood out from the rest.” table, white walls and pop it with bold colorful neon Canadian textile artist Christine Skaley Reid dinnerware, placemats, and vases - affordable and works out of her studio in Mission, British Columbia, fun! If you dare to go even bolder, use neon print creating eclectic throw pillows in color-banded and accent chairs.” right-on-trend ‘70s-style floral prints. Fuchsia and Nayak says balance is everything when working pink set the trendy tone. with these powerhouse hues. “If you At Z Gallerie, find several great pieces in a zingy have a big, colorful personali- chrome yellow, including Mariposa candleholders, ty and really want that bed- the Palmer ceramic stool and Pasadena picture room or bathroom to glow, frames. then go ahead and paint Zazzle.com has a great group of photographic the entire room with your rose prints called the Neon Collection, tinted in sap- bold color. But balance it phire, lime and purple. with white, black, gray or And if you’re up for outfitting your home office even a pastel. For exam- in some pumped-up hues, consider CB2’s Go-cart ple, a bedroom painted in furniture series, which includes a rolling cart, book- bold green neon can case, task lamp and desk in vibrant yellow or orange work if the bedding, rug powder-coated steel. The Eclipse pillow features and window treatments kaleidoscopic mod petals, and the Ska pillow has a offset it with a calming pattern of persimmon-on-white abstract figures a la white and/or a pale soft Keith Haring. —AP blue,” she suggests. Take the same tack with a bathroom; add light-colored towels and mat to cool things down. HomeGoods has some well- priced accessories, like bright orange and green ottomans, a ceramic lamp in cit- rus, a large selection of colorful kitchen tools and mirrored deco- rative boxes. Brooke Jones offers an array of tangerine-hued home accessories at her online shop. A little elephant and TECHNOLOGY SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

Search for China’s missing kids goes online

BEIJING: It took dozens of volunteers half a year of her boy Yang Weixin online, arrange with other par- 20,000 people have posted photos of red-cheeked searching old Chinese maps and villages, but finally the ents to look for their children together, and form an babies and wide-eyed toddlers along with written online-organized group helped Luo Gang find where informal support group. “A lot of online friends talk to descriptions on Baby Come Home-though much of it is he was kidnapped 23 years ago-and his birth family. us and comfort us,” she said. “They encourage us not to hopelessly outdated. The search for China’s missing children-mainly boys give up, to keep living our lives and not to fall apart, so One family in the southwestern metropolis of abducted by traffickers to feed a traditional hunger for the child will still have a come to come home to.” Chongqing looking for their girl who went missing 23 sons exacerbated by the one-child policy-is moving Reliable estimates of the numbers of kidnapped chil- years earlier offered glimpses of a child who no longer into cyberspace as desperate families turn to websites dren in China are difficult to come by, but the Xinhua existed: “Short hair, big eyes, cross-eyed, a little chub- and social media. state news agency said in December that since 2009 by.” “She might not remember her family members’ Taken aged five from Sichuan province in the south- authorities had freed 54,000 minors and broken up names, but she might remember her favorite sister’s west to Fujian on the east coast in 1990, Luo shared 11,000 trafficking rings. name Li Zhenggui. She might remember that her mum detailed childhood memories with the website Baby In its latest annual human rights review, the US was a little deaf,” they offered. Grown children have Come Home and a far-flung crowdsourcing venture State Department cited media reports as saying that as also uploaded pictures of themselves in search of fami- followed, culminating in a reunion. “Luo Gang looked many as 20,000 Chinese children were kidnapped each lies they had left behind as infants-including one man, at the satellite map that (a volunteer) had circulated year for illegal adoption, many within the country. Du Fusheng, who went missing at nine months old and online... and soon discovered that an area near Yaojia Domestic media have reported others being forced to now well into his 50s. village looked very similar to his home,” said an beg on the streets or work as prostitutes. In a separate But for some children, such as Luo, the long years account of the search on the site. review last year, Washington said China “does not fully of hope paid off. He searched his earliest memories “Let us wish him a healthy and happy life going for- comply with the minimum standards” to eliminate traf- and shared with Baby Come Home volunteers details ward!” Success stories such as Luo’s remain the excep- ficking, nor did it “demonstrate evidence of increasing such as a bridge, a river and a newly repaved road tion, but Chinese who say they receive little help from efforts”. Instead parents are using social media to har- where he was kidnapped. The group hunted down authorities see few other options. “It’s better than noth- ness the potential of China’s online population, the matching details from other sources, including lists of ing, better than not having just a little help,” says Hong largest in the world at more than 560 million. roads resurfaced around that time. They scouted out Peiping, a 35-year-old factory worker in the southeast- The Internet remains heavily censored in China, but potential villages and cross-referenced with those ern province of Fujian, whose son went missing in 2009 still enables people to more easily organize, share infor- that had reported missing children, and after hitting at the age of six. Like other parents, she says the police mation and air their opinions. One well-known website several dead ends, finally found his family. “Thanks to made little effort to find her son and instead “just took for finding children-an account on the Twitter-like serv- the volunteers who helped Luo Yang find his way his physical description and what clothes he was wear- ice Sina Weibo of Yu Jianrong, a scholar known for home,” said the account on Baby Come Home. “And ing, and let us go find him ourselves”. highlighting social problems-has gained 220,000 fol- thanks to all those online friends whose names we Hong’s brother gave her a computer to post details lowers since being set up two years ago. More than don’t know.” —AFP

Science, tech should 57% of companies fail to control applications reduce disaster risk used by employees

GENEVA: Experts in disaster risk reduction yesterday ling the problem head-on by investing in preven- DUBAI: Restricting the launch of vented more than 3 billion local said that science and technology should be applied tion, and building local-level resilience with commu- third-party applications enhances the infection attempts. Moreover, giving more effectively to disaster management policy and nity mapping and simulations. “Science can be use- security of corporate workstations employees total freedom to connect practice. Their discussions, organized by the United ful, usable, and used in disaster risk reduction,” said and increases employee efficiency. any external device to the corporate Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Takashi Onishi, President of the Japanese Science However, 57 percent of companies network increases the probability of Scientific and Technical Advisory Group, were part of Council. He explained that different areas of the do not use any specific tools for appli- data leakage. the fourth session of the Global Platform for Disaster country were affected differently by natural hazards, cation control, according to a survey ENDPOINT CONTROLS Risk Reduction, which is meeting here this week to depending on their levels of vulnerability and expo- conducted by Kaspersky Lab in col- build consensus ahead of a 2015 world conference. sure. Simulations, early warning systems and sea- laboration with B2B International in The use of endpoint control scan Despite advances in the natural and social sciences, walls were in place, but more efforts were needed to November, 2012. be highly beneficial to any business. Cybercriminals have plenty of Application control provides addi- natural hazards have continued to increase, the make the scientific applications a real part of daily tricks up their sleeves for infecting a tional protection from malware and experts said. life. system. Passing malware off as a restricts the use of leisure applica- “The number of lives lost in disasters has tripled in Virginia Murray of the United Kingdom Public popular application, for example-so tions such as games or torrent the past 30 years, but science can act as a bridge Health Office, observing that climate change was that when an employee tries to run clients. Control over portable exter- between the private sector, Governments, the media contributing to the severity and frequency of disas- the application, the whole infrastruc- nal devices prohibits unauthorized and society as a whole in the search for solutions”, ters, suggested how effective planning such as air ture is compromised. To prevent connections, lowers the probability said the experts in the meeting. “Risks and opportu- conditioning and food stocks could help mitigate such incidents, companies need to of data leakage and helps prevent nities are the same. And there is no development the impact of such increasing phenomena as heat develop and enforce security policies workstation infection through inap- without risks,” said Walter J Amman, CEO of the waves and drought, particularly on the most vulner- specifically addressing the installa- propriate devices. Finally, web con- Global Risk Forum Davos, Switzerland. Disaster risk able. tion and launch of applications; but trol allows either a total ban on, or reduction meant disaster management dealing not Tailor-made approaches were needed to manage not all are doing so. According to the time limitations on visiting, certain only with actual risks but also with preventing disaster risk now and improve risk reduction in the survey, the majority of companies websites. This may stop employees potential ones. future, when hazard forecasting would become have no means of controlling appli- wasting time on sites which are not A paradigm shift called for moving from a risk- even more important. Other speakers this afternoon cations and 17 percent of companies work related, and can also add extra based to a proactive approach, in which science had said that technology was often underestimated in have no interest in using new appli- protection against malware and valuable insights to provide. Greater priority should disaster risk reduction and suggested that a technol- cation control technologies or even fraudulent websites. be given to sharing and disseminating scientific ogy transfer mechanism could help policymakers. aren’t aware of them. The Kaspersky Endpoint Security information and finding ways to mainstream science Social media, networking and texting could also be It’s a similar story when it comes for Business platform incorporates all into policies, regulations and implementation plans useful. to connecting external devices and three control technologies into the for reducing disaster risk, the experts stressed. The experts concluded that there should be a reg- data carriers: only 44 percent of com- Endpoint Controls feature. This Science should also play a greater role in education ular and strengthened dialogue between scientific panies pay enough attention to this enables businesses to tackle all the and media campaigns, not in a top-down fashion communities and political leaders; that more use issue and deploy device control issues described above, offering but through dialogue and community outreach. should be made of science and technology to inform tools, while 17 percent of companies many important benefits. The con- Experts presented case studies on how science could policy and enable action; and that science should be aren’t aware of device control tools trols are easy to configure and are be used for disaster risk reduction based on assess- better integrated into the post-2015 framework for or have no interest in using them. centrally managed, allowing admin- ment data, best practices and management and reducing disaster risk. That framework was one of Meanwhile, malware distributed istrators to create and apply flexible monitoring models. the main topics of discussion at the week’s meeting, through USB carriers represents a security policies simultaneously continuous threat: in 2012 alone, across any number of corporate end- In Indonesia, for example, where tsunamis were which was helping to lay the groundwork for a 2015 Kaspersky Lab security solutions pre- points. the most frequent hazard, the Government was tack- world conference on disaster risk reduction. —KUNA technology SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 VideoCare brings video conferencing to seniors

CALIFORNIA: Redwood City, Calif, resi- touch. We have users in Alzheimer’s ter.”As people age, their world often dent Kelly Ilnicki is very close to her 89- wards who can use our system.” becomes smaller. They move from year-old grandmother, who until VideoCare launched in November. houses to small apartments, which recently lived alone in her home in Trescot is the former CEO of Rhozet, a often make them feel more secure. Oceanside, near San Diego. Three or video compression company that was They give up driving. Their social worlds four times a day, Ilnicki talks to her sold to Harmonic. VideoCare, which has shrink as friends pass away. Many suffer grandmother via VideoCare, a video just six employees, recently raised $1.25 from isolation, particularly if family conferencing system for seniors and million in venture funding from members live far away. “Senior living their extended families and caregivers Aphelion Capital and California has been looking for this type of assis- that was developed by a Menlo Park, Technology Ventures. The system is tance for a number of years,” said Calif.-based startup of the same name. marketed to seniors who either “age in Mattingly. “It’s the new telephone in “In February, we were talking on place” in their own homes or live in some sense.”The US market for VideoCare and Grandma was sitting on assisted living facilities. The company “advanced remote patient monitoring,” the couch. I watched her fall over and, has not yet sold any units, but is part- which includes not just videoconfer- to be honest, I thought she’d had a nering with elder-care agencies to get encing but also the ability to remotely mini-stroke,” said Ilnicki. “I was able to feedback on how well the system monitor patient care and link to elec- yell at her. We called the paramedics in works. Eventually, the hope is to sell the tronic medical records, grew from $8.9 Oceanside and they came to her house. service with a monthly subscription fee, billion in 2011 to $10.6 billion in 2012, I could hear the paramedics beating on much like a cable TV bill. according to a March report by the door.” When the paramedics Among the early adopters of Kalorama Information. The report arrived, Ilnicki was able to explain via VideoCare are 10 of the 107 seniors found that the aging of the population, LOS ANGELES: Brian Knapp demonstrates use of a VideoCare what had happened, as well who live at Vintage Silver Creek, an increasing health care costs, dwindling personal monitoring system from BioControl as discuss what medication her grand- independent and assisted living facility health care resources, advancing tech- Systems. — MCT mother was on. in San Jose, Calif., who are currently nologies and the proven cost effective- “The paramedics were thrilled,” said getting the service free of charge under ness of patient monitoring all fuel the Neurotech industry puts Ilnicki. “VideoCare has been the most a pilot program. “The people who are in market’s growth. VideoCare sees enor- amazing thing for our family. To be able senior housing now are not really tech mous potential for elder care facilities its mind to video games to see each other versus just having a savvy,” said Steve Mattingly, executive themselves to use the technology. phone call makes a huge difference.” director of Vintage Senior, the facility’s “Some of our facilities use the LOS ANGELES: Fly toy helicopters with your mind. Be VideoCare’s premise is a simple one. parent corporation, which oversees 31 VideoCare system to remind seniors a DJ and shift musical tracks based on how you feel. Today’s 80- and 90-year-olds retired facilities. “The beauty of this program is that there’s an ice cream social, or to Wiggle robotic cat ears by increasing your state of from the workforce before the Internet there is no keyboard involved. Seniors ask if they want fish or chicken for din- calm. Astonishing advances in the ability to harness and smartphones were a staple of daily and keyboards is an automatic disas- ner,” said Trescot. —MCT brain waves have made the fantastic notion of moving living, and they are the generation least and controlling objects with the mind possible. Now able to navigate the onslaught of new neuroscientists are grappling with another challenge: technology. “If you are a middle-aged Find a “killer app” that will demonstrate the true person, the biggest problem you have potential of tapping into brain waves and ignite the is worrying about your parents,” said neurotechnology revolution. Dave Trescot, 48, the co-founder and CEO of VideoCare. “My parents live in TRY VIDEO GAMES Florida, and their biggest problem isn’t In the past decade, video games have helped push using a computer. It’s setting up the cutting-edge technologies such as sensor-based com- computer.” VideoCare’s technology puting - Nintendo’s Wii and gesture-based computing basically strips down the operating sys- - Microsoft’s Kinect - into the mainstream. Neurotech tem to make it as simple as possible for boosters hope video games can do the same for their the senior. All of the management of budding industry. In a sign of how serious they are the device happens remotely, by the about courting the video gaming industry, the two caregiver or family member. Many sen- camps staged the NeuroGaming Conference & Expo iors use it to have video chats with rela- earlier this month in San Francisco, the first event of tives or see family photos. But there are its kind, according to organizers. “Now is the time to other applications as well, like alerts to bring these communities together,” said Zack Lynch, take medication or a reminder that it’s the conference organizer and founder of the bingo night. “The senior doesn’t see an Neurotech Industry Organization. “We want to start operating system, files, folders, the conversation to see where we could actually take browsers or applications,” said Trescot. these technologies and to begin to create new experi- CALIFORNIA: Pat Holland, 88, demonstrates VideoCare in her room at “They touch the call button to make a ences that really push the boundaries of reality.” Vintage Senior Living in San Jose, California. VideoCare enables seniors to call or the photo button to see a photo. The event drew 300 people, including entrepre- stay in touch with family members. MCT We’ve reduced everything to one — neurs, neuroscientists and venture capitalists, anyone organizers believe could help spark the ideas that could create a full-blown neurotech industry. The abil- ity to read brain waves has been around at least since Mobile app to help fight the 1920s through a technique for capturing the brain’s electrical impulses called electroencephalogra- phy, or EEG, by attaching sensors to the head. Now, against racism in France brain waves can be read by small sensors that contin- ue to become more powerful and less expensive. PARIS: A French anti-racism association is launching a attach the location and send the information to Licra, At the same time, sensors of various kinds are mobile application it hopes will help eradicate racist graf- which will work with local authorities to have them being built into all sorts of gadgets such as smart- fiti by enabling users to take photos of offensive tags, quickly removed. Several buildings have been defaced phones and health monitoring wristbands such as geo-locate them and get them removed. Licra-the by racist tags in recent months in various parts of France- those made by Jawbone. Observers say this is making International League against Racism and Antisemitism- most of them mosques but also in one case a building people more comfortable with the idea of wearing said the app was a “digital response” to “a big increase in housing local headquarters of the Socialist party. One technology that includes sensors that collect tremen- racist and antisemitic acts” in France, and would be avail- mosque in Limoges in central France has been repeated- dous amounts of the most intimate data. “I think it’s a able for download from June 11. ly defaced since July last year-first by racist graffiti, then really exciting time right now,” said Anders Grunnet- Users who have the app will be able to take a snap of by excrement, and more recently this month by red liq- Jepsen, director of advanced technology and percep- racist tags they come across with their smartphones, uid that appeared to be blood. — AFP tual computing at Intel Corp. —MCT TV listings SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

17:55 Ben 10: Ultimate Alien 03:10 Tech Toys 360 18:20 Ben 10: Ultimate Alien 03:35 The Future Of... 18:45 Total Drama Island 04:25 Engineered 00:45 Monster Bug Wars 19:10 Total Drama Island 05:15 The Gadget Show 01:35 I’m Alive 19:35 Total Drama Island 05:40 How Tech Works 02:25 Wildwives Of Savannah Lane 20:00 Total Drama Island 06:05 Meteorite Men 03:15 Shark Feeding Frenzy 20:25 Total Drama Island 07:00 James May’s Man Lab 04:05 Whale Wars 20:50 Star Wars: The Clone Wars 07:50 X-Machines 04:55 Shamwari: A Wild Life 21:15 Star Wars: The Clone Wars 08:40 The Gadget Show 05:20 Echo And The Elephants Of 21:40 Evil Con Carne 09:05 How Tech Works Amboseli 22:00 Ben 10 09:30 Superships 05:45 Animal Airport 22:25 Ben 10 10:25 Superships 06:10 Animal Airport 22:50 Mucha Lucha ! 11:20 Superships 06:35 Wildlife SOS 23:15 Mucha Lucha ! 12:10 Engineered 07:00 Meerkat Manor 23:40 Powerpuff Girls 13:00 Engineered 07:25 Dogs 101: Specials 13:50 Sci-Fi Science 08:15 Crocodile Hunter 14:20 The Gadget Show 09:10 Baby Planet 14:45 How Tech Works 10:05 Monkey Life 15:10 X-Machines 10:30 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 16:00 Unchained Reaction 11:00 Bondi Vet 00:00 Amanpour 16:55 Stephen Hawking’s Grand 11:25 The Really Wild Show 00:30 World Sport Design 11:55 Wildest Islands 01:00 Piers Morgan Live 17:45 Tech Toys 360 12:50 Wild France 02:00 World Report 18:10 Tech Toys 360 13:45 Wild France 02:30 Backstory 18:35 X-Machines 14:40 Wild France 03:00 Anderson Cooper 360 19:30 James May’s Man Lab 15:30 Wild France 04:00 Piers Morgan Live 20:20 James May’s 20th Century 16:30 Wild France 05:00 Quest Means Business 20:45 James May’s 20th Century 17:25 Wild France 05:45 CNN Marketplace Africa 21:10 The Gadget Show 18:20 Speed Of Life 06:00 The Situation Room 21:35 How Tech Works 19:15 Mutant Planet 07:00 World Sport 22:00 James May’s Man Lab 20:10 How Sharks Hunt 07:30 Leading Women 22:50 Dark Matters: Twisted But True 21:05 Roaring With Pride 07:45 Fusion Journeys 23:40 The Gadget Show 22:00 My Cat From Hell 08:00 World Report 22:55 Karina: Wild On Safari 08:15 CNN Marketplace Africa 23:20 Karina: Wild On Safari 08:30 Backstory 23:50 Untamed & Uncut 09:00 World Report 09:15 CNN Marketplace Middle East 09:30 Sanjay Gupta MD 00:00 Hannah Montana 10:00 World Sport 00:20 Hannah Montana 10:30 Winning Post 00:45 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 10:45 The Gateway 01:05 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 00:40 Food Poker 11:00 The Best Of The Situation Room 01:30 Emperor’s New School 01:30 Masterchef: The Professionals 12:00 World Report 02:15 Replacements 02:15 Gok’s Clothes Roadshow 12:30 The Brief 02:35 Replacements 03:05 To Build Or Not To Build? 13:00 Amanpour 03:00 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 03:30 Cash In The Attic 13:30 Inside Africa 03:45 Emperor’s New School 04:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 Talk Asia 04:30 Replacements 05:00 House Swap 14:30 I Report For CNN 04:50 Replacements 05:45 Gok’s Clothes Roadshow 15:00 World Report 05:15 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 06:35 To Build Or Not To Build? 15:30 On China 05:35 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 07:00 Homes Under The Hammer 16:00 News Special 06:00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 07:55 Homes Under The Hammer 16:30 Backstory 06:25 Jake & The Neverland Pirates 08:50 Homes Under The Hammer 17:00 International Desk 06:35 Jake & The Neverland Pirates 09:50 Homes Under The Hammer 17:30 African Voices 06:45 Suite Life On Deck 10:40 Cash In The Attic 18:00 CNN Marketplace Europe 07:10 Toy Story 11:25 Come Dine With Me 18:15 CNN Marketplace Africa 08:30 Prankstars 12:15 Perfect Day 18:30 The Brief 08:45 Good Luck Charlie 12:40 Baking Mad With Eric Lanlard 19:00 World Sport 09:10 Code: 9 13:05 Baking Mad With Eric Lanlard 19:30 Open Court 09:35 Shake It Up 13:30 Food Poker 20:00 International Desk 10:00 Jessie 14:15 The Roux Legacy 20:30 Inside Africa 10:20 Austin And Ally 14:50 Food And Drink 21:00 International Desk 10:40 A.N.T Farm 15:15 Bargain Hunt 21:30 Leading Women 11:05 The Wizards Return: Alex vs. 16:00 Antiques Roadshow Alex. 17:00 Extreme Makeover: Home MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III ON OSN ACTION HD 12:05 Dog With A Blog Edition Specials 12:25 Prankstars 18:20 Extreme Makeover: Home 12:00 BBC World News 05:25 Gerald McBoing Boing 02:10 Ben 10: Ultimate Alien 12:35 A.N.T Farm Edition 12:10 BBC World News 05:45 Jelly Jamm 02:35 Ben 10: Ultimate Alien 13:00 Hannah Montana 19:00 Celebrity MasterChef 13:00 BBC World News 06:00 Ha Ha Hairies 03:00 The Amazing World Of 00:15 Wheeler Dealers 01:10 Wheeler Dealers: Trading Up 13:25 Austin And Ally 19:55 Celebrity MasterChef 13:10 World Features 06:25 Baby Looney Tunes Gumball 13:45 Good Luck Charlie 20:20 Come Dine With Me 13:30 Newsnight 06:50 Cartoonito Tales 03:25 Regular Show 02:05 Fifth Gear 03:00 Mythbusters 14:10 That’s So Raven 21:15 Antiques Roadshow 14:00 BBC World News 07:15 Krypto: The Super Dog 03:50 Ben 10: Omniverse 14:35 A.N.T Farm 22:15 Bargain Hunt: Famous Finds 14:30 Our World 07:40 Lazytown 04:15 Scooby-Doo! Mystery 03:55 Border Security - Series 6 Specials 14:55 Code: 9 23:00 Extreme Makeover: Home 15:00 BBC World News 08:05 Gerald McBoing Boing Incorporated 15:25 Prankstars Edition 15:10 Weekend World 08:30 Bananas In Pyjamas 04:40 Powerpuff Girls 04:20 Auction Hunters 04:50 Storage Hunters 15:35 Dog With A Blog 23:45 Ty Pennington’s Homes For 15:30 Talking Movies 08:55 Jelly Jamm 05:05 Evil Con Carne 16:00 The Wizards Return: Alex vs. The Brave 16:00 BBC World News 09:20 Ha Ha Hairies 05:30 Cow & Chicken 05:15 How Machines Work 05:40 How Stuff’s Made Alex. 16:15 Sport Today 09:45 Baby Looney Tunes 06:00 Casper’s Scare School 17:00 Bolt 16:30 Fast Track 10:10 Cartoonito Tales 06:30 Angelo Rules 06:05 Sons Of Guns 07:00 James May’s Man Lab 18:30 A.N.T Farm 17:00 BBC World News 10:35 Krypto: The Super Dog 07:00 Thundercats 18:55 Code: 9 17:30 Dateline London 11:00 Lazytown 07:25 Batman: The Brave And The 07:50 You Have Been Warned 08:45 Mythbusters 19:20 Jessie 18:00 BBC World News 11:25 Ha Ha Hairies Bold 19:40 Shake It Up 00:00 BBC World News America 18:10 Indian Ocean With Simon 11:50 Gerald McBoing Boing 07:50 Young Justice 09:40 Mythbusters 00:30 BBC World News America 10:30 Igenius 20:05 Austin And Ally Reeve 12:15 Baby Looney Tunes 08:15 Hero 108 20:25 A.N.T Farm 01:00 BBC World News 19:00 BBC World News 12:40 Jelly Jamm 08:40 Scooby-Doo! Mystery 11:25 The Ipod Revolution 01:30 Newsnight 12:20 Fifth Gear 20:50 Jessie 19:30 BBC World News 13:00 Tiny Toon Adventures Incorporated 21:15 Jessie 02:00 BBC World News 20:00 BBC World News 13:50 What’s New Scooby Doo 09:05 Scooby-Doo! Mystery 13:15 Fifth Gear 02:30 Our World 14:10 Fifth Gear 21:40 Hannah Montana 20:30 The Culture Show 14:40 Tom And Jerry Tales Incorporated 22:00 Jonas 03:00 BBC World News 21:00 BBC World News 15:30 The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby-Doo 09:35 Ben 10: Omniverse 15:05 Fifth Gear 03:10 Weekend World 16:00 Fifth Gear 22:25 Sonny With A Chance 21:15 Sport Today 15:55 The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby-Doo 10:00 Dreamworks Dragons Riders Of 22:50 Sonny With A Chance 03:30 Talking Books 21:30 Fast Track 16:20 Sylvester & Tweety Mysterie Berk 16:55 Fifth Gear 04:00 BBC World News 17:50 Wheeler Dealers: Trading Up 23:10 Wizards Of Waverly Place 22:00 BBC World News 17:10 What’s New Scooby Doo 10:25 Johnny Test 23:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 04:30 Horizons 22:30 Click 18:00 Tom And Jerry Tales 10:50 Gormiti New 18:45 Gold Divers: Under The Ice 05:00 BBC World News 23:00 BBC World News 18:50 The Looney Tunes Show 11:15 Evil Con Carne 19:40 Alaska: The Last Frontier 05:10 Indian Ocean With Simon 19:40 Taz-Mania 11:40 The Amazing World Of 20:35 Sons Of Guns Reeve 20:05 Taz-Mania Gumball 21:30 Storage Hunters 06:00 BBC World News 20:30 The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby-Doo 12:05 Adventure Time 21:55 Storage Hunters 06:30 Fast Track 20:55 The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby-Doo 12:55 Regular Show 22:25 Storage Hunters 07:00 BBC World News 21:20 Tom And Jerry Tales 13:45 Angelo Rules 23:20 Storage Hunters 00:00 Opening Act 07:30 The Culture Show 00:45 Wacky Races 22:10 Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries 14:10 Ben 10: Omniverse 23:45 Death Row: The Final 24 Hours 00:55 Style Star 08:00 BBC World News 01:35 Duck Dodgers 22:35 Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries 14:35 Dreamworks Dragons Riders Of 01:25 E! Investigates 08:30 Middle East Business Report 02:00 Duck Dodgers 23:00 Moomins Berk 03:15 Style Star 09:00 BBC World News 02:25 Dastardly And Muttley 23:50 Duck Dodgers 15:00 Gormiti New 03:40 Extreme Close-Up 09:30 Click 02:50 Dastardly And Muttley 15:25 Young Justice 04:10 THS 10:00 BBC World News 03:00 Dexter’s Laboratory 15:50 Ben 10: Omniverse 05:05 THS 10:10 Weekend World 03:30 Wacky Races 16:15 The Amazing World Of 00:05 How Tech Works 06:00 THS 10:30 Talking Books 03:55 Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries Gumball 00:30 Sci-Fi Science 07:50 Style Star 11:00 BBC World News 04:20 Tom & Jerry 16:40 Adventure Time 01:00 The Future Of... 08:20 E! News 11:10 Football Focus 04:45 The Garfield Show 17:05 Regular Show 01:50 Sport Science 09:15 Keeping Up With The 11:30 Horizons 05:00 Bananas In Pyjamas 00:30 Grim Adventures Of... 01:20 Johnny Test 17:30 Johnny Test 02:45 Tech Toys 360 Kardashians TV listings SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

10:15 E!es 17:50 Barefoot Contessa 14:00 My Sri Lanka With Peter 17:00 Spy Kids: All The Time In The 21:30 The Colbert Report 15:00 Cats Don’t Dance 11:10 THS 18:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives Kuruvita World-PG 22:00 Saturday Night Live 16:30 Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s 12:05 E! News 18:40 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 14:30 Somewhere In China 19:00 Violet & Daisy-PG15 23:00 Legit Adventure 13:05 Scouted 19:05 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 15:25 Scam City 21:00 Cedar Rapids-18 23:30 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 18:00 Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil 14:05 Playing With Fire 19:30 Chopped 16:20 Treks In A Wild World 23:00 Meet Monica Velour-R 20:00 Wheelers 15:00 Chasing The Saturdays 20:20 Chopped 16:45 Treks In A Wild World 21:30 Hugo 15:30 Chasing The Saturdays 21:10 Ultimate Recipe Showdown 17:15 Cycling Home From Siberia 23:45 Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s 16:00 Chasing The Saturdays 22:00 Food Wars With Rob Lilwall 00:00 Eureka Adventure 16:30 Chasing The Saturdays 22:25 Food Wars 17:40 Cycling Home From Siberia 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon 01:00 Survivor: Caramoan 17:00 Chasing The Saturdays 22:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives With Rob Lilwall Stewart 04:00 Red Widow 17:30 Chasing The Saturdays 23:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 18:10 Don’t Tell My Mother 01:00 The Colbert Report 05:00 Smash 18:00 E! News 23:40 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 19:05 On Surfari 01:30 Unsupervised 06:00 Eureka 19:00 Chasing The Saturdays 19:30 On Surfari 00:00 MSNBC Hardball With Chris 02:00 Unsupervised 07:00 Smallville Matthews 19:30 Chasing The Saturdays 20:00 Roam 02:30 Legit 08:00 The Finder 01:00 MSNBC Politicsnation 20:00 Chasing The Saturdays 20:30 Graham’s World 03:00 Breaking In 09:00 Last Resort 20:30 Chasing The Saturdays 21:00 Extreme Tourist Afghanistan 03:30 Friends 10:00 Red Widow 02:00 Live NBC Nightly News 21:00 Chasing The Saturdays 22:00 Scam City 04:00 Seinfeld 11:00 Survivor: Caramoan 02:30 ABC World News With Diane 21:30 Fashion Police 00:45 International Open House 22:55 Finding Genghis 04:30 The Tonight Show With Jay 12:00 Smallville Sawyer 22:30 E! News 01:10 International Open House 23:20 Finding Genghis Leno 15:00 Eureka 03:00 MSNBC All In With Chris Hayes 23:30 Chelsea Lately 01:40 Earth Tripping 23:50 Don’t Tell My Mother 05:30 Hope & Faith 16:00 Smallville 04:00 MSNBC The Rachel Maddow 02:05 Earth Tripping 07:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 18:00 The Finder Show 02:35 David Rocco‚Äôs Dolce Vita 08:00 Seinfeld 19:00 The Glades 05:00 MSNBC The Last Word With 08:30 Hope & Faith 20:00 Criminal Minds Lawrence O’Donnell 03:00 David Rocco‚Äôs Dolce Vita 00:00 Exorcismus-18 09:00 Breaking In 21:00 White Collar 00:30 Dr G: Medical Examiner 03:30 My Sri Lanka With Peter 02:00 Arena-18 06:00 NBC Nightly News 09:30 Go On 22:00 Sons Of Anarchy 01:20 A Haunting Kuruvita 04:00 Arctic Blast-PG15 06:30 ABC World News With Diane 10:00 Cougar Town 02:05 Scorned: Crimes Of Passion 03:55 My Sri Lanka With Peter 06:00 Mission: Impossible II-PG15 Sawyer 11:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 02:55 Most Evil Kuruvita 08:00 Brake-PG15 07:00 Live NBC Nightly News Leno 03:45 I Almost Got Away With It 04:25 Somewhere In China 09:45 The New Daughter-PG15 07:39 ABC Nightline 12:00 Arrested Development 04:30 Dr G: Medical Examiner 05:20 On Surfari 11:45 Mission: Impossible III-PG15 00:00 Fertile Ground 08:06 Live MSNBC The Rachel 12:30 Seinfeld 05:20 A Haunting 05:45 On Surfari 14:00 Brake-PG15 02:00 Exorcismus Maddow Show 13:00 Hope & Faith 06:10 Nightmare Next Door 06:15 Roam 16:00 Superman vs. The Elite-PG15 04:00 Arena 10:00 MSNBC Morning Joe 14:00 Friends 07:00 Mystery Diagnosis 06:40 Graham’s World 17:45 Mission: Impossible III-PG15 06:00 Arctic Blast 13:00 MSNBC Caught On Camera 07:10 Extreme Tourist Afghanistan 14:30 Cougar Town 07:50 Street Patrol 20:00 The Corruptor-18 08:00 Mission: Impossible II 14:00 Live NBC Saturday Today Show 08:05 Treks In A Wild World 15:00 Go On 08:15 Street Patrol 22:00 Backdraft-PG15 10:00 Brake 16:00 MSNBC Up With Steve Kornacki 08:40 Real Emergency Calls 08:30 Treks In A Wild World 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon 11:45 The New Daughter 17:57 Live MSNBC Hardball With 09:05 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 09:00 Cycling Home From Siberia Stewart 13:45 Mission: Impossible III Chris Matthews 09:30 True Crime With Aphrodite With Rob Lilwall 16:00 The Colbert Report 16:00 Brake 18:38 Live MSNBC The Ed Show Jones 09:25 Cycling Home From Siberia 16:30 Arrested Development 18:00 Superman vs. The Elite 10:20 Murder Shift With Rob Lilwall 01:00 Once Brothers-PG15 17:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 19:45 Mission: Impossible III 19:19 Live MSNBC The Rachel 11:10 Disappeared 09:55 Don’t Tell My Mother 03:00 Marley & Me: The Puppy Years- 18:00 Breaking In 22:00 The Corruptor Maddow Show 12:00 Mystery Diagnosis 10:50 International Open House PG 18:30 Happy Endings 20:00 Live ABC 20/20 12:50 Street Patrol 11:15 International Open House 05:00 The Proud Family Movie-FAM 19:00 The Neighbors 21:00 MSNBC Weekends With Alex 13:15 Street Patrol 11:45 George Clark’s Amazing Spaces 07:00 The Game Of Their Lives-PG15 19:30 The Office Witt Saturday 13:40 Forensic Detectives 12:40 David Rocco‚Äôs Dolce Vita 09:00 Once Brothers-PG15 20:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 23:00 MSNBC News 14:30 True Crime With Aphrodite 13:05 David Rocco‚Äôs Dolce Vita 10:45 John Carter-PG15 Leno 00:00 Dazed And Confused-PG15 Jones 13:35 My Sri Lanka With Peter 13:00 Enter The Phoenix-PG15 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 02:00 The Goods: Live Hard, Sell 15:20 Real Emergency Calls Kuruvita 15:00 Twins Mission-PG15 Stewart Hard-18 15:45 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 04:00 Back To The Future-PG15 16:10 Disappeared 06:00 Barnyard-PG 01:00 Test Cricket 17:00 Murder Shift 08:00 Snowmen-PG 08:00 Top 14 17:50 Forensic Detectives 10:00 Smooch-PG15 10:00 Futbol Mundial 18:40 True Crime With Aphrodite 12:00 Back To The Future-PG15 10:30 Live NRL Premiership Jones 14:00 Police Academy 4: Citizens On 12:30 ICC Cricket 360 19:30 Disappeared Patrol-PG15 13:00 Live Test Cricket 20:20 Nightmare Next Door 16:00 Smooch-PG15 21:00 Trans World Sport 21:10 Couples Who Kill 18:00 Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final 22:00 Live PGA Tour 22:00 I Was Murdered Insult-PG15 22:50 Stalked: Someone’s Watching 20:00 A Few Best Men-18 23:15 Stalked: Someone’s Watching 22:00 Dazed And Confused-PG15 23:40 On The Case With Paula Zahn 00:00 WWE SmackDown 02:00 WWE Bottom Line 03:00 Super Rugby 01:00 Middle Men-18 05:00 Super Rugby 03:00 Shadows & Lies-18 07:00 Live AFL Premiership 05:15 Dying Young-PG15 10:00 Trans World Sport 00:05 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 07:15 The Presidio-PG15 00:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 09:00 Every Jack Has A Jill-PG15 11:00 ICC Cricket 360 00:55 Unwrapped 11:00 Would Be Kings-PG15 11:30 Live Super Rugby 01:20 Unwrapped 13:00 Trust-PG15 13:30 Live Super Rugby 01:45 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 15:00 Every Jack Has A Jill-PG15 15:30 Futbol Mundial 02:10 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 17:00 Super 8-PG15 16:00 Trans World Sport 02:35 Heat Seekers 19:00 The Last Gamble-18 17:00 Live Super Rugby 03:00 Heat Seekers 21:00 Incendies-PG15 19:00 Live Super Rugby 03:25 Food Wars 23:15 Butch Cassidy And The 21:00 Live Super Rugby 03:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives Sundance Kid-PG 23:00 NRL Premiership 04:15 Unique Eats 04:40 Chopped 05:30 Iron Chef America 06:10 Food Network Challenge 07:00 Healthy Appetite With Ellie 00:00 Marley-PG15 02:30 AFL Premiership Krieger 02:30 Real Steel-PG15 05:00 Trans World Sport 07:25 Healthy Appetite With Ellie 04:45 Harry Potter And The Deathly 06:00 Golfing World Krieger Hallows Pt.2-PG15 07:00 PGA Tour 07:50 Healthy Appetite With Ellie 07:00 A Cinderella Story: Once Upon 10:30 Total Rugby Krieger A Song-PG 11:00 Trans World Sport 08:15 Healthy Appetite With Ellie 09:00 A Thousand Words-PG15 12:00 NRL Full Time Krieger 10:45 Real Steel-PG15 12:30 Live NRL Premiership 08:40 Cooking For Real 13:00 Marion Jones: Press Pause- 14:30 Live PGA European Tour 09:05 Cooking For Real PG15 19:30 Total Rugby 09:30 Cooking For Real 14:00 We Bought A Zoo-PG 20:00 Futbol Mundial 09:55 Cooking For Real 16:15 A Thousand Words-PG15 20:45 Live Super League 10:20 Tyler’s Ultimate 18:00 The Descendants-PG15 22:45 Top 14 10:45 Tyler’s Ultimate 20:00 Phil Spector-PG15 11:10 Tyler’s Ultimate 22:00 Best Laid Plans-18 11:35 Tyler’s Ultimate 12:00 Staten Island Cakes 12:50 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 00:00 NHL Basics 02:00 Prizefighter 13:15 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 01:15 Princess Sydney: The Legend 05:00 NHL Basics Of The Blue Rabbit 07:00 WWE SmackDown 13:40 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 02:30 The Ugly Duckling In The 09:00 WWE Bottom Line Basics Enchanted Forest 10:00 WWE Vintage Collection 14:05 Unique Sweets 04:15 A Venetian Rascal Goes To 11:00 Live AFL Premiership 14:30 Unique Sweets America 14:00 Live Super League 14:55 Unique Sweets 06:00 Princess Sydney: The Legend 16:00 WWE SmackDown 15:20 Unique Sweets Of The Blue Rabbit 18:00 Mobil 1 The Grid 15:45 Chopped 07:45 Tom Tom & Nana 18:45 Live Pro 12 16:35 Barefoot Contessa 09:15 Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil 21:15 UFC Countdown 17:00 Barefoot Contessa 11:00 The Search For Santa Paws 22:15 Mobil 1 The Grid 17:25 Barefoot Contessa JOHN CARTER ON OSN CINEMA 12:45 Hugo 22:45 Live Super League WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

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ishwa Pal Goel - We’ll always remember that spe- Vcial smile, that caring heart, that warm embrace Kuwait Mar Thoma Church you always gave us. Your being there for all of us through good and bad times, no matter what. We’ll always remember you because there will never be golden jubilee celebrations another one to replace you in our hearts, and the love we will always have for you. From loving wife Sneh Lata he valedictory meeting of the yearlong golden jubilee on the meditations of Mar Chrysostom will be released on the (Nuna) Goel, children Sheena, Simi and Vishal Goel, Tcelebrations of Kuwait Marthoma parish will be held as occasion. family and friends. “Ecclesia - 2013 on Friday, May 31, 2013 at NECK with Dr Philipose Mar Chrysostom, Metropolitan, Dr Joseph Holy Communion service starting at 6.00 AM followed by pub- Marthoma, will lead the Holy Communion with Episcopa Dr lic meeting. On the occasion ‘Valiya’ Metropolitan Rev Dr Joseph Mar Barnabas. The public meeting will be attend apart Philipose Mar Chrysostom, who completed the diamond from the Bishops, Indian Ambassador Satish C Mehta, distin- jubilee of his Episcopal ordination will be honored. The blood guished guests like former Kuwait Health Minister Dr. Hilal Al Announcements bank donated to Kattanam Mission Hospital to commemorate Sayer, Marafi Foundation Chairman Abdul Ilah Marafi, Abdul the jubilee will be informally inaugurated. The declaration on Fatah Marafi Immanuel Gareeb, the vicars of various Episcopal starting of a professional Counseling & Guidance Center in churches in Kuwait and other dignitaries. Committees of 111 Classical music at AUK Kuwaitas part of the jubilee celebrations and release of a book members are working for the success of Ecclesia 2013. he Department of Music and Drama is hosting a Tdemonstration/ masterclass with the German classical guitarist Friedemann at the American University of Kuwait (AUK), 28 May 3 pm, Liberal Arts Building, room 205. Wuttke is a gifted performer, having played with major ensembles and orchestras. Besides various concerts in Germany, he has toured in the United States and South East Asia, as well as several European metropolises. This, his first visit to the Gulf region, has been realized with the support of the German Embassy in Kuwait, in cooperation with the Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah. The AUK performance is free and open to the public.

AIP shaam-e ghazal he Association of Indian Professionals (AIP), Kuwait, Tforthcoming event has been scheduled for the evening of May 25, 2013 at 6 pm at the auditorium of Indian Community Senior School, Salmiya and is titled as AIP Shaam-e-Ghazal. We have invited Raghuram Krishnan, a Ghazal singer from Cochin, India to make this evening more melodious and vibrant. He will be supported by few local musicians also. Ambassador of India, Satish C. Mehta will be the Chief Guest. Admission is by invitation and children below 10 years of age will not be allowed.

The TIES Center’s ‘trip’ he TIES Center cordially invites those who are interest- IEI executives meet Chairman Ted in its trip to the Historical, Vintage and Classic Car Museum, which is the first museum in Kuwait special- izing in old cars on May 30th at 6:00 pm. Revisit past memo- Kuwait Society of Engineers ries or learn something new. If you love cars then this is the trip for you. Even if you don’t love cars, come anyway; you will enjoy the trip. For more information/registration, log he Executive Committee Members a Kuwaiti Society of Engineers; This is a those issues with the support and valu- onto: www.tiescenter.net. Tof IEI, Kuwait Chapter met newly Kuwait society of Engineers . A common able experience of all engineers from dif- elected Chairman of Kuwait Society platform for Kuwaiti and all other nation- ferent engineering associations in Raghav Juyal show on June 7 of Engineers 14th May 2013 at KSE Office ality engineers in Kuwait.” Chairman of IEI Kuwait. He expects more cooperation he Dancing Divas is organizing its 5th Annual to congratulate him and his team. IEI, Kuwait Chapter Dr Rumane also specifically from the Institution of the Jubilation on the 7th of June 2013 at Cambridge Kuwait chapter team was led by exchanged his greetings on behalf of all Engineers Kuwait chapter. He suggested T Chairman Dr Abdul Razzak Rumane who the Indian Engineers working in Kuwait technical seminars, workshops, training, School, Mangaf, between 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. The was accompanied by Chapter General and recalled his memoirs about the long- exchange of technical ideas/discussions program will be attended by Raghav Juyal (Dance India Secretary Engr Karunagaran, Treasurer lasting relationship between the IEI jointly under the umbrella of KSE in Dance Fame) who will be judging the show as well as Engr Mohammed Fareedul Haq Imadi, Kuwait chapter and Kuwait Society of which engineers from all the nationali- entertaining the audience with his dance performances. Members of the Executive Committee Engineers (KSE) since 1996 and how the ties, including Kuwaitis engineers can Another highlight of the show is the presence of Raja Engr. Somasundaram, Engr Philip Chako, seminars and various discussions took participate. KSE Chairman assured his Sagoo (Comedy Circus Fame) who will be anchor for the Engr Thomas John, Engr Yusuf Ali Sabir place in the KSE premises. continued support and contribution to event. Raghav will also be conducting a dance workshop and Engr Ashish Koranne The Chairman of Kuwait Society of the Indian Engineers and to foster a spirit on the 8th of June at the Salmiya Model School. Workshop Engr Ayad Abdul Hameed Al Hamoud Engineers also discussed the present of mutual cooperation between IEI will be for participants within the age group of 8 and 30 greeted the IEI, Kuwait Chapter Executive concerns and challenges of the Society Kuwait chapter and Kuwait society of and will be open for registration till the 30th of May. Committee Members and said “This is not and his new look and vision in addressing engineers. WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 ICSK bags table tennis team Embassy championship in CBSE meet Information

EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIA The Australian Embassy Kuwait does not have a visa or immigration department. All processing of visas and immigration matters in conducted by The Australian Consulate-General in Dubai. Email: info.aus- [email protected] (VFS) he under-16 boys’ [email protected] (Visa Office); table tennis team of Tel: +971 4 355 1958 (VFS) - +971 4 508 7200 T (Visa Office); Fax: +971 4 355 0708 (Visa Office). the Indian Community School, Kuwait has brought In Kuwait applications can be lodged at the laurels to the school by win- Australian Visa Application Centre 4B 1st Floor, ning the team championship Al-Banwan Building Al-Qibla Area, Ali Al-Salem and the individual champi- Street, opposite the Central Bank of Kuwait, onship event in the 15th Kuwait City, Kuwait. Working hours and days: CBSE Kuwait-cluster table 09:30 - 17:30; Sunday - Thursday. Or visit their tennis tournament. The website www.vfs-au-gcc-com for more informa- members of the winning tion. Kuwait citizens can apply for tourist visas team are Pranav Jogiani, on-line at www.immi.gov.au/e visa/e676.htm. class X, Sarthak Jogiani, class ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ V, Adeep Singh, class X and Irwin, class XI. The tourna- EMBASSY OF CANADA ment was held during the The Embassy of Canada in Kuwait does first week of May, 2013, at not have a visa or immigration depart- Indian Educational School, ment. All processing of visa and immi- Kuwait. It is a moment of gration matters including enquiries is conduct- double pride as the individ- ed by the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, ual championship in the UAE. Individuals who are interested in working, same category was also studying, visiting or immigrating to Canada bagged by PranavJogiani of should contact the Canadian Embassy in Abu the ICSK. Also, the under-19 Dhabi, website: www.UAE.gc.ca or www.going- table tennis girls’ team com- tocanada.gc.ca, E-mail: abdbi-im- prising Saloni Gandhi, [email protected]. The Embassy of Khushboo Chandwani, Asha Thomas, Sadiya Gulam (all Canada is located at Villa 24, Al-Mutawakei St, from class XII) was the run- Block 4 in Da’aiyah. Please visit our website at ners-up in the tournament. www.Kuwait.gc.ca. The Embassy of Canada is ICSK congratulates the win- open from 07:30 to 15:30 Sunday through ners. Thursday. The reception is open from 07:30 to 12:30. Consular services for Canadian citizens are provided from 09:00 until 12:00, Sunday through Wednesday. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ EMBASSY OF CYPRUS In its capacity as EU Local Presidency in the State of Kuwait, the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus, on behalf of the Member States of the EU and associated States participating in the Schengen cooperation, would like to announce that as from 2nd October 2012 all Schengen States’ Consulates in Kuwait will use the Visa Information System (VIS). The VIS is a cen- tral database for the exchange of data on short-stay (up to three months) visas between Schengen States. The main objectives of the VIS are to facilitate visa application pro- cedures and checks at external border as well as to enhance security. The VIS will contain all the Schengen visa applications lodged by an applicant over five years and the decisions taken by any Schengen State’s con- sulate. This will allow applicants to establish more easily the lawful use of previous visas and their bona fide status. For the purpose of the VIS, applicants will be required to provide their biometric data (fingerprints and digital pho- tos) when applying for a Schengen visa. It is a simple and discreet procedure that only takes a few minutes. Biometric data, along with the data provided in the Schengen visa application form, will be recorded in the VIS central database. Therefore, as from 2nd October 2012, first-time applicants will have to appear in person when lodging the application, in order to provide their fingerprints. For subsequent applications within 5 years the fingerprints can be copied from the previous applica- tion file in the VIS. The Cypriot Presidency would like to assure the people of Kuwait and all its permanent citizens KNES Big Tree Society initiative that the Member States and associated States participat- ing in the Schengen cooperation, have taken all necessary he Big Tree Society launched by enhancing the awareness about envi- private schools in Kuwait. Kuwait technical measures to facilitate the rapid examination and T the UNESCO, in cooperation ronmental conservation. Kuwait National English School are very the efficient processing of visa applications and to ensure with Boubyan Bank, is a unique National English School excelled in proud of our achievement and our a quick and discreet procedure for the implementation of initiative, being a program directed the Competition held by Boubyan involvement with all UNESCO activi- the new VIS. to schools with the objective of Bank, taking first place amongst the ties since 1996. HEALTH SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 Unions angry about health care overhaul Employers will be tempted to drop coverage WASHINGTON: When President Barack Obama could keep it,” said Joe Hansen, president of the plans. The Affordable Care Act has added to that pushed his health care overhaul plan through United Food and Commercial Workers cost - for the unions’ and other plans - by requir- Congress, he counted labor unions among his International Union. ing health plans to cover dependents up to age strongest supporters. But some unions leaders “That is not going to be true for millions of 26, eliminate annual or lifetime coverage limits have grown frustrated and angry about what workers now.” The problem lies in the unique and extend coverage to people with pre-exist- they say are unexpected consequences of the multiemployer health plans that cover union- ing conditions. HONG KONG: A man (R) weighs a chicken in a poultry new law - problems that they say could jeopard- ized workers in retail, construction, transporta- “We’re concerned that employers will be market in Hong Kong yesterday. According to local ize the health benefits offered to millions of their tion and other industries with seasonal or tem- increasingly tempted to drop coverage through reports, the H7N9 bird flu virus can be transmitted members. porary employment. Known as Taft-Hartley our plans and let our members fend for them- not only through close contact but by airborne expo- The issue could create a political headache plans, they are jointly administered by unions selves on the health exchanges,” said David sure, a team at the University of Hong Kong found next year for Democrats facing re-election if dis- and smaller employers that pool resources to Treanor, director of health care initiatives at the after extensive laboratory experiments. —AFP gruntled union members believe the Obama offer more than 20 million workers and family Operating Engineers union. administration and Congress aren’t working to members continuous coverage, even during Workers seeking coverage in the state-based fix the problem. times of unemployment. marketplaces, known as exchanges, can qualify Obesity weighs “It makes an untruth out of what the presi- The union plans were already more costly to for subsidies, determined by a sliding scale dent said, that if you like your insurance, you run than traditional single-employer health based on income. By contrast, the new law does not allow workers in the union plans to receive down ontop soda similar subsidies. Bob Laszewski, a health care industry con- guzzler Mexico sultant, said the real fear among unions is that “a lot of these labor contracts are very expensive MEXICO CITY: Artemio Martinez balanced his corpulent frame on a and now employers are going to have an alter- stool in a Mexico City street taco stand, downing a sweet soda and eat- native to very expensive labor health benefits.” ing a final pork-filled corn tortilla. “Can you give me another soft drink “If the workers can get benefits that are as to quickly wash down the fifth taco? And the bill please,” Martinez, a good through Obamacare in the exchanges, 42-year-old accountant weighing in at 140 kilograms (309 pounds), then why do you need the union?” Laszewski asked the cook. The damage for his wallet is relatively light: 40 pesos said. “In my mind, what the unions are fearing is ($3) for five meat tortillas and 18 pesos ($1.4) for two sodas. But Mexico that workers for the first time can get very good is paying a heavy price for its diet, giving it the dubious distinction of health benefits for a subsidized cost someplace being the world’s top consumer of sodas and home of the world’s sec- other than the employer.” ond most obese population after its giant northern neighbor, the However, Laszewski said it was unlikely United States. employers would drop the union plans immedi- Latin America’s second biggest economy after Brazil has lived ately because they are subject to ongoing col- through lean times in the past, with a damaging peso crisis in 1994 and lective bargaining agreements. Labor unions the global financial debacle in 2009. But it has enjoyed periods of have been among the president’s closest allies, growth. And Alejandro Calvillo, director of the Consumer Power non- spending millions of dollars to help him win re- governmental organization, said the free trade pacts credited with election and help Democrats keep their majority helping Mexico’s economy grow have stuffed the country with less in the Senate. The wrangling over health care healthy foods. “There has been a change in eating habits that has comes as unions have continued to see steady sharply increased in the past 20 years, with a bigger infiltration of the declines in membership and attacks on public processed foods industry” like bubbly soft drinks,” Calvillo, whose NGO employee unions in state legislatures around lobbies for the regulation of such foods, told AFP. the country. The Obama administration walks a With trade pacts, Mexico has “surrendered to the commercial values fine line between defending the president’s sig- of transnational companies that displaced the traditional Mexican diet,” nature legislative achievement and not anger- he said, blaming also the “relentless” advertising for such products. ing a powerful constituency as it looks ahead to Mexico’s obesity rate soared from 9.5 percent in 1988 to 32 percent the 2014 elections. last year in the nation of 112 million people, according to the National CINCINNATI: In this Sept. 7, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama Union officials have been working with the Medical Academy. And a staggering 70 percent of the population is speaks at the AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic at Coney Island in Cincinnati. administration for more than a year to try to get overweight-even though almost half the population lives in poverty. Some labor unions that initially backed Obama’s health care overhaul a regulatory fix that would allow low-income Mexico guzzles down 163 liters (43 gallons) of soda per capita per year, according to a Yale University study. The country accounts for are now frustrated and angry about what they say are unexpected con- workers in their plans to receive subsidies. But after months of negotiations, labor leaders say 22,000 of the 180,000 annual deaths worldwide associated with sugary sequences of the plan that could hurt their members. —AP they have been told it won’t happen. —AP drink consumption, a Harvard University study found. —AFP WHO warns countries not to hoard secrets of coronavirus GENEVA: The World Health Organization ference in Geneva. use their method to study it would have to Chan told the health ministers “you are (WHO) warned countries with possible cas- “No IP will stand in the way of public pay the lab. the boss” and urged them to ensure scien- es of the SARS-like novel coronavirus on health actions.” The virus was identified in The patenting had delayed the develop- tists shared their specimens with WHO’s Thursday that they must share information September last year, three months after a ment of diagnostic kits and serologic tests network of collaborating laboratories. The and not allow commercial labs to profit scientist took a sample from Saudi Arabia to for the disease, Memish said. “The virus was patent does not break WHO rules on shar- from the virus, which has killed 22 people the Erasmus Medical Center in the sent out of the country and it was patented, ing such information on a possible pan- worldwide. Netherlands. contracts were signed with vaccine compa- demic, which only apply to flu viruses, but Saudi Arabia, where the first case “There was a lag of three months where nies and anti-viral drug companies and there is a legal requirement for countries to occurred, has said the development of diag- we were not aware of the discovery of the that’s why they have a MTA (Material notify WHO of any outbreak of disease of nostic tests for the disease has been virus,” Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Health Transfer Agreement) to be signed by any- international concern. delayed by a foreign laboratory’s patent Minister Ziad Memish told the Geneva body who can utilise that virus and that Keiji Fukuda, WHO’s assistant director- rights on the SARS-like virus. meeting. should not happen.” general for health security, said there was “Making deals between scientists He said it was taken out of the country Earlier on Thursday, Saudi Arabia still a “huge amount” unknown about the because they want to take IP (intellectual without permission and Saudi Arabia only announced another death from the virus in virus and great concern about its potential property), because they want to be the learned of its discovery from ProMED, a US- its central al-Qassim region, bringing the to spread. Among the gaps in the knowl- world’s first to publish in scientific journals, based internet-based reporting system. The total number of deaths in the kingdom to edge of the virus was information about its these are issues we need to address,” WHO Rotterdam-based Erasmus lab then patent- 17. Jordan, Qatar, Tunisia, the United Arab geographical spread, and many countries Director General Margaret Chan told health ed the process for synthesising the virus, Emirates, France and Britain have all had may only have minimal surveillance for the ministers attending the WHO’s annual con- meaning that anyone else who wanted to cases of the the virus. disease, he said. —Reuters HEALTH SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 Hospitals Sabah Hospital 24812000 Amiri Hospital 22450005 Maternity Hospital 24843100 Mubarak Al-Kabir Hospital 25312700 Chest Hospital 24849400 Farwaniya Hospital 24892010 Adan Hospital 23940620 Ibn Sina Hospital 24840300 Al-Razi Hospital 24846000 Physiotherapy Hospital 24874330/9 CHANGE OF NAME

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Indians cruise past Red McCutchen, Pirates beat Cubs for 4th straight win Sox; Francona returns PITTSBURGH: It was hard to tell whether the Pittsburgh Pirates were heading on a road trip or getting ready for a Stanley Cup playoff game after BOSTON: Drew Stubbs and Mark Reynolds drove in three major league-leading total to 21.The fourth overall pick in beating the Chicago Cubs 4-2 on Thursday for their runs each and Cleveland had 16 hits in the Indians’ 12-3 the 2012 draft, Gausman (0-1) allowed four runs and seven fourth straight win. All of the Pirates’ players and win over the Boston Red Sox in manager Terry Francona’s hits in five innings. He walked two and struck out five. coaches wore Pittsburgh Penguins’ replica jerseys as return to Fenway Park on Thursday night. Francona, let go they got ready to embark on a road trip to by Boston after the 2011 season, got a standing ovation ANGELS 5, ROYALS 4 Milwaukee and Detroit. The Penguins even sent a after the first inning during a video tribute on the center- Mike Trout and Albert Pujols hit solo home runs, and custom-made No 13 sweater to manager Clint field scoreboard. In eight years as manager, Francona led Mark Trumbo hit a two-run shot. Joe Blanton got his first Hurdle. the Red Sox to two World Series championships. In his first victory of the season after going 0-7 in his first nine starts. The Penguins lead the Ottawa Senators 3-1 in year as Cleveland’s manager, he has the Indians in first He held the Royals to seven hits and two runs in 6 1-3 their best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal. place in the AL Central after they went 68-94 last season. innings. Trumbo put the Angels up 5-2 in the eighth with “There’s nothing much like playoff hockey,” Hurdle They’re 22-9 in their last 31 games. Zach McAllister (4-3) his team-leading 11th homer. Ervin Santana (3-4), who said. “We’re just getting into the spirit.” Utility allowed three runs in five innings. He hasn’t allowed more spent 12 seasons in the Angels’ organization before being infielder Brandon Inge took things one step farther than three earned runs in any of his nine starts this year. traded during the off-season to the Royals, struck out eight before the game, arriving in the Pirates’ clubhouse Ryan Dempster (2-5) gave up four runs in three innings in without a walk, but allowed five runs and eight hits - four dressed in a full hockey uniform and rollerblades. his third straight poor start for Boston. Every Cleveland of which were homers. Chris Iannetta hit one in the fifth. “It’s something fun, something to change things up starting batter had a hit and all except Jason Kipnis scored. The Royals scored on ground outs by Alex Gordon and a little bit during a long season. Plus, we’ve got to Carlos Santana reached base five times with a single and Mike Moustakas. Robert Coello got the final out for his first support our boys,” said Pirates second baseman Neil four walks. big league save. — AP Walker, a Pittsburgh-area native. The Pirates won for the 11th time in 13 games as Andrew TIGERS 7, TWINS 6 McCutchen had three hits and two RBIs. Prince Fielder bounced a tiebreaking single off Jared Leadoff hitter Starling Marte singled and scored Burton’s glove in the eighth inning, leading the Detroit in each of the first two innings as Pittsburgh built an Tigers to a 7-6 come-from-behind victory over the early 4-0 lead. The Pirates moved a season-best 11 Minnesota Twins on Thursday night. Omar Infante started games over .500. “We’re playing good baseball and the inning with a single and was bunted to second by Torii I don’t think we’ve reached our ceiling yet,” Hunter. Ron Gardenhire then ordered Miguel Cabrera McCutchen said. “The pitching has been good all intentionally walked, but Fielder foiled the plan with a year but the hitting has kind of been up and down. grounder that Burton (0-2) deflected past second baseman The bats are eventually going to come around and Brian Dozier. Cabrera drove in three runs, including his we should be even better when that happens.” The sixth homer in four games. Cabrera has now matched a Cubs lost their fourth in a row. career high by homering in four straight games. He has Edwin Jackson (1-7) gave up two runs in the first also walked five times in the four games, and Fielder has inning and two more in the second. He gave up six followed all five with hits, driving in seven more runs. hits and struck out six in three innings and has a Joaquin Benoit (1-0) pitched a perfect inning of relief, while 6.11 ERA through 10 starts. “I got beat with men on Jose Valverde pitched the ninth for his fifth save. base with balls up in the zone,” Jackson said. “I had some times when I got it down but in vital situations BLUE JAYS 12, ORIOLES 6 when I needed to keep the ball down I wasn’t doing Edwin Encarnacion hit his fifth career grand slam, JP that, and that pretty much sums up the game.” Arencibia homered and drove in four runs and the Toronto Jackson is in his first season with the Cubs after sign- Blue Jays beat Baltimore 12-6 on Thursday night, spoiling ing a four-year, $52 million contract over the winter the debut of Orioles right-hander Kevin Gausman. Brandon as a free agent. Morrow (2-3) allowed six runs and a season-high 10 hits in “I think at times he tries too hard to justify his seven-plus innings. He walked one and struck out five. contract and overthrows,” Chicago manager Dale Brett Cecil and Brad Lincoln each worked one inning of Sveum said. “I think he needs to relax and just be scoreless relief as Toronto won for the third time in four Edwin Jackson, the guy we liked enough to sign.” games. Baltimore’s Chris Davis hit his major league leading Reliever Vin Mazzaro (3-0) pitched 2 1-3 scoreless 15th home run, a leadoff shot in the fourth. Nick Markakis innings. He replaced starter Jeanmar Gomez in the and Adam Jones hit back-to-back homers off Morrow in BOSTON: Jacoby Ellsbury #2 of the Boston Red Sox fourth inning following a rain delay of 1 hour, 47 the eighth but it wasn’t enough for the Orioles, who lost misses a fly ball in center field against the Cleveland minutes. “I knew about a half-hour before the delay for the seventh time in nine games. Baltimore’s Manny Indians during the game on May 23, 2013 at Fenway ended that I was going to come in to pitch, but you Machado went 3 for 4 with three doubles, boosting his Park in Boston, Massachusetts. — AFP never know how the long the delay might last, so I tried to stay as prepared as possible,” Mazzaro said. “I felt like I was ready to go.” Gomez allowed one run and three hits in 3 2-3 Olympics - Reforms can innings. “I thought I had really good stuff today and control of all my pitches,” Gomez said. “Then it start- ed raining hard and that was it. I think I could have save ‘magical’ wrestling pitched a lot longer but I’m frustrated about it. You can’t do anything about the rain.” Jason Grilli PARIS: The widespread reforms introduced to the his- after taking a terrible blow.” Wrestling, which is one of pitched a 1-2-3 ninth inning and is a perfect 19-for- toric sport of wrestling gives it a very strong chance of the few sports to have transcended both the ancient 19 in save opportunities. Marte led off the bottom regaining its place in the Olympics, the newly-elected Olympics and the modern Games, will face the first hur- of the first inning with a single, stole second with president of the International Federation of Associated dle at regaining their spot next Wednesday. The IOC one out and scored on McCutchen’s single. Wrestling Styles (FILA), Nenad Lalovic said. The 55-year- Executive Board meets in St Petersburg, Russia, to decide McCutchen stole second and scored on Michael old Serb has been the driving force behind the changes which sports to recommend to the wider IOC member- McKenry’s single. both to the rules and the statute since replacing Raphael ship at its Session in Buenos Aires in early September Marte singled in the second and scored on Travis Martinetti who resigned following the surprise decision with eight sports up for consideration. Wrestling, Snider’s triple that rolled to the 410-foot notch in in February by the Executive Board of the International though, is widely expected to make the short list with left-center field. McCutchen added his second RBI Olympic Committee to drop the sport from the 2020 squash the closest rival having fought an effective cam- single. The Cubs got a run in the fourth when David Games. paign.However, Lalovic, who among other things has DeJesus led off with a double and scored on A keen yachtsman, he told AFP in an exclusive inter- forced through a measure where there will be a woman Anthony Rizzo’s grounder. The Cubs had runners on view conducted by telephone from FILA headquarters in vice-president for the first time when new elections are the corners when two outs when play was halted, Lausanne, Switzerland, that wrestling had resurfaced held next year, said he is confident they will prevail in the but Mazzaro got Welington Castillo to hit an inning- after a terrible period. “When you sink it is only when you final showdown. “I am confident. I believe strongly we ending groundout after the delay. Chicago cut the hit the bottom that you can rise again,” said Lalovic. “We will succeed, though, of course it’s always possible one deficit to 4-2 in the seventh with Darwin Barney sin- (wrestling) have proved that. We are now super positive can lose. —AFP gling in Castillo, who had walked. — AP SPORTS SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 Stout Chiefs defense shuts down Crusade

HAMILTON: A desperate defensive effort by he blocked a Dan Carter clearing kick and the Waikato Chiefs paved the way for a 28-19 captain Craig Clarke scored the second when win over the Canterbury Crusaders in a cliff- he overran Tom Marshall as he tried to clear hanger Super 15 clash between the top New the ball. Zealand sides yesterday. The Chiefs never But not every Chiefs plan was successful. A cracked when they were pinned on their own gamble early in the game when they rejected line for 10 minutes midway through the sec- a defensive penalty in favor of taking on the ond spell as the Crusaders looked to build on Crusaders scrum without injured All Blacks a one-point lead. From there, the defending prop Owen Franks cost them three points. champion Chiefs worked their way back up The Crusaders pack remained a potent force field to produce a converted try and a penalty with replacement frontrower Nepo Laulala in the final 10 minutes to seal the outcome. and they won a scrum penalty which Tom The penalty, on the stroke of fulltime, also Taylor slotted between the uprights. The DETROIT: Henrik Zetterberg #40 of the Detroit Red Wings celebrates an empty net goal denied the Crusaders a bonus point after they Crusaders much-vaunted forward power pro- by teammate Daniel Cleary #11 late in the third period while playing the Chicago had led for much of the second half in the duced their sole first-half try when they drove Blackhawks in Game Four of the Western Conference Semifinals. — A FP opening match of round 15. The Chiefs have deep into Chiefs’ territory with a series of now stretched their lead to 10 points over the pick-and-goes before Matt Todd crossed the Crusaders in the New Zealand conference and line. they also remain firmly on top of the overall But the eventual match-winning try came Red Wings top standings ahead of the Northern Bulls and from a rare Chiefs victory in the bruising for- ACT Brumbies. wards battle. From a penalty with 10 minutes The Crusaders stay in fifth place overall but remaining, the Chiefs again opted for a scrum are in danger of slipping out of the top six as over a shot at goal and moved the ball wide Blackhawks 2-0 the remaining matches are played out over for Bundee Aki to score. Cruden, who had the the weekend. In the first half, the Chiefs snaf- better of his All Blacks senior Carter through- fled two tries from charge downs in what out the match, landed the conversion in a Kings put Sharks on brink with 3-0 win scrum-half Tawera Kerr-Barlow said was a match haul of 18 points. Taylor scored 14 rehearsed move to crowd the Crusaders’ kick- points for the Crusaders from a conversion DETROIT: Jakub Kindl scored on a power play in with a chance to wrap up this all-California series. ers. The first try went to Aaron Cruden when and four penalties. — AFP the second period, Daniel Cleary had an empty- Quick made 24 saves in his seventh career playoff net goal and Jimmy Howard made 27 saves to shutout, and the Kings moved to the brink of their help the Detroit Red Wings hold on for a 2-0 victo- second straight trip to the Western Conference ry over the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday finals with a 3-0 victory Thursday night. Anze RugbyU: Northampton stars night, putting the NHL’s best team during the reg- Kopitar and Slava Voynov scored, and Jeff Carter ular season on the brink of elimination. After los- added an empty-net goal as the Kings won their aiming for a dream farewell ing Game 1, the seventh-seeded Red Wings have 13th consecutive home game in emphatic fash- surged into control of the second round series by ion, claiming a 3-2 series lead. Quick won his 27th LONDON: Northampton are hoping to give for the 80 minutes.”I’ll be fully focused on handing Chicago its first three-game losing streak postseason game, taking sole possession of the their departing props Soane Tonga’uiha and Leicester and I’m sure the rest of the boys will of the year. Game 5 is today night in Chicago. The franchise record from Kelly Hrudey. Brian Mujati the perfect send-off by winning be exactly the same.” Second row Courtney Blackhawks had a power play with 4:45 left in the The Conn Smythe Trophy winner shut out the their first English Premiership title against Lawes added: “We’ve got so many talented game when Kindl was called for hooking, but they Sharks for the second time in the series, yet Quick Leicester at Twickenham today. The duo, who players in our team that if we turn up and per- couldn’t tie the game. scoffed at any suggestion he’s responsible for the have both agreed to join French club Racing form, we’re hard to stop. “The commentators Kings’ abrupt reversal of this series’ momentum Metro at the end of the season, would love to have said that and we proved at Saracens that RANGERS 4, BRUINS 3 OT after the Sharks appeared to take control in San bow out on a high against a Leicester team who we can be a handful for anyone.” This will be Chris Kreider steered in a pass from Rick Nash Jose. “We came out with a purpose,” said Quick, are in their ninth successive final. the first time the two East Midlands rivals have 7:03 into overtime, and the New York Rangers who has stopped 313 of 330 shots in the postsea- However, Leicester demolished reigning met in English rugby’s showpiece game and stayed alive in the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 4-3 son. “We knew what was on the line tonight, and champions Harlequins in their semi-final and Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill have unfinished business at English rugby’s admits his side dare not come second best.”Of victory over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night. I’m lucky to play with guys who care so much headquarters having lost the last two finals. The all the sides in the league that this club doesn’t New York, which erased 2-0 and 3-2 deficits in the about winning. Top to bottom, I thought every- Tigers are clear favorites but Tonga’uiha, who want to lose to, it would certainly be critical Game 4 matchup in the Eastern body played well, but it’s just three wins. We was part of an equally impressive semi-final win Northampton,” he said. “There’s no point pre- Conference semifinals, still trails the series 3-1. The know that doesn’t mean anything.” Game 6 is over Saracens, is adamant his side can cause an tending otherwise, and I am sure they would Rangers will need to win again today in Boston to tomorrow night at the Shark Tank. upset this weekend. Tonga’uiha said: “I’m sure I say they probably feel the same way. force a Game 6 back in Madison Square Garden. Quick has three shutouts in this postseason can speak on Brian’s behalf as well when I say “Grand Finals are special every time you play The Rangers, who were outshot 40-32, won a alone, adding to his club record of seven playoff that we didn’t want the semi-final to be our last in them but, with the local rivalry and the history faceoff deep in their zone, and Nash rushed the shutouts, yet nobody thought this latest zero game for the Saints. “The boys were right that we have, both on and off the field, it gives it puck up ice. He stopped above the right circle and was his best number of the postseason. The behind us for that game and a lot of guys a bit of an extra edge. “The set-pieces will be fed a hard pass in front that Kreider skated into Sharks lamented their lackluster effort, particu- stepped up and led from the front. huge. It always is against Saints, and it should be and tipped past Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask for his larly from the star players whose dominance had “It was a massive achievement and some- a great battle in the scrum and line-out.” After first goal of the playoffs. allowed San Jose to even the series with two thing I really enjoyed. It’s full credit to the squad today’s final the teams will disperse, with six of straight wins and three straight games of largely for that performance and hopefully that’s the Leicester squad on British and Irish Lions KINGS 3, SHARKS 0 superior play. “They tested us for the first four something we can repeat today. “I’ve always duty in Australia along with Northampton cap- The Los Angeles Kings haven’t lost a home games, and I like the way we responded,” Kings said that once we get into the knockout stages tain Dylan Hartley. Northampton’s Tom Wood game in two months, and the San Jose Sharks defenseman Matt Greene said. Antti Niemi anything can happen and we’ve proven that in will lead England’s two-Test tour to Argentina gave nothing close to the effort necessary to snap stopped 26 shots for the Sharks, who have the semi-final as well as in the past. “Come the where he will be joined by club mates Lawes, the champions’ streak in Game 5. Add in another played more than 96 minutes without a goal final though you’ve got to put the past behind Luther Burrell, Stephen Myler, Ben Foden and flawless performance by Jonathan Quick, and it’s since they appeared to be seizing the series mid- you again and focus on what’s in front of you Lee Dickson. — AFP clear why the Kings are going back on the road way through Game 4. — Agencies England turn to youth to take on Barbarians

LONDON: A potential glimpse of England’s rugby future will Both wingers are uncapped as Christian Wade, who on rience but the starting XV still boasts nine players aged 24 or be on display at Twickenham tomorrow when a fledgling Wednesday was voted player of the year and young player of under. “We’ve selected a young and exciting side and this is a team, including three uncapped starters and another six on the year by his fellow Premiership professionals, starts on the great opportunity for these players who have shone in the the bench, take on the Barbarians. Players involved in the right and London Irish’s Marland Yarde on the left. Flanker Premiership this season to step up in front of passionate home British and Irish Lions tour and today’s Premiership final Matt Kvesic is the other uncapped starter in a team captained crowd at Twickenham,” Lancaster said in a statement. “Taking between Leicester and Northampton were not available for by Bath hooker Rob Webber. Attacking flyhalf Freddie Burns on a very experienced Barbarians team is the first challenge the non-cap match (1200GMT) and coach Stuart Lancaster has starts and razor-fast Gloucester back Jonny May is among the they face this summer with matches in Uruguay and Argentina used the situation to have a look at many of the youngsters replacements, giving a real fizz to the squad. to follow and this sequence of games is a key part of our knocking on the door of the senior team. Mike Brown, Joe Launchbury and Alex Corbisiero add expe- development as a team.”- Reuters SPORTS SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 Rebels claim Waratahs scalp

MELBOURNE: The Melbourne Rebels put a big dent in The Rebels began bullishly, with English finishing “That was an extremely tough game, and I am the New South Wales Waratahs’ Super 15 playoff hopes off a passing rush following a turnover win in the 10th absolutely rapt with how the boys held on there,” with a resilient 24-22 home victory yesterday. The minute. But the Waratahs hit back near halftime when Rebels’ skipper Scott Higginbotham said. “Our defense Rebels came from 16-13 down to beat the better- new Wallaby selection Israel Folau latched onto has improved in leaps and bounds since the start of the resourced Waratahs for the first time in their six Lachlan Mitchell’s risky pass close to the Rebels try-line season, so we’re very proud of that.” encounters and claim their second big scalp in as many to score an intercept and his eighth try in his first Super Waratahs skipper Dave Dennis blamed a poor atti- weeks after upsetting South Africa’s Western Stormers Rugby season since switching from rugby league. tude by his team for the defeat. “We didn’t have the 30-21. Berrick Barnes was in immaculate goalkicking touch, right attitude going into the game and it showed. The Winger Tom English was the two-try hero with his landing a conversion and four penalties from as many first half we were poor and discipline in the second half second effort clinching victory for the Rebels five min- attempts to have the Waratahs in front 19-13 shortly hurt us as well, it was a really disappointing result,” utes from fulltime. The Waratahs, who came into the after halftime. Dennis said. “We came down here probably thinking match after winning their past three games, had a But the dogged Rebels, minus their big names everything was going to happen for us. We had had a chance to win but replacement back Brendan James O’Connor and Kurtley Beale, kept working hard couple of good wins and we thought things would McKibbin narrowly missed a penalty goal attempt in and drew level at 19-19 off two Jason Woodward flow on from that.” The Rebels have another Australian the final minutes. It was Melbourne’s fourth win of the penalties. McKibbin put the Waratahs in front with a derby against the Queensland Reds in Brisbane next season and leaves them seven points behind the third- penalty but the Rebels got the winning break with week, while the Waratahs face the Canterbury placed Waratahs in the Australian conference. English’s second try after a line break from Woodward. Crusaders in Christchurch. — AFP

Photo of the day Samoa out; US, Canada in for new-look Pacific Cup

TOKYO: Defending champions Samoa have opted expanded squad. Japan coach Eddie Jones, the for- out but the United States and Canada will debut mer Australia handler, is also preparing for the two this week in a new-look Pacific Nations Cup which home Tests against Wales next month. “After the is extending far, far beyond its original boundaries. successful Asian Five Nations, we have now picked The newcomers will face off in Edmonton, Canada a squad that we believe can win the Pacific Nations today in what is seen as a boost for rugby’s “sec- Cup and beat Wales. We’re looking forward to hav- ond tier” nations as the sport expands outside its ing Horie, Leitch and Tanaka back after the Super traditional heartlands. Also today, but 15 time 15,” said Jones. “We realize that we need to keep zones away in Yokohama, Japan will open the tour- working very hard on our strength and condition- nament against Tonga. Five of the round-robin ing and the way we play the game.” event’s 10 games, which wrap up on June 23, are in Much attention on the opening weekend, how- Japan. ever, will focus on Edmonton, where Canada and Of the original contestants in the tournament, the United States will use their North American which started in 2006, Fiji also remain. However, derby as preparation for upcoming 2015 World Samoa are skipping it in favor of a tougher tourna- Cup qualifiers. Canada coach Gareth Rees called it ment in South Africa featuring the Springboks, “a top-notch opportunity to tune up for World Cup Scotland and Italy. Japan, fresh from cantering to a qualifying”. “It’s very important. First of all, it’s a sixth straight Asian Five Nations title, have bol- cup in itself. We want to lift the trophy at the end stered their squad with the recall of senior interna- of the day. It’s important to get our team playing tionals in hooker Shota Horie, scrumhalf Fumiaki well together and winning these matches,” said Tanaka and naturalised flanker Michael Leitch. Rees. Games will also be played in Fiji’s Lautoka, Horie and Tanaka have both started games in Nepean and Kingston in Canada and Carson, recent weeks for Super 15’s Melbourne Rebels and California, before the tournament ends with two Chris Pfeiffer performs tricks at Red Bull Starts It 2013 in Zarnesti, Otago Highlanders, respectively, while Leitch has double-headers in Nagoya and Tokyo during the Romania on May 11th, 2013. — www.redbullcontentpool.com been in New Zealand as part of the Waitako Chiefs’ final week. — AFP Lions seeking for elusive Test success in Australia

SYDNEY: The formidable British and Irish Lions fly out next week Wales’s Sam Warburton, the youngest Lions skipper in history. And top of them. We believe we have put together a group that can cater seeking their first series win in 16 years against an Australia team who Gatland, who has seen his countryman Graham Henry and England’s for both elements.” Gatland has selected 15 Welshmen in his squad, are defending a proud record in what has become a classic fixture. Clive Woodward, both World Cup-winning coaches, fail with the Wales’s largest Lions representation in 36 years. England has provided The cream of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales have not won a Lions, is in no doubt about the size of the task ahead. “There is no 10 players, while there are nine Ireland players and three from Test series since defeating South Africa in 1997 and on their last visit question it is one hell of a challenge,” Gatland said. “Playing in the Scotland. to Australia, they were edged out 2-1 in a titanic encounter with John southern hemisphere is one of rugby’s hardest challenges.” Deans, 53, Gatland’s biggest task is choosing the players and combinations Eales’s Wallabies. Such is the intensity of Lions series that Australia is the first foreigner to coach Australia, while Gatland, 49, follows from the 37-strong touring party. He has six tour games to fine-tune coach Robbie Deans warned his players that the quadrennial north- Henry as the Lions’ second overseas coach having led Wales to two before the opening Test in Brisbane on June 22. The physically impos- south hemisphere clash would go beyond anything they have known Grand Slams and the 2011 Rugby World Cup semi-finals. ing squad of 16 backs and 21 forwards is also steeled by the experi- before. “It will be a contest that our blokes have never experienced,” While Australia are the world’s number two Test team, Deans has ence of two former Lions captains in Ireland’s Paul O’Connell and said Deans. “Some of our blokes have experienced World Cup rugby, had a rocky build-up with playmaker Kurtley Beale entering rehab for Brian O’Driscoll, who is on his fourth successive Lions tour. This is only but I tell you the ante goes up even further.” The Lions begin their itin- alcohol problems and dangerous winger Digby Ioane undergoing a the third Lions series in Australia that has been decided over three erary against the Barbarians in Hong Kong on June 1 before arriving in knee operation this week. Deans has also drawn fire for omitting mer- Tests, and its predecessors were both tight affairs. Perth to begin a 10-game journey, including three Tests, which trav- curial flyhalf Quade Cooper from his initial 25-man squad, which The Lions clinched the 1989 series by a single point, when they erses Australia and ends in Sydney’s Stadium Australia on July 6. includes only one scrum-half so far in Will Genia. But Deans can call on prevailed 19-18 in the final Test in Sydney, while in 2001 the Wallabies Both the Lions and Australia are coached by New Zealanders, with a hard-working pack, led by lock James Horwill, and some clever won a thrilling decider 29-23 secured by a stolen lineout throw in the Wales’s Warren Gatland appointed as the tourists’ second foreign backs in Genia, James O’Connor, Adam Ashley-Cooper and Israel final seconds. New Zealand’s Henry later admitted that the 2001 trip handler and Deans with the Wallabies since 2008. Despite the talent Folau, a rugby league and Australian Rules football convert. “We to Australia burned him out before he recovered and went on to plot at their disposal, the Lions have failed to win Test series and memories understand what’s coming, we understand the Lions have a very the All Blacks’ victory at the 2011 World Cup. “I now know that the endure of Australia 2001, when they missed out in a gripping decider. experienced and physical combination, they have a particular pres- position of Lions head coach is the most demanding in Test rugby,” A thumping 3-0 loss to New Zealand in 2005, and a 2-1 reverse against ence in the backline,” said Deans. “So we have to deal with that and Henry reflected. The Tests take place in Brisbane on June 22, South Africa in 2009 has put the onus on the team, captained by then bring something of our own in terms of getting up and over the Melbourne on June 29 and Sydney on July 6. — AFP SPORTS SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

Tennis Two years on Li still stands alone

PARIS: Li Na’s momentous French Open title win of 2011 was flagging interest in the United States. “She is the most important Carlos Rodriguez, the former coach of Grand Slam winner expected to open the floodgates for Asian-and in particular player of the decade for me,” Allaster said recently. “Tennis in the Justine Henin, who has been helping the Chinese player since Chinese-players in world tennis. Two years on, little has changed Asian-Pacific region has a lot of growth potential and the region last summer. Asked in Madrid what he brought to her game Li with sixth-ranked Li being the only Asian player currently ranked could have nine tournaments next year if the season-ending replied: “I have been training so hard with Carlos. “I was so hap- inside the woman’s global top 30. Compatriot Peng Shuai is WTA Championships is moved to Singapore or China’s Tianjin.” py he could come to my team to coach me. I think for me, he’s 34th, Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-Wei is 42nd and Ayumi Morita of Japan As it turned out, Singapore won that contest to host the not only tennis coach. I think after I was working with him I feel is one step further back. biggest tournament in the women’s game outside of the four much stronger in my mind and also much stronger on the India’s Sania Mirza is now more focused on her doubles play, Grand Slam events. Li’s season to date has been somewhat of a court.” “I have to listen to him because I trust him a lot.” On top while at 35 years old Tamarine Tanasugarn is firmly in the twi- roller-coaster, starting with a magnificent run into the final of of that Li believes that she will come into Paris with less of the light of her career. Li apart, none of the Asian contingent is the Australian Open in January where she lost to Victoria spotlight on her compared to last year when she was the expected to progress far in the draw on the claycourts at Roland Azarenka after an epic battle which left her with a badly defending champion. “Last year in the French Open I didn’t Garros and that will come as a blow to the head of the Women’s sprained left ankle. That injury sidelined her until March when have any experience for being a defending champion. So, you Tennis Association (WTA) Stacey Allaster, who has identified Asia she returned to action at Miami, losing to Serena Williams in the know, I was feeling like, how you say, a little bit too much. If you as the bright future of tennis. Allaster, who has recognized the quarter-finals. Moving onto clay, Li lost in the final at Stuttgart to do something always the camera was next to you. “So I think importance of Li to the sport, is pulling out all the stops to com- Maria Sharapova, but she then went out early in both Madrid this year should be better because I’m not the defending cham- mercialize the women’s game on the continent, especially with and Rome. Key to her chances in Paris will be the presence of pion.” —AFP Nadal and Djokovic on Paris semi-final collision course

PARIS: Defending French Open champion I definitely feel like I’m getting into that Italian Open because of illness last Rafael Nadal was drawn in the same half zone that I have always wanted to be in, week, but she is now fine. “I have been as world number one Novak Djokovic yes- and I feel a lot better about it.” practicing for almost five or six days terday as the Spanish claycourt machine Sharapova’s main threat could come now, which has been nice,” she told a chases a record eighth title at Roland from Australian ninth seed Samantha news conference. “I haven’t been back Garros. Third seed Nadal, who beat Stosur, the 2010 runner-up, in a possi- since my victory (at the French Open), Djokovic in last year’s final, could face the ble quarter-final. Sharapova, who was so it has been nice to be able to prac- Serbian in the semis. “But is not in the first drawn against Taipei’s Hsieh Su-Wei in tice on the courts when it’s quiet and round, no?,” Nadal joked when asked how the first round, withdrew from the be back on centre court.” —Reuters he felt about his potential meeting with Djokovic in a news conference. Nadal has won five titles on clay this season after Clock ticks for next missing out on more than seven months of tennis, sitting out of Wimbledon, the US Open and the Australia Open. golden generation “If you can ask me if I win one grand slam during the whole year or win six tour- PARIS: If you desire world domination in ten- Instead, his career often makes the front naments like I already did, I will choose nis, best get an early start as Novak Djokovic, as well as the back pages with a succession of PARIS: Spain’s Rafael Nadal (left), seven-time champi- win six tournaments,” he said. Nadal plays Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have proved. run-ins with the law often accompanying on of the French tennis Open, and Russia’s Maria Daniel Brands of Germany in the first So, for the likes of Grigor Dimitrov, Milos under-whelming performances on court. Sharapova, a two-time winner and the world number round and could face home hope Richard Raonic and Bernard Tomic-often touted as Sections of the Australian media dubbed him two, pose as they take part in the draw of the Tennis Gasquet in a potential quarter-final clash the best of the next generation in men’s ten- ‘Tomic the Tank Engine’ after his meek, sec- as the French men look to end a 30-year nis-the clock is already ticking. Nadal was just ond round capitulation to Andy Roddick at Women’s Single of the Roland-Garros tennis tourna- 19 when he burst onto the scene with a first the 2012 US Open. And his Roland Garros ment yesterday at the Roland-Garros stadium in Paris, grand slam title drought. Djokovic, who opens his Paris campaign against Belgian French Open title in 2005. Djokovic was 20 build-up has already been derailed by his two days ahead of the beginning of the event. —AFP David Goffin, is also lined up for a possible when he made his breakthrough at the 2008 father John Tomic facing a criminal trial for third-round match against talented Australian Open while Federer had his first of allegedly assaulting his son’s training partner Bulgarian youngster Grigor Dimitrov. 17 Grand Slam titles wrapped up at in Madrid. Business ‘good’ Swiss Roger Federer, who has a Wimbledon in 2003 when he was 21. Elsewhere, Canada’s Raonic at 22 years record 17 grand slam titles to his name, Bulgarian tyro Dimitrov, the world num- old, and 16 in the world, has four titles but all has a smooth-looking path until a ber 28, is already 22, has been dubbed ‘Baby on hard courts while Polish wildman Jerzy for Sharapova potential quarter-final against French Fed’ because of a similar playing style to the Jancowicz, also 22 and at 23 in the world, cur- great Swiss and is dating Maria Sharapova. rently lacks the subtlety that a two-week PARIS: Maria Sharapova is hoping that her new role as a business- sixth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. World number two Andy Murray pulled out But Dimitrov has yet to win a singles title and Grand Slam event requires. “I’m always look- woman will provide her with the inspiration to add to her haul of has had made just one final, losing to world ing around for these guys. Dimitrov has finally four Grand Slam titles. The 26-year-old Russian, the French Open with back problems and Argentine Juan Martin del Potro, ranked seventh, number two Andy Murray in Brisbane this taken a step in the right direction, I think he defending champion, arrived early in Paris to attend the French year. But there are signs he could make an was certainly top-five material,” said American launch of her SugarPova Candy Collection, which her official web- is also missing from the draw due to ill- ness. On the women’s side, defending impact at the French Open which starts great John McEnroe, who won his first major, site describes as “a premium candy line that reflects the fun, fash- tomorrow. He pushed Nadal to three sets in the 1979 US Open, at 20. ionable, sweet side of international tennis sensation Maria champion Maria Sharapova of Russia, the second seed, is in the same half as the quarter-finals in Monte Carlo this year “It’s pretty clear to see when you watch Sharapova”. before achieving his biggest win, a second the sport that it appears to be more difficult It’s her first truly independent venture into the world of big Belarussian third seed Victoria Azarenka. round triumph over world number one than ever for a teenager, even someone in business following the record $70million endorsement deal she Djokovic in Madrid. their early 20s, to break through the way signed with sportswear giant Nike in 2010 and it is one she believes World number one Serena Williams could meet Agnieszka Radwanska of After breaking into the top 100 in January Becker did, Wilander at the French, Sampras. can help her on the courts. “I like to have other things to think 2011, it wasn’t until almost two years later that Nadal may be the last guy as a teenager. “It about, because when you get on the court you have a fresh per- Poland, the fourth seed, in the semi- finals. Williams will take on Georgia’s Dimitrov broke the top 50. “The huge expecta- does seem because of the physicality of the spective on your game and what you need to do,” Sharapova said tions that weighed on him didn’t help,” said game, it’s difficult to see those 18, 19, 20- in a press conference at Roland Garros.”I think if I was thinking Anna Tatishvili in the first round on her way to a potential quarter-final match- Patrick Mouratoglou, who was Dimitrov’s year-olds be able to jump and win majors.” about cross courts and down the line (all the time), I’d be pretty coach until last summer. Dimitrov is clear It’s a tough ask to break the ongoing Grand depressed. “It’s nice to have different elements. Everyone has differ- up with former world number one Caroline Wozniacki who will start about his gameplan for 2013. “The objective Slam stranglehold-of the last 39 majors, 34 ent interests and passions. Obviously my candy brand has been a this year was to remain in good health. If I can have been shared by Federer (17), Nadal (11) big business for me, an important one, one I have worked on for against Britain’s Laura Robson. Asked if she felt as good as in her golden years, do that, then making the top 20 will be in my and Djokoic (six). But there is always hope. almost three years now. “It’s one big learning experience, and I feel hands.” Australia’s Tomic, just 20 and the Murray was 25 when he won his first-and so like every day I’m learning something new about it. Keeps me Williams told a news conference: “I think so. Just looking back at a few of world number 59, should be rubbing shoul- far only-Grand Slam trophy at the 2012 US going and entertained. I get to work with many different people. ders with the likes of Dimitrov in the top 30. Open. —AFP It’s a big team effort as well. That’s been really nice.” —AFP my matches years ago and looking now, SPORTS SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 Molinari charges up leaderboard Palmer takes control WENTWORTH: Italy’s Francesco Molinari charged up the leaderboard in the second round of the European PGA with a 62 at Colonial Championship yesterday. The Ryder Cup star had a run of three birdies in four holes from the 11th to go to six-under par the same mark as overnight leader James Kingston who was American piles up 8 birdies in bogey-free display amongst the later starters. Molinari started the day at two- under par and although he dropped a shot at the first he had TEXAS: back-to-back birdies on the third and fourth to repair the American Ryan Palmer took Plaza Invitational in Fort Worth, Texas. The est first round ever recorded at the long damage. After another dropped shot on the tenth he turned advantage of ideal scoring conditions and 36-year-old Texan piled up eight birdies established PGA Tour event. on the style and was joined at six-under by South Africa’s local knowledge with a birdie fest as he on the way to a flawless eight-under-par Palmer, who began his round at the George Coetzee although a bogey at the 17th saw the latter charged into a one-shot lead in 62 on a relatively calm morning at iconic par-four 10th and ended it with a five-foot drop back and he signed for a two-under par 70. Thursday’s opening round of the Crowne Colonial Country Club, matching the low- birdie putt at the par-four ninth, surged to However a bogey at the 16th saw Molinari fall a shot the top of the leaderboard, a stroke in behind Kingston with two holes to play. Simon Khan, the win- front of compatriot John Rollins. Morgan ner here in 2010, was another player going well kick starting Hoffmann, a PGA Tour rookie who tied for his day with an eagle at the par-5 fourth and a birdie two at fifth at last week’s Byron Nelson the tenth to move to five under. Khan was joined in second Championship, carded a 64 to finish the spot by Scoland’s Marc Warren, Spain’s Alejandro Canizares day level with fellow American John and Mikko Illonen of Finland who opened up with two pars Peterson and Canadians David Hearn and after Thursday’s 67. Graham DeLaet. But some big names were struggling to make the cut with “I drove it almost perfect today,” Ian Poulter at six-over par through 16 holes and Luke Donald Colonial club member Palmer told Golf on the same score with two to play - a hangover from his first Channel after matching the 62s previ- day 78 and the defending champion is unlikely to feature at ously posted in the tournament’s the weekend. Sergio Garcia - the centre of a racism storm here opening round by Patrick Sheehan (in this week and playing with Donald - was level par for the tour- 2005), David Toms (2011) and Chez nament whilst a group further back Lee Westwood was play- Reavie (2011). “I hit the driver really ing solidly on two-under. well and when I got out of position, I England’s Andy Sullivan had the second hole in one of the hit some good shots. If you’re going to week when his tee shot on the second found the cup. Sullivan, hit driver a lot, you’d better hit it playing on a sponsor’s invitation, followed Jason Livermore straight and on a lot of these holes I whose 8-iron went straight in on the same hole on Thursday. was able to do that today. “When I hit Sullivan’s was his first ace in the European Tour and the 26th it within five or six feet, I made the in the history of the championship. Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, putt. I had a great day of putting and Graeme McDowell and Martin Kaymer were amongst the later drove it really good.” starters with McIlory attempting to make a move after a disap- Palmer, a three-times winner on the pointing 74 on the first day. —AFP PGA Tour whose most recent victory came at the 2010 Sony Open in Hawaii, kick-started his round at the par-four 14th with the first of four consecutive Boxing: Gloves off birdies. “I made about a 15, 20-footer on 14 which got me going and then I as Froch raises hit it close coming in,” he said after making five of his eight birdies from no Kessler bout stakes more than seven feet. “Then I made some good birdies on the front nine, LONDON: There had been a refreshing absence of vitriolic my back nine. It’s a golf course that I exchanges between Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler until this am just comfortable on,” added Palmer, week, when Froch declared he is prepared to “kill” his super- whose caddie James Edmondson is a middleweight rival in the ring today. Unusually in modern-day three-times club champion at Colonial. boxing, there had been no trash talk or insults thrown by “James and I play here numerous times.” Englishman Froch or his Danish opponent ahead of their world World number 13 Matt Kuchar, the title unification fight. That did not stop 18,000 tickets being highest-ranked player in this week’s field, sold in just three hours for the rematch at the O2 Arena in opened with a 65 to end the round level London. with fellow Americans Daniel Summerhays, There is also pay-per-view television to sell, but Froch’s out- Matt Every, Tommy Gainey, Josh Teater and burst at Wednesday’s pre-bout press conference was nonethe- Jordan Spieth. Zach Johnson, who beat fel- less shocking in its intensity. “On Saturday night, if I have to, I low American Jason Dufner by one shot to will kill this fucker,” Froch said. “Sorry about the language, but I clinch last year’s Crowne Plaza Invitational, will kill him. It sounds brutal, it sounds horrible, but that is what launched his title defence with a 69 while this means to me. I am going to leave it in the ring and when I Dufner returned a six-birdie 67. Former am smashing his face in, I am going to go for the kill. I am going Masters champions Charl Schwartzel of to go for the finish. “As much as we are friends and we are OK, South Africa and Angel Cabrera of who does he think he is, coming over here to my country after TEXAS: Ryan Palmer reacts after missing a putt on the fifth hole during Argentina opened with matching 70s while what I have done in the last three years and what he has done?” the first round of the Colonial golf tournament on Thursday, May 23, three-times major winner Vijay Singh of Fiji Froch later put the outburst down to his emotions “running 2013, in Forth Worth, Texas. —AP carded a 74. —Reuters high”, and his words were certainly at odds with the friendship that has developed between the boxers since they met on a promotional tour for the Super Six tournament in 2009. As part Ex-Giro winner Di Luca tests positive for EPO of that competition, Kessler out-pointed Froch in Denmark in April 2010, but afterwards they resumed contact. Froch even ROME: Former Giro d’Italia winner Danilo Di Luca has been provi- “Unfortunately this trust has been rewarded with an terrible mis- sent Kessler advice by text message on how to win his last fight, sionally suspended after testing positive for the banned blood take, which I still cannot comprehend,” Scinto added. a three-round stoppage of Northern Ireland’s Brian Magee, but booster erythropoietin (EPO), the International Cycling Union (UCI) Vini-Fantini’s main sponsor, Valentino Sciotti said: “What can I he says there is a difference between friendship and respect. said yesterday. Italian Di Luca, who had a previous positive for the say? I believed in the man and in the athlete and it is right that it “There’s respect before and after the fight, but not during same banned substance in 2009, failed an out-of-competition test should be me who takes the blame because I made a mistake. “I the fight,” Froch said. “I like Mikkel and there’s no animosity or taken on April 29 at his home, five days before the start of this year’s must ask forgiveness from the fans, the team, the other sponsors, needle there, so there’s no need for trash talk, rolling around on Giro. my partners and all the other cyclists who are racing in the Giro d’ the floor, or a slap in the face. This is a real fight, no hype need- The 2007 Giro champion has been sacked by his Vini-Fantini Italia fairly and honestly, and all those young athletes who will be ed. “When I’m hitting him in the face, I won’t stop until the ref team who said in a statement they would be seeking compensation shaken by this news.” Di Luca, 37, had joined the team last month. jumps in, his corner throws in the towel or he is left uncon- from the rider. “I’m devastated, I never wanted Di Luca in the team,” He also served a three-month ban in 2007 for his part in the ‘oil for scious on the floor. You don’t do that to your friends. Mikkel sports director Luca Scinto said. “We have built our group on the drugs’ scandal’ involving Italian sports doctor Carlo Santuccione. Di Kessler is not my friend. I’m going to smash him, simple as sacred values of cycling and we made the mistake of complying Luca was 26th overall in the Giro standings, 33:33 behind Italian that.” —AFP with a request, expressed many times, by our main sponsor...who leader Vincenzo Nibali after Thursday’s stage 18. The race finishes in asked us to have faith in an athlete who was a dear friend of his. Brescia tomorrow. —Reuters SPORTS SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

Platini warns of ‘dangers’ threatening sport Europa winners to get Champions League spot

LONDON: Michel Platini, the president of whether they are players, officials or sup- European football’s governing body porters. UEFA yesterday called for action against Platini also put UEFA’s Financial Fair the three dangers threatening football: Play scheme in the spotlight and spoke match-fixing, discrimination and financial of the worrying financial situation at cer- excess. “The main problem is match-fix- tain clubs in Europe. “To ensure that the ing and betting,” said Platini at the UEFA current system doesn’t collapse and the congress in London. “Our match moni- bubble doesn’t burst, it is the duty of toring systems and network of integrity UEFA to intervene and it shall be the duty officers in each country are of course use- of independent bodies to punish the few ful and even essential, but they are not clubs who have not realized that football enough. cannot live above its means,” he insisted. “We are not dealing with petty crimi- nals looking to make ends meet. “It CHAMPIONS LEAGUE seems that we are in some cases dealing Meanwhile, the winners of the Europa with mafia-type organizations that use League will automatically qualify for a some games, and therefore our sport, to place in the lucrative Champions League launder dirty money. “One game rigged from 2015, UEFA announced yesterday. is one match too many, as it strikes at the UEFA president said the winner of the soul of our sport, the very essence of the 2014-15 Europa League would play in the game. “I ask at least that each country 2015-16 Champions League. The move adopts a specific national law on match- comes in a bid to boost the appeal of the fixing to finally provide the necessary second-tier tournament. legal tools to condemn uncompromising “As was proven with this year’s mag- cheats.” In his speech, Platini also tackled nificent final, the UEFA Europa League “the recurrent problem of discrimination, has gone from strength to strength, but whether racial or sexual, which still exists we wanted to give clubs a further incen- in football.” tive, so that all of them play with a desire Beyond “prevention and education,” to win the competition,” Platini said. “By the French UEFA president also stressed guaranteeing access to the UEFA the need for sanctions. Later on, the Champions League for the winners, we LONDON: President Michel Platini (right) presents Britain’s Prince William, the UEFA Congress will vote on a resolution are convinced that the UEFA Europa Duke of Cambridge with a football during the UEFA Congress in central London strengthening sanctions against the per- League will increase its appeal for clubs yesterday. AFP petrators of racist acts in stadiums, and their supporters.” — Agencies —

Gibraltar finally gets Malaysia billionaire their UEFA membership eyes Cardiff City IPO KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian billionaire Vincent Tan is exploring an LONDON: Gibraltar was finally more. It then took the case to international competition. “We IPO of UK football team Cardiff City for as early as this year, people accepted as a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport don’t know what will happen in with knowledge of the matter said, in a deal that would follow the team’s recent promotion to the Premier League. A listing for the European soccer’s governing which ruled in its favor in 2011. the first international, we’re Welsh team would follow Manchester United’s debut on the New body UEFA yesterday after a 14- “This is a momentous moment untested,” said Latin, adding that York Stock Exchange last year, which raised $233.2 million in the year battle during which they for us,” Gareth Latin, president of Gibraltar hoped to set up a largest sports team IPO ever. The process is in its early stages, the faced fierce opposition from the Gibraltar FA, told the UEFA match for the August friendly people said, with details on the timing, size and listing venue subject Spain. UEFA’s annual Congress Congress. “It means we can now international date. to change. Tan, who owns 36.1 percent of the club and is the former voted in favor of a motion to begin the next chapter of Their teams will first feature in chairman of conglomerate Berjaya Group, has engaged at least one allow the tiny British colony to Gibraltar football.” Latin later told the qualifying competitions for investment bank to lead the process, according to the people. become their 54th member, reporters that Gibraltar would the 2014 European under-17 and The initial plan is to list the club on the Kuala Lumpur Stock meaning that their national team only recruit locally, rather than under-19 championships. Exchange, one of the people said. The deal may be completed as ear- and clubs are now eligible to play looking abroad for players with Gibraltar have been drawn ly as this year, another person said. Tan was unavailable for comment. in international competition. connections to the colony. “We against England, Armenia and He is Malaysia’s tenth richest person with a net worth of $1.3 billion, However, UEFA said Gibraltar have our own specific guidelines Ireland in the under-17 qualifiers according to Forbes. Malaysia’s IPO market, normally among Asia’s would be kept apart from Spain on who can play,” he said. “You and Croatia, Czech Republic and quietest, sprung to life last year with several multi-billion dollar list- in any competition in which they have to be a Gibraltar national, Cyprus in the under-19 tourna- ings, lifting the Kuala Lumpur exchange to rank No 4 globally for new both took part. you have to be born and bred ments. listing proceeds. “We always try to set things up there and have lived there for a Latin said the colony has a six- accordingly and to pre-empt certain number years. team national league, plus as 12- PROMOTION these situations,” UEFA president “We have been trying to team second division, and there Cardiff City were promoted to the English Premier League last Michel Platini, whose federation achieve this for 14 years, and we were 650 registered senior play- month after a 51-year absence. Its recent fortunes run counter to have recently kept Russia and want to give this to the Gibraltar ers in the territory, making entry another team owned by a Malaysian. Tony Fernandes, chief executive Georgia apart in competition community and we want to to the Champions League prelim- of Malaysia’s Air Asia, saw his Queens Park Rangers relegated from the draws, told reporters. Gibraltar, develop our kids so they have a inaries a possibility. Spain still Premier League in what he called a “tragic” season. Promotion to the which was granted provisional chance to become professionals. claims sovereignty over Gibraltar Premier League is estimated to be worth at least 120 million pounds membership last October, first “That is the main purpose and it after it was ceded to Britain ($181 million) to clubs over the next five years because of access to a applied for UEFA membership in has always been the main pur- under the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht. share of lucrative television rights deals. Cardiff were on the brink of 1999 but Spain led the opposi- pose.” He said Gibraltar hoped to An edict from the Consejo administration and escaped a winding-up petition at the High Court in 2010 after settling a 1.9 million pound tax bill. Tan has sought to tion to the request, threatening have a new 8,000 capacity Superior de Deportes to all sports increase the club’s marketability, especially in Asia, although his deci- to withdraw from any competi- national stadium ready in time federations in Spain says they sion to change their traditional blue kit to red sparked controversy. tions involving their tiny neigh- for the Euro 2016 qualifying com- should block any membership Nicknamed the Bluebirds, having played in blue for over 100 years, bor. The colony tried again in petition, when their national application from organizations in Cardiff now have a red badge featuring a dragon. —Reuters 2007 but was rebuffed once team is likely to make its debut in Gibraltar. — Reuters SPORTS SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013

When compatriots collide - one-nation finals

LONDON: Today’s all-German Champions League Simoni’s Inter and Sven Goran Eriksson’s Lazio in tense, tactical affair in which Juventus substitute and final between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich Paris. Ivan Zamorano put Inter ahead in the fifth future coach Antonio Conte come closest to breaking will be the 13th time that two teams from the same minute, with Javier Zanetti adding a second goal on the deadlock with a second-half header that hit the country have met in the deciding match of a major the hour before Brazilian superstar Ronaldo rounded crossbar. After 120 goalless minutes at Old Trafford in European competition. AFP Sports looks back at Lazio goalkeeper Luca Marchegiani and rolled in Manchester, Milan claimed a sixth European Cup some of the previous finals that have pitted compatri- Inter’s third to crown an exhilarating individual dis- when Andriy Shevchenko settled a penalty shoot-out ot clubs against each other: play. that had seen Milan goalkeeper Dida save from David 1980 UEFA Cup: Eintracht Frankfurt v Borussia M 2000 Champions League: Real Madrid v Valencia Trezeguet, Marcelo Zalayeta and Paolo Montero. Such was West Germany’s dominance of the 1979- Two years on from Ronaldo’s masterclass at the 2008 Champions League: United v Chelsea 80 UEFA Cup that they supplied all four semi-finalists, Parc des Princes, Raul capped an emphatic perform- The 2008 decider in Moscow was the highpoint with Moenchengladbach overcoming Stuttgart and ance by Madrid with a similar goal as his side over- of a period that saw English sides reach the final in Frankfurt seeing off Bayern Munich. The final proved whelmed La Liga counterparts Valencia up the road five successive seasons. After Cristiano Ronaldo’s a bitter experience for current Bayern coach Jupp at the Stade de France. Following a first-half header 26th-minute header was cancelled out by Chelsea Heynckes, whose Gladbach side lost out on away by Fernando Morientes and a spectacular Steve midfielder Frank Lampard, John Terry spurned an goals after winning the first leg 3-2 but losing 1-0 to a McManaman volley, Raul struck in the 75th minute to opportunity to give the London club victory in the late goal by young substitute Fred Schaub in settle the first one-country final in the history of the penalty shoot-out when he slipped on the slick Frankfurt. European Cup and seal Madrid’s eighth European turf and sent the ball against the post. Four penal- 1998 UEFA Cup: Inter Milan v Lazio crown. ties later, Edwin van der Sar saved from Nicolas There were four all-Italian UEFA Cup finals in the 2003 Champions League: AC Milan v Juventus Anelka, and United were European champions for 1990s, culminating in this clash between Luigi The first all-Italian Champions League final was a the third time. — AFP

SPANISH LEAGUE PREVIEW The Champions League Sociedad to bounce back against Madrid final coaches’ profiles

MADRID: Real Sociedad will have to recover quickly from the LONDON: With Borussia Dortmund taking on news that their coach Philippe Montanier will leave to join Rennes Bayern Munich at Wembley in today’s at the end of the season as they face Real Madrid in a crucial Champions League final, AFP sports looks at the match in their quest to claim the fourth and final Champions two coaches who have steered them to a first League place from La Liga. Montanier has decided to bring his all-German European cup final. JURGEN KLOPP (BORUSSIA DORTMUND) time in San Sebastian to an end after two seasons despite the Having coached Mainz 05 straight after retir- guarantee of European football next season, with his side current- ing in 2001, the 45-year-old cut his managerial ly ahead of Valencia thanks to a better head-to-head record with teeth by getting them into the Bundesliga just two games to go. before joining Borussia Dortmund in 2008 after However, striker Imanol Agirretxe believes they are capable of Bayern Munich opted for former Germany train- putting the Frenchman’s decision to the back of their minds and er Jurgen Klinsmann instead. With his unkempt concentrating tomorrow’s game. “The dressing room is calm, we appearance, quick wit and laid-back personality, are in a very important moment. The coach is conscious of just Klopp was better known as a TV pundit in how important it is and he has asked us to be calm,” he said on Germany before leading Dortmund to back-to- Thursday. “Right now we are concentrating on the game against back league titles, including the 2012 league Real Madrid with great desire and excitement. and cup double, with an impressive counter- pressing system. It’s a simple concept: when not “It will be the last game at Anoeta this season. We are playing in possession, Dortmund’s fleet-footed attackers for a lot and, moreover, against Real Madrid so I think the excite- put pressure on the opposition’s defense to win ment for this game is above any personal situation we have as a the ball back and any mistakes often result in a manager or a player.” Madrid are also adjusting to the news that goal. they will have a managerial change at the end of the season after Klopp’s system has served Borussia well, it was officially confirmed on Monday that Jose Mourinho will leading to record profits of 34.3 million euros depart the Spanish capital come the end of the campaign. ($44.5 million) announced last November. His Already guaranteed to finish second, Madrid having nothing to team lived up to Klopp’s nickname for them of play for, but Agirretxe is not buying talk that they will be de-moti- ‘Monsters of mentality’ for their never-say-die vated. “They are not playing for anything, but at the end of the spirit after scoring two goals in 70 seconds in the DORTMUND: A combo shows Dortmund’s head coach Juergen Klopp (left) and day they know how to play very well. dying stages to beat Malaga 3-2 in their home Bayern Munich’s head coach Jupp Heynckes. The all-German Champions quarter-final. A passionate character, Klopp League final between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich today marks the Real Madrid are Real Madrid, I have never seen them relaxed admitted he shut himself briefly away after hear- or taking a game easy and in this sense it will be a very difficult ing star midfielder Mario Goetze would join culmination of an intensifying and increasingly bitter rivalry. — AFP game.” Mourinho will at least be able to manage his penultimate Bayern Munich next season. 220 goals in 369 league games, the majority of cup, Heynckes was under pressure to deliver game in charge from the technical area as his two-game ban for But he later put on a dignified face by point- which were with his native Borussia silverware in his final season. being sent-off during Real’s defeat to Atletico Madrid in the Copa ing out to the press that Dortmund had done a Moenchengladbach. He moved into coaching With the additions of Brazil defender del Rey final last Friday only applies to domestic cup fixtures. similar thing to Moenchengladbach the season in 1979 at ‘Gladbach, but despite winning the Dante and Croatia’s Mario Mandzukic, Bayern Cristiano Ronaldo is also free to play as he too received a two- before when they signed Germany’s Marco Reus 1998 Champions League title during his single swept aside all rivals in the Bundesliga, taking game cup ban for his red card against Atleti, but their opponents for a fixed sum. Likewise, amid reports that strik- season at Real Madrid, he has enjoyed only lim- the title by an incredible 25-point margin, will be without their top-scorer Carlos Vela due to suspension. er Robert Lewandowski is set to leave Dortmund ited success as a coach-until this season. while setting or equalling 25 league records. Meanwhile, champions Barcelona continue their quest to at the end of the season, Klopp’s reassurances At 68, he is in his third stint as Bayern Heynckes will bow out after the German Cup match Madrid’s record tally of 100 points from last season when calmed supporters nerves. “Other mothers have coach, after leading the Bavarians to back-to- final against VfB Stuttgart on June 1 with his other beautiful sons who can also play football. back titles in 1988-89 and 1989-90, then team bidding to become the first German they visit Espanyol in the Catalan derby. The rivalry between the I’ll let you know if we should be nervous. Relax.” two sets of fans has already been demonstrated in the build-up to returned to help steer Bayern to a Champions team to win the treble of European, league While his English is not perfect, it is certainly League place when Jurgen Klinsmann was and cup titles. Heynckes will be replaced by the game with Espanyol supporters saying they will turn their good enough to work in the Premier League, sacked in 2009. After Bayern lost last season’s ex-Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola next month, backs when their own players salute Barca with a guard of honor having been linked to top clubs Arsenal, Chelsea Champions League final to Chelsea on penal- but with his side having dropped just 11 as they enter the pitch. Elsewhere, Valencia go in search of their and Manchester United, and the rumours will ties in their own stadium and, finishing run- points all season in the Bundesliga, it is hard fourth win in a row to keep the pressure on Real Sociedad when only intensify if he wins today’s final. For now, he ners-up to Dortmund in both the league and to see what improvements the Spaniard can they host Granada, who are not yet mathematically safe, at the is happy to see out his contract until 2016 and make. France wing Franck Ribery has said Mestalla. finish the job he has started at Dortmund. “For Heynckes’ guiding influence helped him With all 10 games taking place at the same time tomorrow me, this is the most interesting football project refind his game this season after struggling night, the first victims of relegation could also be confirmed as in the world,” he said. “In three or four years’ Match on TV under previous totalitarian boss Louis van time, if someone wants me, we can speak. But, Celta Vigo need to win at Valladolid to have any chance of saving (Local Timings) Gaal, while captain Philipp Lahm has said themselves. Mallorca will also be relegated if they fail to avoid for now, this is the best place for me.” Heynckes works “like a man 30 years defeat at Copa del Rey winners Atletico and, even if they do so, younger”. Suggestions Heynckes approached JUPP HEYCKNES (BAYERN MUNICH) UEFA Champions League the Islanders will still go down should Deportivo match their Guardiola for tips on how to beat Barcelona in A World Cup winner in 1974 and a European Dortmund v Bayern - 21:45 the semi-final were strongly rebuked: “Please result away to Malaga. And there will be an emotional farewell to Champion in 1972 with West Germany, respect me and my work. I’ve never consulted Athletic Bilbao’s San Mames stadium as, after 100 years, it hosts its Al Jazeera Sport 1 HD Heynckes finished his playing career as the Al Jazeera Sport +4 anyone or asked for advice. I do not need any- final competitive game when Los Leones host Levante. — AFP third-highest scorer in Bundesliga history with one to study an opponent.” —AFP UEFA boss warns of the ‘dangers’ threatening sport46 SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 MAY SATURDAY, SportsSports

LONDON: Some of the world’s top sixteen soccer freestylers demonstrate their skills at Trafalgar Square in London as Boussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich supporters arrive in London ahead of their Champions League final soccer match today. — AP Bayern, Dortmund target Champions League glory Euro final showcases Bundesliga’s rise LONDON: Germany’s Bundesliga will be on show money in the stadiums, the German league goes Chelsea in 2012), plus five runners-up from the for German football, also for the future for the to the world in today’s Champions League final from strength to strength. Bayern Munich presi- EPL. With huge wage bills, the success comes at a national team with a view to next year’s World when Bayern Munich take on Borussia Dortmund dent Uli Hoeness has said the attitude of clubs price with most clubs saddled with heavy debts Cup,” said Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes. “The in the first all-German European cup finale. towards their fans is the key difference between and foreign sugar daddies who can withdraw their Bundesliga is a product which has come from lots Wembley is set to be bathed in black, red and gold the leagues in England and Germany. financial support at any moment. of good work, with young, talented players and for the day and football fans will have a chance to “We could charge more than £102. Let’s say we In contrast, German teams abide by the princi- national players playing well. It makes German see why the crowds are turning to the German charged £300. We’d get £2m more in income but ple of “50+1 ownership”, which means members football so attractive at the moment.” league in their droves. With an average of 44,293, what’s £2m to us?,” said the Bayern boss. “In a must retain a majority stake in the club, while The Bundesliga is finding plenty of support the Bundesliga has the highest attendance figures transfer discussion, you argue about that sum for investors can own no more than 49 percent. The from UK fans, many of whom are lured to in the world with the cheapest season ticket for an five minutes. But the difference between £102 and rule is designed to allow investment opportunities Germany a few times per season by the prospect adult standing on the terraces costing 120 euros £300 is huge for the fan. “We do not think the fans while preventing an individual from having overall of good beer, cheap tickets and the ability to (155 dollars, 102 pounds) at Bayern’s Allianz Arena, are like cows, who you milk. Football has got to be control. “The biggest difference for the develop- stand on the terraces, which no longer exist in all- while Dortmund charge 187 euros (241 dollars, for everybody. “That’s the biggest difference ment of German football is the 50+1 rule, it means seater EPL stadiums. “Bundesliga prices are rough- 160 pounds) at the Westfalenstadion. between us and England.” Another key factor is clubs can make their own decisions,” said ly 50 percent less than you’d pay in the Premier In contrast, last season’s prices in the English the Bundesliga’s “50+1 ownership” rule, wich pro- Dortmund’s CEO Hans-Joachim Watkze. League, so even with the cost of a flight and a bed Premier League (EPL) saw the cheapest season tects German clubs from interference by big- “We can decide our own politics with good-val- in a hostel, it’s still often cheaper to go over,” Ben ticket at Arsenal set fans back 985 pounds (1,151 spending overseas backers. ue tickets. “The fact we can have 28,000 people in McFadyean, a committee member of the Borussia euros, 1,488 dollars), while it cost 255 pounds (298 English clubs receive huge funds from foreign our stadium paying between 10 to 12 euros, but Dortmund UK Fan club said. “Football is a grass- euros, 385 dollars) to watch relegated Wigan investors, with wealthy figures from Russia, the we still have sporting success is interesting for the roots sport, it should be for everyone and I am sick Athletic. The Bundesliga is now broadcast in 150 Middle East and Asia filling various clubs’ coffers, English media.” There is huge pride in Germany at of corporates coming in. “The likes of Arsenal countries, but still falls behind the EPL in terms of leading to three Champions League winners having two teams in the final, with German charging over 1,000 pounds for a season ticket is global popularity, although in terms of value-for- (Liverpool in 2005, Manchester United in 2008 and Chancellor Angela Merkel to attend. “It’s fantastic disgusting.” — AFP